Reissued on the 40th anniversary of its first publication Antonia Fraser is one the world's best known historians and was made CBE in 1999 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS won the James Tait Prize It has been translated into nine languages THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII sold over 150,000 copies in hardback alone Sofia Coppola's movie MARIE ANTOINETTE starring Kirsten Dunst is based on Antonia Fraser's biography 'Lady Antonia Fraser tells Mary's story movingly and yet with scholarship, insight and balance. It is the sort of biography of Mary which has long been needed' Scotsman 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' Sunday Times 'This is a fine biography, sympathetic without sentimentality, and with a keen awareness of the texture of its subject's world' Literary Review 'Fraser writes with fluent flair' Sunday Telegraph 'Antonia Fraser long ago mastered the art of writing meticulous history so that it reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times
Reissued on the 40th anniversary of its first publication Antonia Fraser is one the world's best known historians and was made CBE in 1999 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS won the James Tait Prize It has been translated into nine languages THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII sold over 150,000 copies in hardback alone Sofia Coppola's movie MARIE ANTOINETTE starring Kirsten Dunst is based on Antonia Fraser's biography 'Lady Antonia Fraser tells Mary's story movingly and yet with scholarship, insight and balance. It is the sort of biography of Mary which has long been needed' Scotsman 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' Sunday Times 'This is a fine biography, sympathetic without sentimentality, and with a keen awareness of the texture of its subject's world' Literary Review 'Fraser writes with fluent flair' Sunday Telegraph 'Antonia Fraser long ago mastered the art of writing meticulous history so that it reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times
Antonia Fraser has written many acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers. She has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the St Louis Literary Award and CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger. Antonia Fraser was made CBE in 1999. She is married to the playwright Harold Pinter and lives in London.
In this classic, very readable biography, now available in a new
edition, Antonia Fraser does full justice to a fascinating
woman.
*WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY*
More books have been written about Mary, Queen of Scots than almost
any other being, yet few have matched Fraser's for elegance,
sophistication and soul.
*HERALD*
Mary's tragic story...is told with authority and compassion.
*CHOICE*
The poignant descriptions of her long imprisonment are both moving
and detailed and reveal just why the book became an international
bestseller.
*HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER*
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