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Aftershocks by A. N. Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
"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
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
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
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
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
$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
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$49.99 AUD
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
The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible by A. N. Wilson; Lauren Finger (Editor); Margaret Stead (Editor)
$23.99 AUD
Category: Religion/Spirituality
A. N. Wilson has been thinking about the Bible, and reading it, since he read theology for a year at university. Martin Luther King was 'reading the Bible' when he started the Civil Rights movement. When Michelangelo painted the fresco cycles in the Sistine Chapel, he was 'reading the Bible'. In The Boo ...Show more
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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 Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS.'Superb' Daily Mail, 'Book of the Week''Brilliant' The Times, 'Book of the Week''[A] vivid, detailed account' Guardian, 'Book of the Week''Hugely enjoyable' Daily Telegraph'Fascinating' SpectatorCharles Dicken ...Show more
The Queen by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'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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