2021 is the 35th anniversary of Maus - the million-selling, Pulitzer-winning, father-son memoir about the Holocaust
'A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics' - Washington Post
Maus is the harrowing story of the ..
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our understanding of the world...
n this latest novel from the “dean of international intrigue” (Brad Thor) and New York Times best-selling author David Ignatius, CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an Amer..
'A pleasurable, fascinating read that is superbly researched and told' Sydney Morning Herald 'Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer 'Fascinating' Daily Mail 'A treat, elegantly spinning a forgotten story of female libera..
Between June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields. This study examines the evolving role and combat performance of the two sides' regulars d..
This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each other, the firearm is an inescapable part of Australia’s story and its characters.
But just as guns have been a part of Australia’s modern id..
100 pages of unpublished photographs from the Haydon family archives, showing the courage and composure of the Light Horse in this famous Sinai cavalry charge. With text by Trooper Ion Idriess and Lieutenant Guy Haydon, here is a chance to view the Desert battle ground of October and November 1917 a..
As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harriot--whose life was almost exactly contemporaneous to Shakespeare's--took part in the firs..