God’s Traitors :Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
God’s Traitors :Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
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Published:
5 March, 2015
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Description
*Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize*
*Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction*
*A Sunday Times Book of the Year*
*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year*
*A Times Book of the Year*
*An Observer Book of the Year*
A woman awakes in a prison cell.
She has been on the run but the authorities have tracked her down and taken her to the Tower of London - where she is interrogated about the Gunpowder Plot.
The woman is Anne Vaux - one of the ardent, brave and exasperating members of the aristocratic Vauxes of Harrowden Hall.
Through the eyes of this remarkable family, award-winning author Jessie Childs explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England - an age in which their faith was criminalised and almost two hundred Catholics were executed.
From dawn raids to daring escapes, stately homes to torture chambers, God's Traitors exposes the tensions masked by the cult of Gloriana - and is a timely reminder of the terrible consequences when religion and politics collide.
Prizes
Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2015 (UK),Short-listed for Longman-History Today Book Prize 2014 (UK),Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781784700058 |
| ISBN10 | 1784700053 |
| Number Of Pages | 480 |
| Item Weight | 338 g |
| Product Dimensions | 131 x 197 x 31 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A triumph of story-telling, backed by first-rate research -- Antonia Fraser
Absorbing, exciting and relevant -- Ben MacIntyre * The Times Book of the Week *
Richly packed, absorbing... A parade of extraordinary characters -- Simon Callow * Guardian *
Thrilling * New Statesman *
God’s Traitors, with its crisp prose and punctilious scholarship, brilliantly recreates a world of heroism and holiness in Tudor England... It is little short of a triumph -- Ian Thomson * Financial Times *
Beautifully written... Hollywood could not have made it up -- Professor JJ Scarisbrick
Brilliant * Wall Street Journal *
Truly excellent... God's Traitors crosses the divide between popular and academic history. It raises issues of some real historical importance -- Michael Questier * Spectator *
This vivid, minutely researched and brilliantly original history is a much-needed look at the dark side of the Elizabethan age -- Dan Jones * Sunday Times *
Excellent... An engaging history of English papists, filled with memorable episodes * The Economist *
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Author's Bio
Jessie Childs was born in London in 1976 and read history at Brasenose College, Oxford, where she took a first. Her first book Henry VIII’s Last Victim won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Her second book God’s Traitors was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book Prize, and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, 2015.
Jessie frequently appears on TV and radio, and has written and reviewed for many publications, including the Telegraph, the Guardian, Literary Review, Standpoint and the Times Literary Supplement. She is one of the judges for the 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History.
She lives in Hammersmith, London, with her husband and two daughters.
www.jessiechilds.com