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(Hardback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9781786582423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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A celebration of HRH, Queen Elizabeth II: one of the most remarkable rulers of our age.


(Hardback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9781786580900
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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From bestselling author A. N. Wilson, a Christmas delight: the little known story of the Christmas tree that stands in Trafalgar Square each December.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780099478669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the subject of her PhD thesis.
But a progressively darker reality unfolds as we are led inexorably towards a terrible and shocking climax.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780099451877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780099723103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Fifteen years ago, Iris Murdoch asked A. This is not Iris Murdoch the Alzheimer's patient, but Iris Murdoch the witty conversationalist, the emotional chaotic and, above all, the writer.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780712606974
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2003
Publisher: Vintage
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The Jesus of Faith and the Jesus of History are two different beings, with two different stories. Wilson reappraises our readings of the Gospels and, with extraordinary insight and clarity, reinterprets the story of Jesus's birth, his life as a carpenter and the dramatic events surrounding his arrest and trial.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780099457947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Recklessly defending this corrupt dictatorship, the newspaper faces off against Father Vivyan Chell, an Anglican monk and missionary who is working to overthrow the corrupt regime.

My Name Is Legion is a savage satire on the morality of contemporary Britain - its Press, its politics, its Church, its rich, its underclass.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780712666633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1998
Publisher: Vintage
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Jesus was no Christian, and his friends made no effort to break away from Jesus's religion, Judaism.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780099547143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2012
Publisher: Cornerstone
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And when only the machinations of ruthless intriguers like William Cecil and Francis Walsingham prevented Elizabeth's kingdom from descending into anarchy and political chaos.

The Elizabethans is a panoramic, exhilarating depiction of an intensely colourful period by master-historian, A N Wilson.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780712668187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2002
Publisher: Vintage
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A. N. Wilson's sympathetic, readable and brilliantly analytical narrative places John Milton, the greatest poet of the seventeenth century, in the context of his political and religious ideas.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780712697545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2002
Publisher: Vintage
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Wilson's subtle, entertaining and frequently provocative critical biography looks back through the indifference which has surrounded Walter Scott in recent times, and the distortions of his Victorian idolaters, to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780099498377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Betjeman, a devout Anglican, was tormented by guilt about the storms this emotional triangle caused.

This book is the first to use fully the vast archive of personal material relating to Betjeman's private life, including literally hundreds of letters written by his wife about their life together and apart.


(Paperback)

By: A.N. Wilson

ISBN: 9780099451860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2003
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2003
Publisher: Cornerstone
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People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. Wilson shows us remarkable people in the very act of creating the Victorian age.