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A Splash of Red by Antonia Fraser
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
How well do we ever know our friends? When Jemima offers to flat-sit for her friend the last thing she is expecting is threatening anonymous phone-calls on her very first night. A vicious assault by Chloe's ex-lover the next morning forces Jemima to accept that she actually knows little about her friend ...Show more
King Charles II by Antonia Fraser
$37.99 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
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 and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
$70.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
$40.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$33.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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
$33.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
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 Elean ...Show more