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After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
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
$30.00 AUD
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
C.S. Lewis - A biography by A N Wilson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary
C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the clever child from the
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
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
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers?In this bold new life - the first single volume biography in twenty-five years - A. N. Wilson, the acclaime ...Show more
Confessions - A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... Stephen Fry Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his ca ...Show more
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
$43.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love (sacred and profane) and his life in Grub Street - as a prolific writer. Before he came to London, as one of the "Best of ...Show more
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem 'Ulysses' on lines from the Inferno and Byron chastised an 'Ungrateful Fl ...Show more
Hitler: A Short Biography by A. N. Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures
Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II by A.N. Wilson
$27.95 AUD
$30.00 (6% off)
Category: History
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
Prince Albert - The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The magnificent and definitive biography of Prince Albert, by one of Britain's best biographers and the author of Victoria: A Life.
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$70.00 AUD
Category: British
In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince AlbertFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trus ...Show more