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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Antonia Fraser
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
A bestselling historian's account of the Gunpowder Plot - 'History as it should be written' - Roy Strong.
The Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance with 1832, with its 'rotten boroughs' of Old Sarum and th ...Show more
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt ...Show more
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Women in History
Antonia Fraser takes a sympathetic look at the lives of Henry VIII's wives. Taking each in turn, she portrays them as women of spirit, and looks beyond their tragic ends. Paperback (B-Format)