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The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers - Softcover

Hone, Joseph

 
9781529111408: The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529111404 ISBN 13: 9781529111408
Verlag: Vintage, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown

'A remarkable achievement' Spectator

In the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection.

Soon after, an anonymous pamphlet was quietly distributed in the backstreets of the city. Entitled The Memorial of the Church of England, the argument it proposed threatened to topple the government. Fearing insurrection, parliament was in turmoil and government minister Robert Harley launched a hunt for all of those involved. The printer was eventually named, but could not be found...

In this breakneck political adventure, Joseph Hone shows us a nation in crisis through the story of a single incendiary document.

'An elegant blend of scholarship and detection' Peter Moore, author of Endeavour
'Enthralling' London Review of Books
'An exciting story told with vigour' Adrian Tinniswood, Literary Review

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joseph Hone is a prize-winning writer and academic specialising in the history of the book. He studied and taught at Oxford, before holding fellowships at Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale. He is the author of The Paper Chase, which was longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown, and The Book Forger, publishing in 2024. In 2022 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures. He lives in Newcastle with his wife and son, and spends much of his time either on the coast or scrabbling around in second-hand bookshops.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529111404
ISBN 13 
9781529111408
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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