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C.S. Lewis - A biography by A N Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | 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
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | 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
Hitler: A Short Biography by A. N. Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
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
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 AUD
Category: New 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
The Elizabethans by A N Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The acknowledged master of the all-encompassing single volume of history demonstrates the profound impact the Elizabethan age has had on contemporary Britain. With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study of The Victorians, A. N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It w ...Show more
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died. Although he specified an unpretentious funeral, it was ine ...Show more
The Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is A. N. Wilson's first novel for five years that tells the epic story of the Wedgwood dynasty. In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy ...Show more
The Queen by A. N. Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books | Reading Level: General Adult
Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous critical and commercial success, turns his clear eye to our own Queen, Elizabeth II, as she turns 90. In this unusual and vibrant examination of the life and times of Britain's most iconic living f ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original wo ...Show more
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