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After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
$36.99 NZD
$42.00 (11% off)
Category: Natural 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
$32.99 NZD
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
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
$34.99 NZD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
Confessions - A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
"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
Hitler: A Short Biography by A. N. Wilson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures
Lilibet: The Girl Who Would be Queen by A. N. Wilson
$22.99 NZD
Category: History
A celebration of HRH, Queen Elizabeth II: one of the most remarkable rulers of our age.
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
For 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 trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. But while Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, it was Princ ...Show more
Prince Albert - The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The magnificent and definitive biography of Prince Albert, by one of Britain's best biographers and the author of Victoria: A Life.
Resolution by A. N. Wilson
$13.79 NZD
$22.99 (40% off)
Category: Discounted Non-Fiction (selected titles) at 40% off RRP | Reading Level: very good
A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration.Wilson's protagonist, witness to Cook's brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist ...Show more
Resolution: A Novel of Captain Cook's Adventures of Discovery to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, Through the Eyes of George Forster, the Botanist on Board His Ship by A. N. Wilson
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration. Wilson's protagonist, witness to Cook's brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist ...Show more