Second Hand Non-Fiction

Drawing on the work of the Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755), "Memoirs", Le Roy Ladurie offers...

Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of...

For centuries the world has continued to change and expand around us. We see further,...

At the age of six, Kerry McGinnis loses her mother. Her father, left with four...

This book is a brilliant and timely analysis of the complex issues raised by the...

In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote's "Black and White...

The bestselling author of VAGINA illuminates a dramatic history - how a single English law...

As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award...

In the late 1930s, as Europe moved toward war, the peaceful kingdom of Norway found...

IN NICOLO'S SMILE, Maurizio Virali brings to life the fascinating writer who was the founder...

During the last half of the nineteenth century, many of the country's most celebrated museums...

This major work, the result of years of careful study and analysis, places Wolfgang Amadeus...

Based on the TV series of the same name, this book identifies and teases out...

Mikhail Gorbachev and Daisaku Ikeda are contemporaries raised in different cultures: Gorbachev is a statesman...

One minute a little boy is playing outside his foster nana's house, the next minute,...

Ian Kershaw's biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the...

While the correspondence between the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson has been preserved and...

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he...

In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, "likely to be definitive for many years to...

The International Criminal Court, the world's first truly global war crimes court, began work formally...

Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign,...

Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did...

The third volume in the famous trilogy covers Garibaldi's role in the events of June...

When I walked through the office door each day, I knewthat almost every decision I...

An urgent investigation into warfare, good, and evil in the age of biometrics, the technology...

Emmet graduated from Melbourne University in Law in 1879 and Arts 1886. He won the...

A few weeks before the 2013 election, Lee married the love of his life. Less...

Darwin's Armanda is both a gripping adventure story and a brilliantly enlightening work of history,...