God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests & the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot by Alice Hogge Read Free Book Online
Authors: Alice Hogge
Tags: Non-Fiction
Andrew Hunter-Blair; Philip Hogge; Simon and Suzie Fordham; Emma Höglund; Gavin and Ann Marie Hogge; Fred and Kay Hogge; Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird; Andrew Green; Richard Baron; Hywel Morgan; Alex Baillie-Hamilton; Outlook; Robert and Fiona Maida; Wanda Whiteley; Corinna Arnold.
Especial thanks go to Jane Bradish Ellames; to Amanda Russell; to my agent Stephanie Cabot, and all at William Morris; to all at HarperCollins, in particular Arabella Pike, Terry Karten, Kate Hyde and Annabel Wright; to Paul Baggaley, Essie Cousins and Sarah O’Reilly at Harper Perennial; to Joyce Hogge and Dan Goode.
And if without the help of those above I would never have completed this book, then without the help of Nicholas Fordham I should never have begun it. To him I express my deepest gratitude.
About the Author
A LICE H OGGE was educated at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She lives in London. This is her first book.
From the reviews of God’s Secret Agents :
‘Hogge’s sympathetic portrait of the Jesuit mission to England is set thrillingly among dangers with a star cast of characters…excellently researched and beautifully written; impossible to put down’
A. C. G RAYLING , Financial Times
‘Compelling storytelling’
Observer
‘Hogge has skillfully digested a century of Catholic scholarship and has woven it into a gripping tale; a book that will open for many readers a window into a neglected aspect of a cruel and colourful age’
E AMON D UFFY , New York Review of Books
‘Hogge’s absorbing narrative reads like a historical novel but it was no fiction’
Guardian
‘Lucidly argued…Hogge brings the characters vividly to life’
Daily Express
‘Effectively captures the difficulties of living as a member of a persecuted minority in England in the decades preceding the Gunpowder Plot’
Daily Telegraph
‘Fully alive to the drama of all the Catholic martyrs’ lives. The book opens with the secret landing of two young Jesuit priests on the Norfolk coast, and Alice Hogge is brilliant at evoking the climate of suspicion and fear that met them’
D AVID C RANE , Spectator
‘An extraordinarily moving story…of persecution, flight, desperate endurance and heroic existence’
M ELANIE M C D ONAGH , Tablet
‘A vivid picture of the stresses of operating in secret, under false identities, in constant fear of betrayal’
Sunday Times
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Copyright
Harper Perennial An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 77-85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith London w6 8JB
www.harperperennial.co.uk
This edition published by Harper Perennial 2006
FIRST EDITION
First published by HarperCollins Publishers 2005
Copyright © Alice Hogge 2005
PS section copyright © Travis Elborough 2006, except ‘The Certainty of Chance’ by Alice Hogge © Alice Hogge 2006.
PS™ is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Alice Hogge asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN-13 978-0-00-715638-2
ISBN-10 0-00-715638-3
Set in Linotype Minion with Janson display by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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EPub Edition © AUGUST 2009 ISBN:978-0-007-34613-4
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired
Especial thanks go to Jane Bradish Ellames; to Amanda Russell; to my agent Stephanie Cabot, and all at William Morris; to all at HarperCollins, in particular Arabella Pike, Terry Karten, Kate Hyde and Annabel Wright; to Paul Baggaley, Essie Cousins and Sarah O’Reilly at Harper Perennial; to Joyce Hogge and Dan Goode.
And if without the help of those above I would never have completed this book, then without the help of Nicholas Fordham I should never have begun it. To him I express my deepest gratitude.
About the Author
A LICE H OGGE was educated at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She lives in London. This is her first book.
From the reviews of God’s Secret Agents :
‘Hogge’s sympathetic portrait of the Jesuit mission to England is set thrillingly among dangers with a star cast of characters…excellently researched and beautifully written; impossible to put down’
A. C. G RAYLING , Financial Times
‘Compelling storytelling’
Observer
‘Hogge has skillfully digested a century of Catholic scholarship and has woven it into a gripping tale; a book that will open for many readers a window into a neglected aspect of a cruel and colourful age’
E AMON D UFFY , New York Review of Books
‘Hogge’s absorbing narrative reads like a historical novel but it was no fiction’
Guardian
‘Lucidly argued…Hogge brings the characters vividly to life’
Daily Express
‘Effectively captures the difficulties of living as a member of a persecuted minority in England in the decades preceding the Gunpowder Plot’
Daily Telegraph
‘Fully alive to the drama of all the Catholic martyrs’ lives. The book opens with the secret landing of two young Jesuit priests on the Norfolk coast, and Alice Hogge is brilliant at evoking the climate of suspicion and fear that met them’
D AVID C RANE , Spectator
‘An extraordinarily moving story…of persecution, flight, desperate endurance and heroic existence’
M ELANIE M C D ONAGH , Tablet
‘A vivid picture of the stresses of operating in secret, under false identities, in constant fear of betrayal’
Sunday Times
Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.
Copyright
Harper Perennial An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 77-85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith London w6 8JB
www.harperperennial.co.uk
This edition published by Harper Perennial 2006
FIRST EDITION
First published by HarperCollins Publishers 2005
Copyright © Alice Hogge 2005
PS section copyright © Travis Elborough 2006, except ‘The Certainty of Chance’ by Alice Hogge © Alice Hogge 2006.
PS™ is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Alice Hogge asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN-13 978-0-00-715638-2
ISBN-10 0-00-715638-3
Set in Linotype Minion with Janson display by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © AUGUST 2009 ISBN:978-0-007-34613-4
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired
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