English Civil War
The Wicked of the Earth
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It is October 1650, and Cromwell rules England. During the previous year King Charles I had been executed. James Archer, Parliamentary spy, whose Newcastle ...Read Review
The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare
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We meet Judith, Shakespeare’s daughter, in the Year of Our Lord 1646 in this follow-up novel to Tiffany’s My Father Had a ...Read Review
The Witchfinder’s Assistant
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It is 1643, and England is being torn apart by civil war. Former army captain John Carne, wounded at the battle of Edgehill, goes ...Read Review
Wanton Troopers
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Hugh Malahide arrives at his nonagenarian uncle’s house having deserted the Royalist cause following the battle of Naseby. Why his uncle’s ...Read Review
The Keys of Hell and Death
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Cordell’s sequel to God’s Vindictive Wrath, part of the Divided Kingdom series, is set during the English Civil War and explores ...Read Review
The Woman in the Painting
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In 1645 Islip, England, Catherine has been raising her daughter alone for the last two years, ever since the death of her husband, John. ...Read Review
Black Wood Women
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England 1649. Having fled Cromwell’s murderous foray into Ireland, little Caragh O’Fealin and her parents narrowly survive an open-boat sea crossing to ...Read Review
The Cavalier’s Oath (Lord’s Legacy)
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The book opens in May 1643, when the Civil War is still going the Royalists’ way. The book’s principal characters are all on ...Read Review
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
