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A Gambling Man - Charles II and The Restoration by Jenny Uglow
30.00 NZD
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
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
28.00 NZD
Category: History
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
33.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
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.
Words and Pictures: Writers, artists and a peculiarly British tradition by Jenny Uglow
39.00 NZD
Category: Literature
"Words and Pictures" explores three fascinating examples of relationships between artists and writers: the illustrations of "Paradise Lost" and "Pilgrim's Progress"; "Hogarth and Fielding", a writer and artist dealing with common material; Wordsworth and Thomas Bewick, a poet and engraver working separa ...Show more
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