English Civil War
The Gilded Fan
The story is set in the 1640s, starting off in Japan and then going via Amsterdam to England at the…
Crow Boy
This is the story of Tom Afflick, who reluctantly moves from Manchester to Edinburgh with his mother after his parents…
Clutter
Book 1 of a trilogy, this volume (“Clutter”) is named after one of the central characters- a homeless street child…
The Midwife’s Tale
In June 1644, York midwife, widow, and gentlewoman Bridget Hodgson’s “gossip” Esther Cooper is accused of poisoning her strict, abusive…
Royalist Rebel
Elizabeth Murray, an actual historic person, was the eldest daughter of a fiercely Royalist Scottish family. Her father was a…
Hunter’s Rage
1643: This is year three of the English Civil War, and the third book in Michael Arnold’s ‘Stryker’ series. It…
The King’s Spy
Even in a quiet backwater like Romsey, pacifist bookseller and mathematician Thomas Hill cannot entirely avoid the lawlessness and disruption of…
For King or Commonwealth
In A Ship for the King, Richard Woodman left his readers wondering which side Captain Kit Faulkner would choose at…
John Saturnall’s Feast
Editors' choice
Let me not beat about the bush. Lawrence Norfolk’s The Pope’s Rhinoceros is one of the best books I have…
Comely Grace
The principal character in Comely Grace is Abigail Mannory, daughter of a tanner in the Surrey town of Farnham in…
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