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The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible by A. N. Wilson; Lauren Finger (Editor); Margaret Stead (Editor)
$26.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
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 Elizabethans by A N Wilson
$39.99 NZD
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 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 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 Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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 NZD
Category: History
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 Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
$36.99 NZD
Category: 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 Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion, and fa ...Show more
The Victorians by A. N. Wilson
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | 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
Tolstoy by A. N. Wilson
$59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous mar ...Show more
Tolstoy by A. N. Wilson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
In this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marria ...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