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  • The Elizabethans

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    "In Wilson's hands these familiar stories make for gripping reading." — The New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceA sweeping panorama of the Elizabethan age, a time of remarkable, strange personages and great political and social change, by one of our most renowned historiansA time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation, larger-than-life royalty and political expansion, the Elizabethan ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Wise and Their Works

    The Legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    The Wise and Their Works celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Great Exhibition in 2026.The men who inspired the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Henry Cole, Sir Robert Peel and above all Prince Albert himself - were at the centre of an extraordinary combination of manufacturing, commercial skill and political vision which made Victorian Britain an unparalleled success story.In this celebratory book, ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Mystery of Charles Dickens

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A "marvelous exploration" of Dickens's life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charles Darwin

    Victorian Mythmaker

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life.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 and his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confessions

    A Life of Failed Promises

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love (sacred and profane) and his life in Grub Street – as a prolific writer.Before he came to London, as one of the “Best of Young British” novelists, and Literary Editor of the Spectator, we meet another A. N. Wilson. We ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Goethe

    His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    ** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR **'W****ild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph'Exuberant and wide-ranging' - Literary Review'Passionate' - The TimesA spellbinding recreation of Goethe's life and work from one of our greatest biographers.Goethe was the inventor of the psyc... ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • Safer Faiths, Safer Followers

    Understanding and Countering Spiritual Abuse in Faith Communities

    by Wilson ...
    In Safer Faiths, Safer Followers, Tom Wilson draws on extensive, interfaith research—including interviews, focus groups, and real-life case studies—to reveal how power dynamics and unchecked authority can harm vulnerable individuals. Blending sociological insights with theological reflection, this essential resource equips clergy and safeguarding professionals with practical strategies and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Book of the People

    How to Read the Bible

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    "An erudite, elegant, and quietly impassioned plea" exploring historical and literary aspects of the Bible is "an easy, pleasurable read" ( The Guardian).In The Book of the People, acclaimed author A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prince Albert

    The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    A deeply textured and ambitious portrait of the life of Queen Victoria's husband and his influence on Great Britain, by the author of Victoria ."An engrossing biography that continues the author's long engagement with the Victorian age. . . . [Wilson's] most striking contribution, though, is a psychologically astute approach to Victoria and Albert, one that results in a persuasive and humane ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Betjeman

    A Life

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century; his collected poems sold more than two million copies. As poet laureate of England, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet best known for writing hymns of praise to athletic middle-class girls on the tennis courts led a tempestuous emotional life. For much of his fifty-year ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • After the Victorians

    The Decline of Britain in the World

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    The distinguished historian A.N. Wilson has charted, in vivid detail, Britain's rise to world dominance, a tale of how one small island nation came to be the mightiest, richest country on earth, reigning over much of the globe. Now in his much anticipated sequel to the classic The Victorians, he describes how in little more than a generation Britain's power and influence in the world would ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Our Times

    The Age of Elizabeth II

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would occur over the next fifty years, both in Britain and around the world.In Our Times, A. N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through postwar Britain. With his acute eye not just for the broad social and cultural sweep ... Read more

    $12.99 USD