English Civil War
A Ship for the King
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Having first gone to sea at the age of sixteen, spending the better part of forty years in various nautical posts, and then ...Read Review
Accidents of Providence
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Set in England during Cromwell’s interregnum, Accidents of Providence centers on Rachel Lockyer, a glove maker’s apprentice accused of murdering her ...Read Review
The September Queen
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Jane Lane, daughter of an affluent Royalist family during Cromwell’s Commonwealth, longed for adventure over respectable marriage. This she found when the ...Read Review
Cavalier Queen
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In 1624 Henrietta Maria, Princess of France, was betrothed to Charles, future King of England as Charles I. Amongst the English delegates sent over ...Read Review
Fox: Cromwell’s Spy
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John Fox is an expert scout, taking the practice into a sort of espionage where he can gain information in towns as well ...Read Review
Devil’s Charge
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When I was at school our history books gave the impression that the English Civil War was a rather gentlemanly affair between romantic ...Read Review
A Corruptible Crown
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The title is a quote from Charles II’s last speech, though the king makes no appearance in the story. Chapters alternate between ...Read Review
The World Turned Upside Down
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The story opens in mid 17th-century England with Elizabeth Clark witnessing the death of her father at a clandestine church meeting when a ...Read Review
Reprobates
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There is a large body of writing about the English Civil War, the events leading up to it and the Cromwellian aftermath. However, ...Read Review
The Preacher’s Bride
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Elizabeth Whitbread is a young Puritan woman living in Anglican England during the year 1659. At the opening of the novel, Elizabeth is attending ...Read Review