With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings to life the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot.
'Told with impressive scholarship and panache ...The result is a narrative that is clear, balanced, and builds to its denoument with a sense of pace and tension worthy of a John le Carre novel'— Sunday Telegraph
Winner of the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction
Robert Powell was Jesus in Franco ZefHreWi's Jesus of Nazareth. Television appearances include Jude the Obscure and The Detectives. Films include Harlequin and Imperative. Theatre credits include Travesties at the RSC, Sherlock Holmes — The Musical with the Bristol Old Vic, Kind Hearts and Coronets (national tour) and a two-hander with Susannah York called Double Double.
Author : Cokie Roberts
Peformed By : Cokie Roberts
Published By : Harper Collins US
Runtime : 6 hours
Type : American
Social & Economic
Biographical
Historical
Women
$29.95 $16.95
Cokie Roberts brings to life the women who raised our nation. More info... |
Author : Plato
Peformed By : Full Cast Production
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 4 hours 40 minutes
Type : Philosophy
Ancient
Biographical
Historical
$18.75
The trial and death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history. More info... |
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Peformed By : Barrett Whitener
Published By : Simon & Schuster
Runtime : 22 hours
Type : American
Pre 1900
Adventurers & Explorers
Historical
$59.95 $29.95
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies. More info... |
Author : Simon Winchester
Peformed By : Simon Winchester
Published By : Harper Collins US
Runtime : 10 hours
Type : Historical
Biographical
$39.95 $21.95
From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology. More info...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography
Biographical
Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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