Antonia Fraser has shed much light on one of the most controversial episodes in English history - Martin Jacques * Observer * An awe-inspiring tale. She writes with verve and imagination - Kenneth Baker * Daily Telegraph * Fraser's meticulously researched book is an excellent read. This is one such book - Amanda Foreman * Independent * It has a fine narrative flow, for Antonia Fraser recognises that history is essentially a story, and a gripping one at that. The result is a narrative that is clear, balanced, and builds to its denouement with a sense of pace and tension worthy of a John le Carre novel - John Adamson * Sunday Telegraph * Every few years a work of history appears that succeeds in connecting its subject to the deeper questions troubling modern society. a judicious and very readable account - Hugh Trevor-Roper * Literary Review * Told with impressive scholarship and panache. According to Fraser, it was an event that did happen (and was not fabricated by the existing government, as argued by what she refers to as 'No-Plotters' in subsequent. The work is a history of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. She has published two volumes of memoirs: Must You Go?, celebrating her life with Harold Pinter and My History: a Memoir of Growing Up.Antonia Fraser has written an excellent book which unravels the whole story of the plot, exploring the background, keeping close to the evidence, and, above all, bringing the characters to life. The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 is a 1996 book by Antonia Fraser published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The Gunpower Plot of 1605 is one of the most commemorated events in English. She has six children by her first marriage to Sir Hugh Fraser MP and eighteen grandchildren. The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 book. Antonia Fraser is the eldest child of the Labour politician and prison reformer Lord Longford and the historical biographer Elizabeth Longford. She was made DBE in 2011 for her services to literature.

Among the many awards she has received are the Wolfson Award for History the James Tait Black Prize for Biography the Crimewriters’ Non-Fiction Gold Dagger the Franco-British Society Literary Award, and the Norton Medlicott Medallion of the Historical Association. Since 1969 Antonia Fraser has written nine acclaimed historical works which have been international best-sellers including Mary Queen of Scots (1969) Charles II (1979) The Warrior Queens (1988) The Gunpowder Plot (1996) and Love and Louis XIV (2006).Antonia Fraser has also written eight crime novels and two books of short stories featuring Jemima Shore Investigator.

The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser