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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
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 (TV Tie-in) by A. N. Wilson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This magnificent biography is the primary source material for an upcoming major ITV series of Victoria's life. 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 ...Show more