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  • The Modern Mind

    An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

    by Peter Watson ...
    "Splendidly readable and hugely informative. . . . Episode after episode from the cultural life of the twentieth century springs to vivid life." — Boston GlobeFrom Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ideas

    A history from fire to Freud

    by Peter Watson ...
    A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.'A masterpiece' NEW STATESMAN'An extraordinary new book ... This is the history of "ideas" as it has never presented before' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHIn this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Nazi's Wife

    A Thriller

    by Peter Watson ...
    Stolen gold and forbidden love intertwine in this riveting novel set during the last days of the Third Reich by "a superb writer and a masterful storyteller" ( Houston Chronicle).Walter Wolff, an officer in the US Army's art recovery unit, has been assigned to track down a priceless collection of gold coins stolen from a monastery in Austria. General Eisenhower believes the treasure could be ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Stones of Treason

    An Art-World Mystery

    by Peter Watson ...
    An art historian gets caught up in a deadly international standoff in this "inventive" political thriller ( The Guardian).What would happen if Greek extremists blackmailed Britain into returning ancient sculptures? And what if that blackmail involved not only Queen Elizabeth II, but also dark secrets about her uncle, the Duke of Windsor?When Edward Andover, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Landscape of Lies

    An Art-World Mystery

    by Peter Watson ...
    A mysterious painting holds the clues to a cache of priceless relics in this treasure hunt of "deepening suspense" à la The Da Vinci Code ( Library Journal).In financial trouble, Isobel Sadler considers selling a painting that's been in her family for generations. She can't imagine it's worth much . . . until someone tries to steal it.Mystified, Isobel turns to art dealer Michael Whiting for ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Queen's Witness

    A Mystery Where Three Worlds Collide in Violence

    by Peter Watson ...
    Queen’s Witness is a tense political thriller set on the edges of London’s criminal underworld that overlaps with Fleet Street and Westminster. After it appears that the government’s Witness Protection Programme has been broken, investigative journalist, Matthew Kent, is lured into making a dangerous error of judgment, when the ensuing spiral of violence and mystery threatens not only his life but ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century

    The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History

    by Peter Watson ...
    'Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable' THE TIMES'A tour de force ... breathtaking' SPECTATOR'A magnificent achievement' LITERARY REVIEWTERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Madeleine's War

    A Novel

    by Peter Watson ...
    A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-Day in 1944Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but he continues to serve his country by ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vatican Vendetta

    An Art-World Mystery

    by Peter Watson ...
    An ambitious American pope makes powerful enemies—from the Italian Mafia to the US President—in this fascinating thriller that "could be next week's news" ( Daily Mail).What if the unused riches of the Catholic Church were called upon to combat global poverty?Following a tragic earthquake in Italy, Pope Thomas—the first American pontiff and a transformative leader—auctions off one of the Vatican's ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Age of Atheists

    How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

    by Peter Watson ...
    **A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.**In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” and ever since tens of thousands of brilliant, courageous, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Medici Conspiracy

    The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museum

    by Peter Watson, Cecilia Todeschini ...
    The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli -- ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Capo

    A Novel of New Orleans' Most Notorious Gangster

    by Peter Watson ...
    A young Sicilian immigrant rises through the ranks of the Mafia in this "mesmerizing" novel that "gives Puzo a run for his money" ( Publishers Weekly).Sicily, 1879: After successfully smuggling a severed human ear past the police, Silvio Randazzo completes his dangerous first rite of passage—from peasant boy to Mafia soldier. The ear is a chilling ransom demand from Antonino Greco, Italy's most ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD