You Wouldn't Want to Be Guy Fawkes

The place is Tudor England and the stakes are deadly. As a young servant in Yorkshire, you find yourself in a country split by religion and suspicion - where Catholic 'Recusants' must worship in secret and government spies are always listening. When Guy Fawkes leaves for Europe to fight with Catholic armies, you go too, learning how gunpowder and explosives work... and just how dangerous they are in the wrong hands. Back in London, hopes of greater freedom under the new King James are crushed, and a group of desperate men hatch a terrifying plan: blow up Parliament, kill the king and change the future of England.

Through a highly readable second-person narrative, the reader is placed directly into the heat of the action in this famous plot. Packed with 'handy hints', timelines and vivid scene-setting, readers experience the plotting, the close calls and the catastrophic failure of the conspiracy right through to interrogation, imprisonment and the plotters' grim fates. A glossary and index support confident curriculum use and independent reading.