History

M.B. Boyd - City of the Plains, A History of Hastings, Hawkes Bay VUP and HCC Publisher Hardback in new condition. Dust jacket is in new condition.

The making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone...

If you follow the news, the 21st century doesn't seem to be going so well. From 9/11 to the Great Recession, the Syrian civil war, the Ebola epidemic, growing inequality,...

New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce a full democracy. Between those events, and...

Five centuries after Ramses,mhe empire seems to be hurtling towards irretrievable ruin. Piankhy the Black Pharaoh governs his kingdom from the South with wisdom and kindness. He has only one...

Whenever the grandeur of Ancient Egypt is evoked, there is one name that comes immediately to mind - Ramses II, the pharaoh who reined for more than sixty years.Here, he...

For all those who love Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, and Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders comes the worldwide-bestselling Minette Walters' compelling and fascinating historical novel of the...

The international No.1 bestselling novelist returns to her best form with this magnificent sweeping tale. Isabel Allende’s best novel since The House of the Spirits. Set in Anglophile Chile and...