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A Traveller's Companion to London by Peter Ackroyd
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel
London has witnessed everything from pilgrimages, celebrations, acts of heroism and moments of religious contemplation to riots, executions, grisly murders and disastrous fires. It is a history of work and capital, of power and exuberance, and of great creativity from a rich host of artists and writers, ...Show more
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did th ...Show more
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did th ...Show more
Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it? Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotli ...Show more
Civil War - The History of England Volume 3 by Peter Ackroyd
$23.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: The History of England | Reading Level: very good
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
Civil War: The History of England Volume III by Peter Ackroyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This is a specially edited shorter version of the title that ties-in with the 3-part series on BBC 2 shown in March 2002. It takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers and is a study of both a culture and period, a ...Show more
Dominion - A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: The History of England | Reading Level: very good
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from t ...Show more
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: The\History of England Ser.
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from t ...Show more
Foundation: A History of England: Volume 1 by Peter Ackroyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
This is the first volume in a new six-part history of England from acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settle ...Show more
Foundation - The History of England: Volume I by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: The\History of England Ser. | Reading Level: 16
The first volume in a new six-part history of England from acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more ...Show more
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
$36.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: The History of England
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaug ...Show more