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Bone-hunter,the by Holland Tom
$28.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
It is 1878 and Captain John Paley Dawkins, an English amateur palaeontologist, has staked his meager inheritance upon an expedition to find a pterodactyl, set up by geologist Sheldon Prescott. Wary of Prescott's willful daughter Lilian, they are soon forced together in a life-threatening quest.
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: Board, Bath & Flap Books | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus,' their new mas ...Show more
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times'A book for lovers of traditional, grand sweep narrative history' Sunday TimesThe definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate ...Show more
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland. Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogee ...Show more
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent by Tom Holland
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shatte ...Show more
The Persian Boy - A Novel of Alexander the Great: a Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault; Tom Holland (Introduction by); Seán Hewitt (Introduction by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest historical novels ever written'SARAH WATERS'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction. . . Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing'DOUGLAS STUART'Fierce, complex and eloquent'MADELINE MILLER'Mary Renault is a shining light'HILARY MANTEL***A groundbreaking queer classic ...Show more
The Rest is History Returns: An A-Z of Historical Curiosities by Tom Dominic; Holland Sandbrook
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns. This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history's best and most bizarre moments! Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, jour ...Show more
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Tom; Sand Goalhanger; Holland Podcasts
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Tom; Sand Goalhanger; Holland Podcasts
$24.99 AUD
Category: General History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland a ...Show more
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