Steve Harris

In this, his third book, Steve Harris continues to shed light on the dark side of Australia's colonial past. The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens: How the British Empire turned artful dodgers into child killers is the gripping real-life story of two young boys in the 19th century, sent by the British Government as impoverished and unwanted juveniles to exile...

The engrossing real-life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest. The British Empire's youngest and most distant outpost found itself at...

The Truth Behind the Stories They Don't Want You to Know America's Secret History presents an undistorted picture of the history of the United States beginning from the enactment of the Constitution. Never in one volume have so many unknown facts that disprove America's history books been brought together in a cohesive historical context, all based on verifiable information. Among...

Celebrating 50 years of Iron Maiden, this magnificent visual book, incorporating commentary by band members past and present, and never-before-seen photography from the Iron Maiden archives, chronicles the evolution of heavy metal's most prestigious band. Iron Maiden is an institution. Hailed as pioneers of a new wave of British heavy metal in the 80s, the band has come to embody...

While Jules Verne was captivating the world with his fantastical tales of space travel, a man from the British Empire's most remote colony had a dream - to bring salmon to the Antipodes. James Youl wanted to turn the world upside down by transplanting salmon, and then trout, into the Southern Hemisphere for the first time. His mission was dismissed...