English Civil War
A Game of Sorrows
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Following on from the excellent The Redemption of Alexander Seaton comes the next novel following the adventures of the teacher-hero of the first ...Read Review
Fox, Cromwell’s Spy
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I was glad when I reached the end of this book, especially as I am a Royalist sympathiser. The setting is in rural ...Read Review
Alice in Love and War
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It is 1644: the English Civil War. Orphaned Alice Newcome, age sixteen, is living with her uncle’s family in Devon. When Royalist soldiers ...Read Review
Rebels and Traitors
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Like many an adolescent, Gideon Jukes is a young man rebelling against family constrictions and looking for his own path in life. He ...Read Review
Transgressions
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The author of Transgressions (the playfully pen-named Erastes) has set her novel in the England of the 1640s, a time of enormous political ...Read Review
The Best of Men
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I really wanted to enjoy this book. The size didn’t put me off, and the cover informed me that in 1642 one man ...Read Review
Newes from the Dead
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
1650. This is based on the true story of Anne Green, a young, naïve maidservant who is taken in by a young gentleman, ...Read Review
God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
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God’s Executioner opens in October 1649 with the seizing of the Charlemont fort in County Armagh and continues through to a conclusion in 1689 ...Read Review
Troublesome Thomas
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South Wales. 1645. Ten-year-old Thomas Mansell is in disgrace and he is sent away to stay with his uncle and aunt and his two ...Read Review
Sword of the Highlands
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Readers are whisked back in time in this sexy tale set in the Scottish Highlands. Magdalen Deacon, a curator at New York’s ...Read Review