English Civil War
Reprobates
There is a large body of writing about the English Civil War, the events leading up to it and the…
The Preacher’s Bride
Editors' choice
Elizabeth Whitbread is a young Puritan woman living in Anglican England during the year 1659. At the opening of the…
A Game of Sorrows
Following on from the excellent The Redemption of Alexander Seaton comes the next novel following the adventures of the teacher-hero…
Fox, Cromwell’s Spy
I was glad when I reached the end of this book, especially as I am a Royalist sympathiser. The setting…
Alice in Love and War
It is 1644: the English Civil War. Orphaned Alice Newcome, age sixteen, is living with her uncle’s family in Devon.…
Transgressions
The author of Transgressions (the playfully pen-named Erastes) has set her novel in the England of the 1640s, a time…
Rebels and Traitors
Editors' choice
Like many an adolescent, Gideon Jukes is a young man rebelling against family constrictions and looking for his own path…
The Best of Men
I really wanted to enjoy this book. The size didn’t put me off, and the cover informed me that in…
Newes from the Dead
1650. This is based on the true story of Anne Green, a young, naïve maidservant who is taken in by…
God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
God’s Executioner opens in October 1649 with the seizing of the Charlemont fort in County Armagh and continues through to…
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