English Civil War
A Masterpiece of Corruption
As a huge fan of Tyler’s Ethelred and Elsie series, I was very happy to receive this to review and…
Margaret the First
Margaret Cavendish was a woman of firsts: she was the first woman to write what is now considered science fiction…
Command the Raven (An Uncivil War Series)
1643. The English Civil War, Captain Holofernes Babbit, ‘Hollie’, and his rough-and-ready troop of Parliamentarian cavalry. A seasoned soldier, Hollie…
Farewell, Cavaliers
In 1652 a wounded man wakes up under a tree with weapons and a horse nearby. He is consumed by…
The Midwife and the Assassin: A Midwife Mystery
Upon hearing of her nephew’s incarceration in the Tower, Lady Bridget Hodgson departs post-haste for London from her home in…
Red Horse
Red Horse is a novel of the English Civil War that approaches the conflict from the Parliamentarian point of view…
The Last Roundhead
These are the fictional memoirs of one Sir Blandford Candy, writing at the grand old age of 95 in 1719…
The King’s Man
This novel by Alison Stuart concerns the later part of the Parliamentary era of the English Civil War. It is…
Marston Moor
It may be that I am becoming addicted, but I think Arnold’s Stryker series gets better with each book. This…
Lament for a Siege Town
Editors' choice
Lament for a Siege Town is concerned with the siege of Colchester of 1648 by Parliamentarian forces while a Royalist…
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