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My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
The title of Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up has a double meaning. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return'. But it is also intended as a chronicle of the progress of her love of hist ...Show more
Our Israeli DiaryOf That Time, of That Place by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In May 1978 Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser visited Israel at the time of the 30th Anniversary of Independence. It was three years after they first lived together; neither had set foot in Israel before. Based in Jerusalem, they toured many of the country s historic sites: from Bethlehem to the fortress ...Show more
Oxford Blood: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Lord Saffron, one of the young bloods at Oxford University, is heir to a considerable fortune. But while making a documentary about the exotic lifestyles of the university's over-privileged set, Jemima Shore discovers that this handsome young man, with his lavish dances and sumptuous weekend parties, is ...Show more
Political Death: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Summoned by the wayward Lady Imogen Swain, Jemima is entrusted with the diaries she kept in 1964, diaries which contain an account of her passionate affair with Burgo Smyth MP; now Foreign Secretary but then a rising young Conservative politician. With the increasingly eccentric Lady Imogen threatening ...Show more
Quiet As a Nun by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
'I lit the candle and began rather gingerly to climb up the ladder. Then I heard a distinct sound above my head. A scrape on the floor, an irregular jarring on the floor above my head, like something rocking . . .'A nun is dead - her emaciated corpse has been discovered locked in the tower of Blessed El ...Show more
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's muse, Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century s ...Show more
The Cavalier Case: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Jemima Shore Ser.
'As he turned ...he had the extraordinary impression of a man in full armour rearing up in front of him ...It was the last thing he saw, before he hurtled downwards to a certain death' An untimely death and the reappearance of a ghost lead television reporter Jemima Shore into a mysterious case of sex, ...Show more
The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829 by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
From beloved historian Antonia Fraser comes the dramatic story of how Catholics in the United Kingdom won back their rights after two centuries of official discrimination. In the summer of 1780, mob violence swept through London. Nearly one thousand people were killed, looting was widespread, and to ...Show more
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
The dramatic struggle for Catholic rights in 19th-century Britain.
The Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser
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Category: 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 Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes a key period 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 an ...Show more
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
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