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Cromwell : Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
37.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
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 his life and character, freed from the distortions of myth and Royalist propaganda. C ...Show more
King Charles II by Antonia Fraser
34.95 NZD
37.99 (8% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's biography captures all the vitality of the man and the expansiveness of the age.
Love Letters: An Anthology by Antonia Fraser
34.95 NZD
35.99 (2% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
A personal anthology, Antonia Fraser has chosen the letters for their emotional power, or state of love expressed. The categories include Passions, Ecstasies, Fears and Worries, Declarations and Farewells. He includes Byron, Keats, Abelard and Heloise and also the anonymous like a Japanese wife whose hu ...Show more
Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This book centres around the Sun King and his relationship with numerous and fascinating women. There was the King's mother, Anne of Austria, to whom he was devoted; his first important mistress, Louise de la Valliere, who bore him several illegitimate children; Athenais Marquise de Montespan, who acted ...Show more
Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 Valliere, Athenais de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Mainten ...Show more
Marie Antoinette : The Journey by Antonia Fraser
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'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 queen' CATHOLI ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Women in History
More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. This reissue of her biography explores all areas of her life, particularly her time in France, her marriages, imprisonment and her execution at the age of 44. Paperb ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Women in History
Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John K ...Show more
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser
60.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The subtitle of this wonderful memoir declares its contents: this is 'my life with Harold Pinter', not Lady Antonia Fraser's complete life, and certainly not his. In essence, it is a love story and as with many love stories, the beginning and the end, the first light and the twilight, are dealt with mor ...Show more
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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 evacuation ...Show more