by Antonia Fraser · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · tapa dura · ISBN 9780297813484
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«The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605» is Antonia Fraser's historical essay, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in hardback (476 pages).
Antonia Fraser reconstructs the conspiracy that in 1605 attempted to destroy the Houses of Parliament in London. Fraser follows Guy Fawkes and the Catholic conspirators in the context of James I's England, and analyses their religious motivations, the political climate of the time and how the plot was discovered before it could be carried out.
The work was recognised with the ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction in 1996, the year of its original publication (27 August).
For readers of seventeenth-century British history, with an interest in religion and politics as explanatory keys to the conspiracy.
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.
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