History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
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A Splendid Defiance
by Stella Riley
For two years, England has been in the grip of Civil War. In Banbury, Oxfordshire, the Cavaliers hold the Castle, the Roundheads want it back and the town is full of zealous Puritans. Consequently, the gulf between Captain Justin Ambrose and Abigail Radford, the sister of a fanatically religious shopkeeper ought to be unbridgeable. The key to both the fate of the Castle and that of Justin and Abigail lies in defiance. But will it be enough? A Splendid Defiance is a dramatic and enchanting story of forbidden love, set against the turmoil and anguish of the English Civil War.View this book -
Feud
by Derek Birks
Yorkshire, England in September 1459. As the Wars of the Roses begin and the rule of law breaks down, an old local score is being settled. The ambitious Radcliffe family strike hard against their neighbours, the Elders. There is no warning: a father is executed, a brother is butchered, two sisters are violently abducted and a household is ransacked. In a day the Elder family's world has been destroyed and nothing will ever be the same again. Only Ned Elder, a young knight, is left to fight back with the help of a few loyal companions. As the Wars of…View this book -
Forsaking All Other
by Catherine Meyrick
England 1585. Bess Stoughton, waiting woman to the well-connected Lady Allingbourne, has discovered that her father is arranging for her to marry an elderly neighbour. Normally obedient Bess rebels and wrests from her father a year to find a husband more to her liking. Edmund Wyard, a taciturn and scarred veteran of England’s campaign in Ireland, is attempting to ignore the pressure from his family to find a suitable wife as he prepares to join the Earl of Leicester’s army in the Netherlands. Although Bess and Edmund are drawn to each other, they are aware that they can have nothing…View this book -
A Greater World
by Clare Flynn
She crossed the world to marry a man she'd never met When Elizabeth Morton's father asks her to travel from England to Australia to marry a complete stranger, she thinks he must have lost his mind. This is 1920, and a woman has rights. But when her brother-in-law shatters her comfortable world, she has no choice but to travel across the world. When Michael Winterbourne, a lead miner, battle worn from the trenches of the First World War wakes up with a hangover after his engagement celebrations, he has no idea he is about to cause a tragedy that will…View this book -
Sebastian's Way:
by George Steger
Book II of the Sebastian trilogy, like Book I, is far from just a military account of the wars of the Charlemagne era. To be sure it is a tale of valor, set in the “Dark Ages” world of the 8th century. But the tale is told within a context of morality and honor - and of love. It even becomes a full-fledged epic drama as forbidden romance swelters throughout the plot. Two romantic interests from Book I, the transcendent Adela and the irresistible Adelaide, continue to be bound intimately to Sebastian. They are joined by Queen Fastrada, Charlemagne’s second…View this book -
Sheriff and Priest
by Nicky Moxey
Wimer could have become a monk. Instead, his decision to become a Chaplain – to make his way in the wider world of men – has put his soul in mortal danger. In 12th Century East Anglia, poor Saxon boys stay poor. It takes an exceptional one to win Henry II's friendship, and to rise to the job of High Sheriff of all Norfolk and Suffolk. Falling foul of the stormy relationship between Henry and his Archbishop, he is excommunicated three times, twice by Thomas a'Becket, and once by the Pope. He also falls in love with the King's Ward,…View this book -
Montfort The Early Years
by Katherine Ashe
Simon de Montfort arrives in England, a near penniless youth but with a slender claim on the earldom of Leicester. King Henry befriends him -- until he commits an unpardonable treason and flees for his life, to become in the Holy Land one of the most respected knights in Christendom.View this book -
Severed Knot-
by Cryssa Bazos
Barbados 1652. In the aftermath of the English Civil War, the vanquished are uprooted and scattered to the ends of the earth. When marauding English soldiers descend on Mairead O’Coneill’s family farm, she is sold into indentured servitude. After surviving a harrowing voyage, the young Irish woman is auctioned off to a Barbados sugar plantation where she is thrust into a hostile world of depravation and heartbreak. Though stripped of her freedom, Mairead refuses to surrender her dignity. Scottish prisoner of war Iain Johnstone has descended into hell. Under a blazing sun thousands of miles from home, he endures forced…View this book -
A Female Doctor in the Civil War
by Richard Alan
Abbey Kaplan always wanted to be a doctor. Little did she know, her first posting after medical school would be to a Civil War field hospital…working in a medical tent close to combat such that rifle and artillery rounds were always a threat. “In late August of 1862, and despite the Second Battle of Bull Run ending some hours ago, the acrid scent of burned gunpowder still hung in the muggy, hot air. Young Dr. Abbey Kaplan sat on a bench and leaned her exhausted body against a tree. After thirty-six hours of surgery, aching muscles demanded sleep. She knew…View this book -
Fly The Storm
by James Stevenson
Blanche Longhurst is a pilot in the Air Transport Auxiliary delivering Spitfires from factories to air bases around Britain during WW2. During one routine trip, bad weather projects her into a place where she must deal with the enemy face to face and indulge in activities that go against her pacifist nature. This story takes the reader into a secretive and undercover world, and poses questions about how the experience of war affects and transforms its participants.View this book
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