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Dominion - A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England | Reading Level: very good
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: A History of England: Volume 1 by Peter Ackroyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
This is 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 settle ...Show more
Foundation - The History of England: Volume I by Peter Ackroyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\History of England Ser. | Reading Level: 16
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
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
$26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\History of England Ser.
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentInnovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaught ...Show more
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaug ...Show more
Kingdom of the Dead by Peter Ackroyd
$17.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
From Mummys to monuments, Pharaohs to pyramids - enter the Kingdom of the Dead. The original empire, Egypt, was a land of wealth and wonder, assassinations and palace intrigue. Uncovering the secrets of this ancient land, this book brings to life the wonder of the Ancient Egyptians - it's history.
London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in w ...Show more
London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
"An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd s magisterial biography of the city of London Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcast, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey historical, geographical and imaginative through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exub ...Show more
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
$29.94 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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