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A Gambling Man - Charles II and The Restoration by Jenny Uglow
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled wi ...Show more
A Gambling Man: Charles II and The Restoration by Stephen Raw (Cover Design by); Jenny Uglow
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled wi ...Show more
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars - but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers ...Show more
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and the dance of rhythm, and these 'nonsenses' are full of joy - yet set against darkness. Where do these human-like animals and birds and these odd adventures - some gentle, some violent, some musica ...Show more
Mr Lear - A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustratedbiography of Edward Lear, shortlisted for Waterstone's Book of the Year, and a Telegraph and Spectator Book of the Year.
Nature's Engraver : A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the eighteenth century, just as Britain fell in love with nature. This was one of the wildlife books that marked the moment, the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was fa ...Show more
Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar ye ...Show more
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
From one of our most admired writers, the gripping story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sara ...Show more
The Pinecone : The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine by Jenny Uglow
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sara ...Show more
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