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God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
Jessie Childs
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Description for God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
Paperback. A woman awakes in a prison cell. She has been on the run but the authorities have tracked her down and taken her to the Tower of London - where she is interrogated about the Gunpowder Plot. The woman is Anne Vaux - one of the ardent, brave and exasperating members of the aristocratic Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 394.
*Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize*
*Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction*
*A Sunday Times Book of the Year*
*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year*
*A Times Book of the Year*
*An Observer Book of the Year*
A woman awakes in a prison cell.
She has been on the run but the authorities have tracked her down and taken her to the Tower of London - where she is interrogated about the Gunpowder Plot.
The woman is Anne Vaux - one of the ardent, brave and exasperating members of the aristocratic Vauxes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784700058
SKU
V9781784700058
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Ref
99-99
About Jessie Childs
Jessie Childs was born in London in 1976 and read history at Brasenose College, Oxford, where she took a first. Her first book Henry VIII’s Last Victim won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Her second book God’s Traitors was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book Prize, and won the PEN ... Read more
Reviews for God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
A triumph of story-telling, backed by first-rate research
Antonia Fraser Absorbing, exciting and relevant
Ben MacIntyre
The Times Book of the Week
Richly packed, absorbing... A parade of extraordinary characters
Simon Callow
Guardian
Thrilling
New Statesman
God’s Traitors, with its crisp prose and punctilious scholarship, brilliantly recreates a world of heroism ... Read more
Antonia Fraser Absorbing, exciting and relevant
Ben MacIntyre
The Times Book of the Week
Richly packed, absorbing... A parade of extraordinary characters
Simon Callow
Guardian
Thrilling
New Statesman
God’s Traitors, with its crisp prose and punctilious scholarship, brilliantly recreates a world of heroism ... Read more