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Jemima Shore's First Case: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Antonia Fraser
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime
In this collection of mysterious and thrilling short stories, Jemima Shore is at her sparkling best as she solves the case of the Parr children in a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands and elegantly deals with a missing bride in Venice. From murders and ghostly visitors to devious plots and family f ...Show more
Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
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
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
'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
$25.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Women in History Ser.
'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 sense - formed ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$27.95 AUD
Category: History | 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
$30.00 AUD
Category: British | 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
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$28.00 AUD
Category: British
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
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
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 playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to ...Show more
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
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
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 by Antonia Fraser
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
The dramatic struggle for Catholic rights in 19th-century Britain.
The Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
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