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After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
34.99 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? T ...Show more
After the Victorians 1901-1953 by A.N. Wilson
19.99 NZD
79.99 (75% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? T ...Show more
Aftershocks by A. N. Wilson
32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
"It's unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn." Scotsman On The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unhappy, people fall in love and the seasons pass. The town of Aberdeen is no different, until the earthquakes. These seismic ripples t ...Show more
Betjeman by A.N. Wilson
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landscape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. For mu ...Show more
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Darwin was described by his friend and champion, Thomas Huxley, as a 'symbol'. But what did he symbolize? In Wilson's portrait, both sympathetic and critical, Darwin was two men. On the one hand, he was a naturalist of genius, a patient and precise collector and curator who greatly expanded the possibil ...Show more
Hitler: A Short Biography by A. N. Wilson
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures
Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her by A.N. Wilson
59.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Andrew Wilson had John Bayley as his tutor at Oxford where he met Iris Murdoch. He remained a close friend of them both throughout her life. It was at Iris's pleading in 1988 that Andrew agreed to write her biography. Bound to be controversial, Andrew pulls no punches in his view on the recent cinematic ...Show more
JesusA Life by A. N. Wilson
34.99 NZD
Category: Religion
What are the facts about the life of Jesus, as opposed to the myths, or unprovable tenets of faith surrounding the miracles, death, and resurrection? How and when did Christianity become a separate religion from the Judaism into which Jesus was born? To what extent was his power over contemporaries poli ...Show more
London by A. N. Wilson
29.99 NZD
34.95 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
A short, entertaining and passionate history of London by the bestselling author of The Victorians. The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the city of the Peasants Revolt, Dick Whittington and the great Livery Com ...Show more
London - A Short History by A.N. Wilson
49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A short, entertaining and passionate history of London by the bestselling author of The Victorians. The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the city of the Peasants Revolt, Dick Whittington and the great Livery Com ...Show more
My Name Is Legion by A. N. Wilson
27.95 NZD
34.95 (20% off)
Category: Fiction
A. N. Wilson has written a wickedly savage satire on the morality of contemporary Britain. At times shocking, at times tragic, brilliantly observed, it does for today what Evelyn Waugh did for the thirties and Tom Wolfe's Bonfire Of The Vanities did for the eighties. 'So it was that within minutes o ...Show more
Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II by A.N. Wilson
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place over the next 50 years, in Britain and around the world. In "Our Times", A.N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating journey ...Show more