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82 produkter
Marie Antoinette
Häftad, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
202 kr
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This is the only book you need to read on Marie Antoinette, one of the most iconic and divisive characters in history.''Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here' Guardian'Beautifully paced, impeccably written' Independent'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' …
Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
195 kr
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The six wives of Henry VIII- Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and catherine Parr- have become defined in popular sense not so much by their lives but by the the way their lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and …
Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations to War
Häftad, 1990
257 kr
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House that Spoke
The History of a Home
Inbunden, 2025
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
120 kr
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Lady Antonia Fraser has lived in the same house in Notting Hill for over sixty-six years. Here she shares memories of her home: a magical collection of vignettes featuring beloved pets, bombings, early years with Harold Pinter, children, books, parties and a whirl of literary London over the …
Marie Antoinette
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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''Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it''s all here ... Fascinating'' GUARDIAN ''Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don''t miss it'' INDEPENDENT ''Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate'' SUNDAY TIMES ''Superbly researched ... the definitive work on the ill-fated …
King Charles II
Häftad, 2007
201 kr
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Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660.Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia …
Gunpowder Plots
A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night
Av Antonia Fraser, Brenda Buchanan m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
170 kr
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400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a single, annihilating blast the entire British ruling class and royal family.This book draws on the …
Love and Louis XIV
The Women in the Life of the Sun King
E-bok, 2008
45 kr
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Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV''s mistresses, principally Louise de La Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de …
Gunpowder Plot
Terror And Faith In 1605
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she …
Mary Queen Of Scots
E-bok, 2010
51 kr
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''Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period'' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph '' Reads like an engrossing novel'' Sunday Times An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political …
Must You Go?
My Life with Harold Pinter
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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A unique testimony to modern literature''s most celebrated and enduring marriage. ''I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak.'' When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain''s finest …
Perilous Question
The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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The two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed. 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, an eventful and violent year that featured …
My History
A Memoir of Growing Up
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians. Antonia Fraser''s magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and ''40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that began with reading Our Island Story and her …
Cool Repentance
Häftad, 1985
320 kr
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Each of Antonia Fraser’s four Jemima Shore mysteries has enlarged the audience for that redoubtable and unpremeditated sleuth. This new one is set against a theatrical background and shows all the narrative skills that have marked the works of its distinguished author along with an ever-increasing …
Splash of Red
Häftad, 1984
320 kr
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Back in print—Antonia Fraser's third Jemima Shore mystery, in which the intrepid and glamorous detective confronts sinister doings in a Bloomsbury penthouse. Everyone loved Chloe Fontaine. Tiny and exquisitely pretty, her fragile looks hid a considerable talent as a novelist. She had had a series …
Quiet as a Nun
A Jemima Shore Mystery
Häftad, 1998
279 kr
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When a murder takes place in a secluded tower at Blessed Eleanor's Convent in Sussex and the victim is an old school friend, Britain's most popular TV reporter Jemima Shore finds herself in the middle of a disturbing puzzle. The dead woman, a nun, was to inherit one of the largest fortunes in …
Oxford Blood
A Jemima Shore Mystery
Häftad, 1998
320 kr
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In this tale Jemima is reluctantly shooting a TV exposé — "Golden Lads and Girls" — on the exotic lifestyles of overprivileged undergraduates. Among them is Lord Saffron, the wealthy, twenty-year-old heir to the former foreign secretary. When a confession by a dying midwife throws Saffron's birth …
Jemima Shore's First Case
And Other Stories
Häftad, 1987
288 kr
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There are five Jemima Shore tales, including her first case, which took place when she was fifteen and still at her convent school, the school featured later in Jemima's career in Quiet as a Nun. Jemima is at her sparkling best as she solves the case of the Parr children in a remote corner of the …
Wild Island
Häftad, 1980
288 kr
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Here, Jemima Shore, investigator and TV personality, arrives at Inverness Station for a Highland holiday. The sun is shining. Paradise, she thinks. But at that moment, she hears a voice: "All this way for a funeral."So begins an adventure far removed from Jemima's visions of heather-covered hills, …
Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men
Häftad, 2008
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
224 kr
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The bestselling historian's biography of a decisive figure in England's history.No Englishman has made more impact on the history of his nation than Oliver Cromwell; few have been so persistently maligned in the folklore of history. The central purpose of Antonia Fraser's book is the recreation of …
Gunpowder Plot
Terror And Faith In 1605
Häftad, 2007
173 kr
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Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she …
Love and Louis XIV
The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Häftad, 2007
192 kr
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Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de …
Must You Go?
My Life with Harold Pinter
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
157 kr
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A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.'I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak.'When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest …
Perilous Question
The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832
Häftad, 2014
173 kr
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The two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed.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, an eventful and violent year that featured …
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave
E-bok, 2014
79 kr
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A collection of Antonia Fraser''s compelling stories exploring the dark hearts and lethal secrets of criminals. This collection features the tale of the jealous wife who engineers revenge for the lovers who wronged her.
