Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History & Military

War is traditionally considered a male experience. By extension, the genre of war literature is a male-dominated field, and the tale of the battlefield remains the privileged (and only canonised) war story. In Australia, although women have written extensively about their wartime experiences, the...

From a hunger strike medal to a bidet, the Amazon rainforest to the plantations of South Carolina, Simone de Beauvoir to Beyoncé, this is the story of women as never seen before. This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more i...

Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history 'Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire.' Italy was the centre of ...