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A Gambling Man - Charles II and The Restoration by Jenny Uglow
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
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
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
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
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
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.
Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow
$40.00 AUD
Category: Art
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
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was bound ...Show more
The Pinecone : The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine by Jenny Uglow
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
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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