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The Elizabethans by A. N. Wilson
29.99 NZD
Category: History
England under Elizabeth I: A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block. But it was also an age that encouraged literary geniu ...Show more
The Elizabethans by A N Wilson
19.99 NZD
39.99 (50% off)
Category: History | 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 Gnostic Gospels by N A
19.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Sacred Texts Ser.
A superb series of compact, beautifully presented editions of sacred texts selected from the major writings of the world's spiritual traditions in reliable and accessible translations. and values, an urge to break free from the orthodoxies of our own cultural heritage and to explore beyond its frontiers ...Show more
The King and the Christmas Tree - A Heartwarming Story and Beautiful Festive Gift for Young and Old Alike by A. N. Wilson
22.99 NZD
Category: History
From bestselling author A. N. Wilson, a Christmas delight: the little known story of the Christmas tree that stands in Trafalgar Square each December.
The Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical 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
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
The Tabitha Stories by A.N. Wilson
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
This picture book has five stories about Tabitha, a beautiful tabby kitten. To Tabitha, the world is full of mysteries - the strange
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
85.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. Here are the poor and obscure as well as the lofty and famous - each in the very act of creating the Victorian age. Hardb ...Show more
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
85.00 NZD
Category: History
We live in the world which the Victorians created. The 'global village' is a Victorian village. Their two great inventions go hand in hand: industrial capitalism, and imperialism. Historians in the past have tended to describe these two great facts in ideological, rather than in personal terms. A. N. Wi ...Show more
The Victorians by A. N. Wilson
34.95 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. The "global village" is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with t ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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