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A Jealous Ghost by A.N. Wilson
Category: Fiction
There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James' Turn of the Screw, the subject of her Phd thesis.
A Jealous Ghost by A. N. Wilson
Category: Fiction
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. There is her decision, almost casually taken, to leave her studies for a temporary job as a nanny in a large co ...Show more
After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
Category: History
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? T ...Show more
After the Victorians 1901-1953 by A.N. Wilson
Category: Military
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? T ...Show more
Aftershocks by A. N. Wilson
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
Aftershocks by A. N. Wilson
Category: Fiction
A stunning, powerfully moving novel of faith and humanity, temptation and transgression from literary tour de force, A.N. Wilson. 'It's unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn.' - ScotsmanOn The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unha ...Show more
Betjeman by A.N. Wilson
Category: Biography Memoir
John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landscape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The po ...Show more
Betjeman by A.N. Wilson
Category: Biography Memoir
John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landscape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. For mu ...Show more
C.S. Lewis - A biography by A N Wilson
Category: Biography
C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the clever child from the
C. S. Lewis Biography by A. N. Wilson
Category: Biography | Series: Flamingo Ser.
C.S.Lewis was a prolific writer and a man capable of inspiring both devotion and hostility. This book charts the progress of Lewis from Ulster to Oxford where he was a fellow of Magdalen College for the greater part of his adult life. The author describes Lewis' unwilling conversion to Christianity, the ...Show more