God’s Traitors

Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England

Jessie Childs

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English

Arrow
01 July 2015

History; British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

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.

This book was longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was awarded a Sunday Times Book of the Year, a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year, a Times Book of the Year, and, an Observer Book of the Year.

By: Jessie Childs
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 353g
ISBN: 9781784700058
ISBN 10: 1784700053
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 01 July 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jessie Childs won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography with her first book Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. She has written and reviewed for several newspapers and magazines, including the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Literary Review. She took a First in History from the University of Oxford and lives in London with her husband and two daughters. This is her second book. www.jessiechilds.com @childs_jessie

Reviews for God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England

A triumph of story-telling, backed by first-rate research -- Antonia Fraser A riveting account of resistance in an age of intolerance -- Leanda de Lisle Vivid but measured...never has the actual experience of the recusants been rendered with such a wealth of searing detail...richly packed, absorbing... It is a parade of extraordinary characters and a banquet of Elizabethan and Jacobean prose -- Simon Callow Guardian (Book of the Week) 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 Absorbing history...inspired... Childs writes with a breezy, engaging style, of a period of history too often clogged by breathy romance or earnest sanctimony. She treats both Catholic and anti-Catholic bias with the proper circumspection; refreshingly, when she is speculating, she says so... God's Traitors is scholarly, absorbing, even-handed and relevant -- Ben MacIntyre The Times Book of the Week