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A History of England in 100 Places : From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part ex ...Show more
A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part ex ...Show more
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
As comprehensive as it is engaging, John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice is a complete history of "the most beautiful and magical of cities." This necessary volume traces the rise of Venice from its fifth-century origins through 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand-year-old Republic.
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
"A Short History of Byzantium" is renowned historian, and author of "A History of Venice", John Julius Norwich's classic history of Byzantium. Constantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody centuries, the Byzantine Empire became a beacon of ...Show more
An English Christmas by John Julius Norwich
$27.99 NZD
Category: Gift Books
'If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.' This year go carol-singing in the Cotswolds with Laurie Lee or attend church with a grumpy Sam ...Show more
Darling Monster - The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 by Diana Cooper; John Julius Norwich (ed.)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
'Please, darling monster, write as often as you can. It's so sad waiting for letters that don't come and are not even written. I love my darling boy. Don't treat me so badly again or I'll have your lights and liver when I get home.' 19 November 1939 Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, society darling, ...Show more
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were ...Show more
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were ...Show more
France - A History from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
"...This book is written in the belief that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably little knowledge of French history. We may know a bit about Napoleon or Joan of Arc or Louis XIV, but for most of us that's about it. In my own three schools we were taught only about the battles we won: ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy str ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$16.79 NZD
$27.99 (40% off)
Category: Discounted Non-Fiction (selected titles) at 40% off RRP
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPH I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel cross ...Show more
Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich
$27.99 NZD
Category: Film, TV & Theatre
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare - when the crown was constantly contested, alliances were made and broken, and the people ro ...Show more