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Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
26.00 NZD
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
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
37.00 NZD
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
Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it? Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotli ...Show more
Civil War - The History of England Volume 3 by Peter Ackroyd
25.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
Civil War: The History of England Volume III by Peter Ackroyd
40.00 NZD
44.00 (9% off)
Category: History
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
Colours of London - A History by Peter Ackroyd
65.00 NZD
Category: History
In Colours of London Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colorised photographs from Dynamichrome that bring a lost London back to life.
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
32.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\History of England Ser.
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
Dominion - A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
38.00 NZD
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
Foundation - The History of England: Volume I by Peter Ackroyd
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\History of England Ser.
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 Street Art by Peter Ackroyd
26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church ...Show more
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
40.00 NZD
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
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
30.00 NZD
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