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A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins
24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a strong narrative with all the most important and interesting dates in a book that characteristically is as stylish as it is authoritative.A Short History of ...Show more
A Short History of Europe - From Ancient Greece and Rome to Churchill and the 21st Century by Simon Jenkins
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The first short, single-volume history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins tells the story of its evolution from a battlefield o ...Show more
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
22.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the rise and fa ...Show more
A Short History of London by Simon Jenkins
45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This unremarkable place - not even included in the Domesday Book - became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swel ...Show more
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital by Simon Jenkins
22.99 AUD
Category: History
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the ...Show more
Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins
39.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Discover the architectural gems that are Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations in this Sunday Times top 10 bestseller'This is a cracker . . . a beautiful book' - Chris EvansIt is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting ...Show more
Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins
49.99 AUD
Category: Planes Trains Automobiles
The railway station is a place of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is the setting for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, with its own furnishings, rituals and priests. Britain's stations are also an architecture that is little studied and much neglected. They were the 'belo ...Show more
Europe's 100 Best Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
65.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Europe's cathedrals are magnificent. They outstrip palaces and castles. They are the most sensational group of structures anywhere in the world - which everyone should 'see before they die'. They are also hugely popular, most of them absolutely packed. They are humankind's greatest creations.In Europe's ...Show more
Europe's 100 Best Cathedrals by Simon Jenkins
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
From Toledo to Moscow and Stockholm to Seville, discover the continent's finest architecture with the Sunday Times bestselling author of Britain's 100 Best Railway StationsEurope's cathedrals are magnificent. They outstrip palaces and castles. They are the most sensational group of structures anywhere i ...Show more
John Waters: Pope of Trash by John Waters (Editor); Jenny He (Editor); Dara Jaffe (Editor); Jacqueline Stewart (Foreword by); Barry Jenkins (Interviewee); Bruce LaBruce (Interviewee); Christine Vachon (Interviewee); Cindy Sherman (Interviewee); Debbie Harry (Interviewee); Edgar Wright (Interviewee); Iggy Pop (Interviewee); Johnny Knoxville (Interviewee); Kathleen Turner (Interviewee); Orville Peck (Interviewee); Ricki Lake (Interviewee); Sean Baker (Interviewee); Jeanine Basinger (Text by); B. Ruby Rich (Text by); David Simon (Text by)
125.00 AUD
Category: Film & Music
Irreverent, heartfelt, shocking and laugh-out-loud funny—a colorful celebration of the work of subversive auteur John Waters. Known for pushing the boundaries of good taste, John Waters (born 1946) has created a canon of high-shock-value, high- entertainment movies that have cemented his position as on ...Show more
The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins
22.99 AUD
Category: History
<b><i>The Battle for the Falklands </i>is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins.</b> Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home. The ...Show more
The Celts - A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins
24.99 AUD
Category: History
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times'One of the liveliest commentators in Britain, always worth reading and pleasingly contrarian' Jeremy Paxman, GuardianWho were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of h ...Show more
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