BookOffers.com.au Handpicked Australian Bestsellers & New Books

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 [...]

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 [...]

American born English author Bill Bryson took the book world by storm with his Really Short History of Nearly Everything in 2008 and the paperback is coming soon.  For now he is Seeing Further: 350 Years of the Royal Society and Scientific Endeavour charting the story of science and the visionary Royal Society at London, [...]

What makes a great city great? Much admired historian, travel writer and television personality John Julius Norwich lends his considerable skills to editing The Great Cities in History a compilation of work by his colleagues. It celebrates the complexity and customs of each city and its citizens who helped define its identity and contributed to [...]

An illuminating book, now also a brilliant six part series on BBC TV,  A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years has everyone singing its praises.  Diarmaid MacCullough is one of the world’s best and most respected historians writing in English. He has tackled with verve the gargantuan task of telling [...]

Writer Nadine Coleno, herself a fashionista, has published several books in her native French on French fashion icons. Scarves are the ultimate costume accessory in many cultures much admired for their beauty and versatility. Hermes, ancient Greek messenger of the Gods,  is delivering a message to say The Hermes Scarf: History and Mystique is [...]

In Kokoda Spirit, journalist Patrick Lindsay takes us on a journey that explores the track as it is today and how it was in 1942. With his unique storytelling he reconnects us with the past while taking us on the gruelling journey that is Kokoda.
The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia’s Alamo. If Gallipoli [...]

Gallipoli Revisited shares the story of the beginnings of the Australian War Museum and the ANZAC legend, as well as their lasting impact on the way Australians remember the 1915 ANZAC campaign.
The landing at Gallipoli has long been described as the moment that Australia proved itself as a nation; and in the years since the [...]

The Sixties is a brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era.
This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century’s most colourful decade. Many books have been written on the Sixties: [...]

First Class: Legendary Ocean Liner Voyages Around the World is a must for the cruising fan, a big bold coffee table book just perfect for the nautically inclined.
Not so long ago, magnificent ocean liners–unmatched in opulence by today’s vessels–sailed the seas from New York to Rio, Alexandria to Marseilles, and from Southampton to Singapore. In [...]