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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605

The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605

by Antonia Fraser (Author)

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    Hardcover 1996

    $3.42

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    Paperback 1997

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Britain's most popular historian uncovers the truth about Guy Fawkes' plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 408
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 27 Aug 1996
ISBN 10: 029781348X
ISBN 13: 9780297813484
Book Overview: Winner 1996 Crime Writers' Association Non-Fiction Gold Dagger Award
 Prizes: Winner of Crime Writers' Association Non-Fiction Gold Dagger Award 1996.

Author Bio
Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works including the biographies, CROMWELL: OUR CHIEF OF MEN, KING CHARLES II and THE GUNPOWDER PLOT (CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger; St Louis Literary Award). She has written five highly praised books which focus on women in history, THE WEAKER VESSEL: WOMEN'S LOT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND (Wolfson Award for History, 1984), THE WARRIOR QUEENS: BOADICEAS CHARIOT, THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII, MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE JOURNEY (Franco-British Literary Prize 2001), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2006 and now most recently LOVE AND LOUIS XIV: THE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF THE SUN KING. Antonia Fraser was made CBE in 1999, and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. She lives in London and is currently working on a biography of Queen Elizabeth I. She was married to Harold Pinter who died on Christmas Eve 2008 and has eighteen grandchildren.