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In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for 2010 this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery – a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets.
It is a summer’s night [...]

Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm by award winning journalist Karen Kisane is all about the dramatic day in the 2009 Victorian bushfires, when hopes and dreams were reduced to ashes by one of the most ferocious fires in Australia’s bushfire history.
It takes readers inside the ferocious, insatiable beast that was the [...]

Music takes on a new guise in a compelling story of fantastic times when Renaissance composer Geusaldo lived a life suffused with scandal. Glenn Watkins’s vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, withcraft and muder in The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth and Memory is not only about art and the artist but also the influence of [...]

Documenting our evolution has always been an important occupation. The wealth of knowledge stored in the Documents that Shaped Australia: Records of a Nation’s Heritage are at the foundation of who we are and the springboard for ideas to assist us where we are going.
Spanning more than 400 years, from the first documented sighting of [...]

Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome is an historical saga combing all the ingredients of a good epic in an historical setting one in which the protagonists decide the future of democracy while ensuring that revenge becomes the coin of the realm so that everyone, who deserves it, gets what is owing to them.
This is [...]

It took centuries for the ancient Greeks to evolve their belief that a man must be respected for his own sake. In writing about The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of The Iliad Caroline Alexander exposes a historical truth, that we can only truly reveal our humanity when conflict ceases.
The Iliad is still [...]

Laura Joh Rowlands The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte places the quiet, self effacing renowned English historical novelist Charlotte Bronte, whose works are so often overshadowed by that of her historical rival Jane Austen, in the middle of a murder mystery that will keep you enthralled to the last page.
Laura Joh Rowland’s San Ichiro novels [...]

Gill Harvey brings Ancient Egypt vividly to life for children in The Sacred Scarab an adventure about two orphans Hopi and Isis who are always getting into difficult situations. It is festival time and someone is plotting against the Pharoah and the kids have to find out who and stop him.
Fantastically atmospheric evocations of Egyptian [...]

Renowned writer and broadcaster William Shawcross has done the Queen Mum proud. In his official biography of Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother he demonstrates how the well connected Elizabeth Bowes Lyon won the public esteem in so many ways, including laying her wedding bouquet on the tomb of the unknown soldier as she left the [...]

Style and design are not usually terms we hear describing the period now known as the ’70’s. However it only goes to prove that we always need to be open minded and that in order to unveil a masterpiece we need to delve deeper than the surface of a great shag carpet to find out [...]