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Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did th ...Show more
Civil War: The History of England Volume III by Peter Ackroyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
Dominion - A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from t ...Show more
Foundation - The History of England: Volume I by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\History of England Ser.
The first volume in a new six-part history of England from acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more ...Show more
Hawksmoor (Penguin Decades) by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of ...Show more
Hawksmoor: Penguin Street Art by Peter Ackroyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Decades
'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church ...Show more
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
From the author of the bestselling London: The Biography, a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London. This is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of verything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatre ...Show more
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. "London Under" is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the ...Show more
Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered. ...Show more
Poe : A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
$21.99 AUD
Category: History
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the Ameri ...Show more
Revolution - The History of England: Volume IV by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales r ...Show more
Revolution: The History of England (Volume IV) by Peter Ackroyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the ...Show more