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From Chaucer to Churchill, from Pepys to Dickens - the great figures from London's past all make their appearance in A. N. Wilson's affectionate and p...
A Novel
Winnie and Wolf is the story of the remarkable relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years between the two ...
A Life of Failed Promises
Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, hi...
A Life
โ[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography.โ โThe Guardian When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She ...
People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundred...
A. N. Wilson's Tolstoy is a highly intelligent and accessible biography of the most famous writer in the Russian canon. In this biography of Count Lev...
A Bonfire of the Vanities for contemporary London From A. N. Wilson, the renowned historian and novelist, comes a stunningly bold new work of fiction ...
Clever, moving, imaginative and funny, this is both a wonderful adventure story, and a sly look at humans through the eyes of a cat. A cat of literary...
Sifting through 2,000 years of myth, miracle, sacred and profane texts, biblical commentary, and archaeological scholarship, Wilson overturns long-che...
The Mind of the Apostle
In his most controversial work of non-fiction to date, A. N. Wilson presents the view that what we know as Christianity today came not from Jesus, but...
The Age of Elizabeth II
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous chang...
Oliver Gold, the brilliant, ascetic writer and philosopher, has lived quietly and happily for eight years on the outskirts of London as a lodger in 12...
A novel of Captain Cook's discovery to Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, through the eyes of botanist George Forster.
A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's ...
This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis....
From A.N. Wilson, comes the story of the sentimental education of Julian Ramsey. After an agonizing (and often hilarious) passage through prep school,...
With a biographer's eye for detail and a novelist's comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri...
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Victorian Mythmaker
'Hugely enjoyable' - Spectator 'A lucid, elegantly written and thought-provoking social and intellectual history' - Evening Standard 'As a historian t...
The author argues that religion has inspired many of man's worst evils: war, prejudice, bigotry, cruelty, race hatred and fear. Without it, man would ...
The Decline of Britain in the World
The distinguished historian A.N. Wilson has charted, in vivid detail, Britain's rise to world dominance, a tale of how one small island nation came to...
er's unlikely rise to power and his uncanny ability to manipulate his fellow man resulted in the deaths of millions of Europeans and a horrific world ...
His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World
'A. N. Wilson's biography of the German polymath is wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject' - Frances Wilson, the Telegraph...
The author in this new biography of Milton sees the man whole, and in doing so enhances our understanding not only of his character but also of his po...
A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. 'Superb' Daily Mail, 'Book of the Week' 'Brilliant' The Ti...
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler offers a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth centuryโs most monstrous and in...
Outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor comes alive in this classic epic of the Scottish borderlands. The narrative follows the adventures of Frank Osbaldistone, a b...
โFor some reason, the very negative thoughts which she had during that interview with the rich-stockbroker woman in Kensington did not remain with h...
John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century; his collected poems sold more than two million copies. As poet laureate of En...
A tribute to the English writer and philosopher (1919-1999)....
In these three short stories, &รmile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillmentโromantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give...
The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coi...
The World Our Parents Knew
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the ...
This mordantly witty and profoundly entertaining novel explores the twin destinies of Giles Fox, a lecherous, twice-widowed medievalist who has lost h...
A History
In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has ...
When Fanny Williams, a successful boutique owner, tries to buy an abandoned church to use as a warehouse, she learns that its architect was Oswald Fis...
A View of Sir Walter Scott
This critical biography the indifference which has surrounded Scott in this century and the distortions of his Victorian idolators to recapture the fr...