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Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 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
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
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
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
Tudors - The History of England: Volume II by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\History of England Ser.
Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how t ...Show more
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