Gods Traitors by Jessie Childs
Explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. This book exposes the tensions and insecurities masked by the cult of Gloriana. It is a story of courage and frailty, repression and reaction and the terrible consequences when religion and politics collide.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 *
In the quality of her research and sensitive handling of issues that remain raw to this day, Jessie Childs succeeds in evoking ‘the lived experience of anti-Catholicism’ as few have done before... Childs’s language is lively and inventive... By picturing Elizabethan recusants in all their complexity, Jessie Childs has enabled them to speak for themselves at last -- John Cooper * Literary Review *
Superb and groundbreaking... It isn’t possible in the space of a review to do justice to the breadth and depth of Childs’ research and insight; but they illuminate the entire landscape of English life...a superlative, flawlessly written book... Childs’ description of an exorcism at Lord Vaux’s house in Hackney...is one of the most extraordinary things I have ever read -- Matthew Lyons, author of The Favourite
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
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847921567 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847921566 |
| Title | Gods Traitors |
| Author | Jessie Childs |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| 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) |
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