Innocent Traitor

Innocent Traitor

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780099493792
Untertitel:
Englisch
Genre:
Romane & Erzählungen
Autor:
Alison Weir
Herausgeber:
Random House UK
Anzahl Seiten:
432
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.06.2007
ISBN:
978-0-09-949379-2

The Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling debut novel from one of Britain's most successful popular historians

Informationen zum Autor Alison Weir is one of Britain's top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods. Her bestselling history books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII , Eleanor of Aquitaine , Elizabeth of York and The Lost Tudor Princess . Her novels include Innocent Traitor , Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession . She is an Honorary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She lives and works in Surrey. Klappentext Historical fiction about the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England, Lady Jane Grey. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, Jane lived a live in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Her honesty, intelligence and strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion. Zusammenfassung _____________________________________A wrenching novel about the life and death of Lady Jane Grey, one of the most complex and sympathetic figures in Tudor England, by popular historian Alison Weir: ideal for fans of Wolf HallLady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger.

Vorwort
The Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling debut novel from one of Britain's most successful popular historians

Autorentext
Alison Weir is one of Britain's top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods. Her bestselling history books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth of York and The Lost Tudor Princess. Her novels include Innocent Traitor, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession. She is an Honorary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She lives and works in Surrey.

Klappentext
Historical fiction about the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England, Lady Jane Grey. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, Jane lived a live in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Her honesty, intelligence and strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion.


Zusammenfassung
_____________________________________A wrenching novel about the life and death of Lady Jane Grey, one of the most complex and sympathetic figures in Tudor England, by popular historian Alison Weir: ideal for fans of Wolf HallLady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger.


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