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A Jealous Ghost by A. N. Wilson
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the subject of her PhD thesis. There is her decision, almost casually taken, to leave her studies for a temporary job as a nanny in a large co ...Show more
After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$79.90 NZD
Category: World 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
$33.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
C.S. Lewis - A biography by A N Wilson
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
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
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
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
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$70.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: near fine
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
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures
London by A. N. Wilson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
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
Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II by A.N. Wilson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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