The Wild Island: A Mystery
 Pretty disappointing: I read the first Jemima Shore novel and found it pretty mediocre. Still, they made a television series based on the books so I figured there must be something right about the series. Having just finished the second book in the [... more]
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
VIVE LE ROI: Excellent thorough book. Easy read full of great info on the kings personal life Maybe I have lost my ardor for this genre: I used to be fascinatged by these portraits of historical figures, but this one left me bored and skeptical. I have [... more]
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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
An 'Explosive' and Entertaining Account: As the old saying goes Remember, Remember the Fifth of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot. In the present day come November 5th we all look forward to a firework display and a bonfire on which to burn the [... more]
$26.85
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Author: Antonia Fraser Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 920 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: 2008-12-10 Release Date: 2008-12-10 [... more]
$16.95
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The Weaker Vessel (Women in History)
Amazon.com Review: Drawing from a wondrously deep well of diaries, letters, and papers from 17th-century England, the gifted historian Antonia Fraser gives the image of the "softer sex" a drubbing, plunging readers into the lives of " [... more]
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Jemima Shore's First Case: And Other Stories
Author: Antonia Fraser Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780393331875 ISBN: 0393331873 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 1987-05-01 [... more]
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
VIVE LE ROI: Excellent thorough book. Easy read full of great info on the kings personal life Maybe I have lost my ardor for this genre: I used to be fascinatged by these portraits of historical figures, but this one left me bored and skeptical. I have [... more]
$39.95
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Cromwell, Our Chief of Men
Author: Antonia Fraser Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 941 EAN: 9780753813317 ISBN: 0753813319 Number Of Pages: 1040 Publication Date: 2002-12-05 [... more]
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Amazon.com Review: In the past, Antonia Fraser's bestselling histories and biographies have focused on people and events in her native England, from Mary Queen of Scots to Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot. Now she crosses the Channel to [... more]
$39.95
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Mary Queen of Scots (Women in History)
Well written and researched - but not objective: Overall, this is a well-written and well-researched biography, although not objective enough about its subject. I appreciated the beautiful writing and the thorough scholarship of this book, although in [... more]
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Cromwell
Detailed, pro-Cromwell, and a bit too long: Cromwell is perhaps the single most controversial figure in English history. Only John and Richard III have attracted as much venom as he has, and there are still people alive today who hate him -- see some of [... more]
$20.00
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Quiet As a Nun (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
The best mystery writer since Christie!: It's odd to note that Lady Antonia Fraser, famous for her historical biographies, decided to try writing mysteries as a lark; she turns out to be the best mystery writer I have read since Agatha Christie! Possibly [... more]
$10.00
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