The Plot Against Pepys - Couverture souple

Long, Ben; Long, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571227147 ISBN 13 : 9780571227143

Editeur : Faber and Faber, 2008

Synopsis

The enthralling, forgotten story of the two most dangerous years in the life of Samuel Pepys.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James Long and Ben Long are father and son. James graduated from Oxford with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He has written eleven novels, several of which are based on historical fact. He also writes as Will Davenport. Ben graduated from the University of Bristol in 2003 with a history degree. He has directed several plays and written one, which has been performed on both sides of the Atlantic. This is his first book.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Shortlisted for the 2008 Longman History Today Book of the Year Prize An exciting, informative, at times amusing and always readable tale from one of the darkest episodes in English history. Stella Rimington, The Times It is 1679 and England is awash with suspicion. Everywhere or so it is feared Catholic agents are plotting to overthrow the king. And Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, finds himself charged with treason. Imprisoned in the Tower of London and abandoned by the embattled king, Pepys sets to work investigating his mysterious accuser, Colonel John Scott, and uncovers a life riddled with ambition, forgery, treason and murder. Using rare access to Pepys s own account of the affair, James Long and Ben Long brilliantly evoke a turbulent period in England s history and tell the forgotten story of the two most dangerous years in the life of the legendary diarist. Fascinating . . . The Longs have an eye for the telling detail which is worthy of the great diarist himself. Hugh Massingberd, Mail on Sunday A work to be enjoyed both as a powerful detective story, and as a fascinating entrée into the paranoid-populist world of politics in late seventeenth-century England. Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph The book reads like the best crime novel, yet it is based on brand new research. Leo Hollis, Scotland on Sunday

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber and Faber
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571227147
• ISBN 13: 9780571227143
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible