English Civil War
Trust: The Anatomy of a Marriage
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Bedfordshire, 1649: This portrait of a marriage is based on the true story of Dorothy Osborne, wife of Sir William Temple, employer of a ...Read Review
The Village Healer’s Book of Cures
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England, 1646. Mary Fawcett, widow and caregiver for her eight-year-old brother, provides healing recipes for her village. Mysteriously, she is also able to feel ...Read Review
He Wears A Blue Bonnet
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Malky Dalgleish is a Scots lad caught up in the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 between Cromwell’s troops and the Covenanters. The dispirited ...Read Review
The Revels
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It is 1645, towards the end of the first Civil War. When his brother dies, Nicholas Pearce is ordered by his father to be ...Read Review
The Tawny Sash
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In December 1643, Sir Henry Lucie, Assistant Secretary to King Charles I’s Council of War, is beside himself. Capt. Gabriel Vaughan has been ...Read Review
God’s Vindictive Wrath: 1 (Divided Kingdom)
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1642 Warwickshire. Francis Reeve looks up to the hill carving, the Red Horse, and down upon the king’s forces, among whom is his ...Read Review
Act of Oblivion
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This novel tells the story of the hunt for the regicides of Charles I, principally Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, William Goffe. Whalley ...Read Review
A Diamond in the Dust: The Stuarts: Love, Art, War: 1
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London, 1649: This novel opens with Charles Stuart’s walk towards the scaffold, through the Palace of Whitehall, remembering the paintings that used to ...Read Review
The Leviathan
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This book starts with some beautiful writing and has a great sense of place and time. We are at the end of 1643, and ...Read Review
Henrietta Maria: The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation
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This biography is an absorbing, well-written examination of the life and influence of one of Britain’s most reviled consorts, Henrietta Maria, wife ...Read Review
