Antonia Fraser Books in Order
Antonia Fraser has written 40 books, published between 1954 and 2023. The first book is King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1954) and the newest is Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 40
- Published
- 1954–2023
- Pages on record
- 9,306 in 30 of 40 books
- Reading time
- 155–233 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,306 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 30 of 40 titles with a page count on record.
Antonia Fraser, born Antonia Pakenham on 27 August 1932, is a British writer of history, biography, novels and detective fiction. Fraser is the widow of Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel laureate in literature, and was known as Lady Antonia Pinter until his death in 2008. The catalogue runs to 40 books between 1954 and 2023, setting biographies and histories such as Mary Queen of Scots (1969), Cromwell (1973) and The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England (1975) beside the Jemima Shore detective novels. Subjects record kings and rulers, queens, England and women detectives.
How many Antonia Fraser books are there?
Antonia Fraser has 40 books, released between 1954 and 2023. They include 2 series and 23 titles listed outside any series.
Antonia Fraser Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 40 Antonia Fraser books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table1954 · confirmed 1/41954–1/4
- 2Pleasures & Treasures: Dolls1967 · confirmed 1/41967–1/4
- 319696131/4
- 4Robin Hood1971 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/419712561/4
- 5A History of Toys1972 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/419722561/4
- 6Dolls1973 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/41973961/4
- 7Cromwell1973 · 774 pages · confirmed 1/419737741/4
- 8Mary Queen of Scots and the Historians1974 · 14 pages · confirmed 1/41974141/4
- 9King James, VI of Scotland, I of England1974 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/419742241/4
- 10The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England1975 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/419753841/4
- 1119771761/4
- 1219781921/4
- 13Royal Charles1979 · 524 pages · confirmed 1/419795241/4
- 14King Charles II1979 · 544 pages · confirmed 1/419795441/4
- 15Heroes and Heroines1980 · 263 pages · confirmed 1/419802631/4
- 1619812591/4
- 1719822281/4
- 1819846401/4
- 1919852241/4
- 2019861921/4
- 2119872281/4
- 221988–1/4
- 231990–1/4
- 241991–1/4
- 251992–1/4
- 2619942401/4
- 27The Six Wives of Henry VIII1995 · confirmed 1/41995–1/4
- 28Faith and Treason / The Gunpowder Plot1996 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/419963841/4
- 2920001041/4
- 30The Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-GothaA Royal History of England #42000 · 104 pages · confirmed 1/420001041/4
- 312000–1/4
- 32Marie Antoinette2001 · 544 pages · confirmed 1/420015441/4
- 33Love and Louis XIV2006 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/420064321/4
- 34Must You Go?2010 · 328 pages · confirmed 1/420103281/4
- 35Perilous Question2013 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420133201/4
- 36My History: A Memoir of Growing Up2015 · 268 pages · confirmed 1/420152681/4
- 37Our Israeli Diary - Of That Time, Of That Place2017 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/420171761/4
- 38The King and the Catholics2018 · 319 pages · confirmed 1/420183191/4
- 39The Case of the Married Woman2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 40Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
Antonia Fraser books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Jemima Shore in order
10 booksWomen in History in order
4 booksA Royal History of England in order
3 booksStandalone books
23 books23 Antonia Fraser titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Antonia Fraser books in order?
You only need to read Antonia Fraser books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Antonia Fraser
Start with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1954), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Antonia Fraser book?
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit (2023) is the newest Antonia Fraser book released so far.
Is there a new Antonia Fraser book coming?
No next Antonia Fraser book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Antonia Fraser has won
Wikidata records 3 awards for Antonia Fraser. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction1996Won
- St. Louis Literary Award1996Won
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize1969Won
Antonia Fraser at a glance
- Paused
- No new Antonia Fraser title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Antonia Fraser books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 9,306 pages across the 30 of 40 books with a recorded length, a median of 258 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Antonia Fraser books, 11 of 40, were published in the 1970s.
What the Antonia Fraser books are about
31 of the 40 Antonia Fraser books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 16 of 31. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 16 of 31 books
- Biography 14 of 31 books
- Kings and rulers 9 of 31 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 6 of 31 books
- England 5 of 31 books
- Great britain, kings and rulers 5 of 31 books
- London (England) 5 of 31 books
- Queens 5 of 31 books
- Shore, jemima (fictitious character) 5 of 31 books
- Histoire 4 of 31 books
- Jemima Shore (Fictitious character) 4 of 31 books