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Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain by Robert Winder
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important and inspiring book, Robert Winder tells of the remarkable migrations that have founded and defined a nation. 'Our aristocracy was created by a Frenchman, Wil ...Show more
Bloody Foreigners - The story of immigration to britain by robert winder
28.00 NZD
34.99 (19% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: good
Immigration is one of the most important stories of modern British life, yet it has been happening since Caesar first landed in 53 BC. Ever since the first Roman, Saxon, Jute and Dane leaped off a boat we have been a mongrel nation. Our roots are a tangled web. From Huguenot weavers fleeing French Catho ...Show more
Open Secrets: The Extraordinary Battle for the 2009 Open by Robert Winder
39.99 NZD
Category: Golf
The Open Championship has been a high point of the British sporting calendar for 150 years, but few have been so memorable as in 2009. After four heady days on the fabled Turnberry links (one day it went see, the next it went saw) Tom Watson, an all-time great but nearly 60 and with an artificial hip, f ...Show more
The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare by Robert Winder
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the spring of 1613 Mr William Shakespeare, a gentleman farmer in Warwickshire, returns to London. It is a ceremonial visit; he has no further theatrical ambitions. But the city is still reeling from the terrorist panic of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and fate soon forces him to take up his pen again. ...Show more
The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare by Robert Winder
38.99 NZD
39.99 (2% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
* In this fascinating and thrilling novel, Robert Winder brilliantly imagines the writing of Shakespeare's missing royal play, Henry VII, and creates a suspenseful page-turner as well as a literary tour de force
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