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After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
$34.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics | 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
Betjeman by A.N. Wilson
$27.95 AUD
Category: 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
Betjeman by A.N. Wilson
$65.00 AUD
Category: 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. The po ...Show more
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: 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
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Confessions - A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"In Dante in Love, A. N. Wilson presents a glittering study of an artist and his world, arguing that without an understanding of medieval Florence, it is impossible to comprehend the meaning of Dante's great poem. He explains how the Italian States were at that time locked into violent feuds, mirrored i ...Show more
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
God's Funeral by A.N. Wilson
$27.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
In this work, A.N. Wilson's account shows how the decline of religious certainty in Victorian times had its origin with the 18th-century sceptics, and brought a devastating sense of emotional loss which extends to our own times.
Hitler: A Short Biography by A. N. Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: 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
$24.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
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
$69.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics | 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