Australia

The three pre-eminent early novelists of Australia, Henry Kingsley, Marcus Clarke and Rolf Boldrewood, were...

A biography of unprecedented expedition under sail The role of the sailor through history should...

The ultimate handbook for exploring Sydney's cemeteries - from crowded inner-city plots to spacious burial...

'Nottingham: The Buried Past of a Historic City Revealed' is an accessible read and the...

"My Lords, The several Goals and Places for the Confinement of Felons in this Kingdom...

Ned Kelly's tin helmet looms large over Australia's bushranging past, but what about all the...

Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and...

For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through...

We are creating society. Creating Schools reminds us that while we argue about reading and...

Great Australian Speeches brings together a diverse and often moving collection of over 50 speeches...

This is a true story of greed, courage, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death...

'This important and illuminating book provides a powerful and harrowing depiction of the inadequacies of...

Trails to Freedom is the story of a solo hike across the Alps that brings...

On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it...

Just months before the start of World War I, Winston Churchill withdrew the Royal Navy's...

The book paints a vivid picture of the society and poverty from which Blay's character...

Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Australia's highest mountains and the extraordinary diversity, rich...

This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies...

Pictorial History Hornsby is a new book in the Kingsclear Books series of pictorial histories...

The award-winning author of The Sydney Wars reveals the breadth of frontier resistance warfare. The...

The members of the Australian battalion of Gull Force endured some of the harshest prisoner-of-war...

The impact of World War I ripples through time. In this moving and essential book,...

The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer,...

The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every...

A newly updated, lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front-complete with...

Skipton, in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, has a plexus of small valleys but...

Bonnie Colne upon the hill is a town whose antiquity reaches back into the mists...

A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and...