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Aftershocks by A. N. Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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 WILSON A N
$17.95 AUD
Category: REM Science
With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, hailed as the man who discovered evolution, was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton. Eminent writer A. N. Wilson challenges this long-held assumption. Contextualizing Darwin ...Show more
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
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: Biography | Reading Level: very good
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
Hitler by A N Wilson
$12.95 AUD
Category: REM History
A ruthless dictator who saved his country from economic ruin only to nearly destroy it--and an entire people--in his quest for world domination, Adolf Hitler forever changed the course of history. In this masterful account of Hitler's life, biographer A.N. Wilson pulls back the curtain to reveal the man ...Show more
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$19.99 AUD
Category: REM History
In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince AlbertFor 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 trus ...Show more
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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 Victorians by A. N. Wilson
$39.95 AUD
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
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