A. N. Wilson is a distinguished novelist, biographer, critic and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has won several prestigious awards, including the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize (for The Sweets of Pimlico and The Laird of Abbotsford), the 1981 Somerset Maugham Award (for The Healing Art) and the 1988 Whitbread Award (for the biography Tolstoy). He has also written a volume of guinea-pig stories called Hazel, and a tale of an escaped hamster, Furball and the Mokes.
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A. N. Wilson: Stray
Clever, moving, imaginative and funny, this is both a wonderful adventure story, and a sly look at humans through the eyes of a cat. A cat of literary distinction – Naomi Lewis, Observer A.N. Wilson …
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A. N. Wilson: Hazel
Brought to life by celebrated author and animal lover A. N. Wilson, and charmingly illustrated, Hazel will capture the hearts of guinea-pig lovers everywhere. Creep under the kitchen table and join H …
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A. N. Wilson: Furball and the Mokes
Sneak behind the skirting board with Furball the trusting hamster, and run riot with the Mokes – a gang of cockney mice… It's a scary world out there, especially if you're a pet hamster w …
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A. N. Wilson: Dante in Love
With a biographer's eye for detail and a novelist's comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works o …
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A. N. Wilson: The Potter’s Hand
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION. In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for C …
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A. N. Wilson: Victoria
'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. M …
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A. N. Wilson: Tolstoy
A. N. Wilson's Tolstoy is a highly intelligent and accessible biography of the most famous writer in the Russian canon. In this biography of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates t …
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A. N. Wilson: The Book of the People
In The Book of the People 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 wri …
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A. N. Wilson: Resolution
A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration. Wi …
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A. N. Wilson: Prince Albert
Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail 'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times 'Enthralling' Daily Telegraph For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a gre …
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A. N. Wilson: The Queen
In this original and vibrant examination of the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, biographer and novelist A.N. Wilson paints a vivid portrait of 'Lilibet' the woman, and of her reign. H …
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A. N. Wilson: Aftershocks
‘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 lov …
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A. N. Wilson: C. S. Lewis
This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis.C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This ac …
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A. N. Wilson: Hitler
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler offers a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most monstrous and influential figures.In 1923, a thirty-four year old A …
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A.N. Wilson: Book of the People
From renowned historian, biographer and novelist, A.N. Wilson, a deep personal, literary, and historical exploration of the Bible. In The Book of the People, A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thi …
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A.N. Wilson: Charles Darwin
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 e …
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A.N. Wilson: Prince Albert
In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal con …
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A.N. Wilson: The Gospel According to Matthew
Recounting the birth, baptism, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, Matthew is regarded as the most ideological portayal of Jesus’s life. Some view it as a deliberate parallel to the written teach …
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A N Wilson: Charles Darwin
‘Hugely enjoyable’ – Spectator’A lucid, elegantly written and thought-provoking social and intellectual history’ – Evening Standard’As a historian trying to put Darwin in the context of his time, the …
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A N Wilson: London: A Short History
‘Engaging … As each era superimposes itself on the ones before, he conjures up the vanished human history, hidden like the rivers flowing beneath, that is so much part of London’s atmosphere’ IRISH …
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David Boucher & John Clarke: Cultural Olympians
This book is designed to explore key questions surrounding faith, philosophy, science, culture and social progress by celebrating the life and thought of cultural leaders from Rugby School (estd. 156 …
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The Four Gospels
Encouraging the reading of the Bible as literature rather than doctrine, the four central gospels are presented here in the beauty of the Authorised King James Version, with four fresh, modern introd …
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A.N. Wilson: Elizabethans
England under Elizabeth I.A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack cou …
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A.N. Wilson: After The Victorians
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 v …
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A.N. Wilson: Our Times
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 take place over the next 50 years, …
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A.N. Wilson: Jealous Ghost
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 Ph D thesis. There …
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A.N. Wilson: My Name Is Legion
The Daily Legion is a tabloid that peddles celebrity gossip and denounces asylum seekers. However, its financial survival depends on the support of a brutal African government. Recklessly defending t …
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A.N. Wilson: Winnie And Wolf
Winnie and Wolf is the story of the extraordinary relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1923-40, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagn …
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A.N. Wilson: Betjeman
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 architectu …
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A.N. Wilson: Victorians
People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson’s superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to …
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John Meade Falkner: Nebuly Coat
There have been queer tales told of that shield, and maybe there are queerer yet to be told. It has been stamped for good or evil on this church, and on this town, for centuries, and every tavern loa …
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A. N. Wilson: The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. 'Superb' Daily Mail, 'Book of the Week' 'Brilliant' The Times, 'Book of …
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A.N. Wilson: Mystery of Charles Dickens
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 r …
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Hilaire Belloc: Complete Verse
Here is the distinctly surreal world of Henry King, who perished through his ‘chief defect’ of chewing little bits of string; of dishonest Matilda whose dreadful lies led her to death by burning; and …
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A.N. Wilson: The King and the Christmas Tree
‘An unlikely hero has a master storyteller to tell his tale. The King and the Christmas Tree is a poignant Christmas treat.’ Lucy Worsley, historian, broadcaster and author Every December, a huge Chr …
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A. N. Wilson & Emile Zola: For a Night of Love
In these three short stories, Émile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment-romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. …
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A.N. Wilson: Lilibet: The Girl Who Would be Queen
The moments in life of ‘knowing’. On Bognor Beach, with Grandpa England , she had ‘known’ that he, and Papa, and she, would carry something on, something given, something bigger than themselves. Lili …
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A. N. Wilson: Confessions
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 profa …
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A. N. Wilson: Confessions
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 profa …
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A. N. Wilson: Dante in Love
For William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was "the chief imagination of Christendom." For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his i …
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A. N. Wilson: After the Victorians
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, reig …
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A. N. Wilson: Goethe
‘Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.’ – Frances Wilson, The Telegraph’Exuberant and wide-ranging’ – Literary Review’Passionate’ – The Times A spellbinding r …
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A. N. Wilson: Goethe
‘Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.’ – Frances Wilson, The Telegraph’Exuberant and wide-ranging’ – Literary Review’Passionate’ – The Times A spellbinding r …
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