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  I, Coriander

  by Sally Gardner

  In this exceptionally well-crafted tale, Coriander tells the story of her childhood in seventeenth-century London—and of her discovery that she has inherited magical powers from her mother, who was a fairy princess. But her mother’s sudden death brings on a dark time for Coriander. And after mourning her beloved mother and dealing with the disappearance of her father and the wrath of her evil stepmother,... (more)
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  The King's General

  by Daphne du Maurier

  Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca. Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a family riven by war, and features one of fiction's most original heroines. Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless - and... (more)
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  As Meat Loves Salt

  by Maria McCann

  Transplant Othello to the tumult of a country in social and political flux and en route to regicide -- England in the 1640s -- and render him uncertain about his sexuality, and you have the makings of Jacob Cullen, one of the most commanding characters in contemporary writing. As the book opens, Jacob is an educated, vigorous and dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household, who has begun to... (more)
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  The Wolves of Andover

  The Traitors Wife

  by Kathleen Kent

  In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and size and mysterious past. The two begin a courtship that suits their independent natures, with Thomas slowly revealing the story of his part in the English Civil War. But in... (more)
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  The Verneys

  A True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England

  by Adrian Tinniswood

  From the chance discovery in an attic of thousands of letters comes this fascinating story of an English family in the seventeenth century. The Verneys is narrative social history at its best.
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  Rebels and Traitors

  by Lindsey Davis

  A groundbreaking historical novel set in the English Civil War. Rebels and Traitors is a groundbreaking departure for this most admired of British authors, returning to Lindsey Davis’ first love in historical fiction, the English Civil War. Sweeping in scope and fraught with the same drama and passion, her epic novel does the same for this conflict as Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind did for the... (more)
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  God's Fury, England's Fire

  A New History of the English Civil Wars

  by M. J. Braddick

  The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War. This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: "God's Fury, England's Fire".... (more)
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  Quarrel with the King

  The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War

  by Adam Nicolson

  Quarrel with the King tells the story of the first four earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants, and allies, following their high and glamorous trajectory from the 1520s through 1650—the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history—across three generations of change, ambition, resistance, and war. The Pembrokes were at the heart of it all: the richest family in England, with old blood... (more)
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  The English Civil War

  Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain

  by Diane Purkiss

  In this compelling history of the violent struggle between the monarchy and Parliament that tore apart seventeenth-century England, a rising star among British historians sheds new light on the people who fought and died through those tumultuous years. Drawing on exciting new sources, including letters, memoirs, ballads, plays, illustrations, and even cookbooks, Diane Purkiss creates a rich and nuanced portrait of... (more)
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  Apocalypse Third Edition

  by Paul Camster

  Now with a Special Guest Preface,the details praised by fans of `Magicians Code` and `Precoded` are meshed together in a blockbuster narrative,showing how they affect events as far apart in time and distance as the English,USA & Spanish Civil Wars as well as the two World Wars and events right down to the present day and the prospect of economic and environmental ruin. The widely different approaches of... (more)
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  John Saturnall's Feast

  by Lawrence Norfolk

  A beautiful, rich and sensuous historical novel, John Saturnall’s Feast tells the story of a young orphan who becomes a kitchen boy at a manor house, and rises through the ranks to become the greatest Cook of his generation. It is a story of food, star-crossed lovers, ancient myths and one boy’s rise from outcast to hero. Orphaned when his mother dies of starvation, having been cast out of her village as a... (more)
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  The Children of the New Forest

  by Frederick Marryat

  Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest, reconciliation and eventual forgiveness. This is the first enduring historical novel for children, which conjures up as much magic today as it did on first publication. The freedom from adult constraint allied with... (more)
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  Harlequin Historical: Book 827

  Lord Greville's Captive

  by Nicola Cornick

  Years before, he had come to Grafton Manor to be betrothed to the innocent and beautiful Lady Anne--a promise that was broken with the onset of war.... Now Simon, Lord Greville, has returned as an enemy, besieging the manor and holding its lady hostage. Simon's devotion to his cause swayed by his desire for Anne, he will not settle for the manor house alone. He will have the lady--and her heart--into the bargain!... (more)
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  A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Book 2

  The New World

  by Winston S. Churchill

  In 1939, just before the outbreak of the war, Winston Churchill completed the original draft of his great history. First projected as two volumes, it doubled in size as Churchill got into it, and was finally published as four. The second volume, THE NEW WORLD, presents a galaxy of great personages and stirring events: Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth I, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the... (more)
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  Read My Heart: A Love Story in England's Age of Revolution

  by Jane Dunn

  When Sir William Temple (1628–99) and Dorothy Osborne (1627–95) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their families—parliamentarians and royalists, respectively—did everything to keep them apart. Yet the couple went on to enjoy a marriage and a sophisticated partnership unique in its times. Surviving the political chaos of the era, the Black Plague, the Great Fire of London, and... (more)
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  Ulverton

  by Adam Thorpe

  Three hundred years of English history come alive through the lives and fortunes of the inhabitants of Ulverton, a fictional village on England's Wessex Downs. A first novel.
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  Magicians Code

  by Paul Camster

  By popular request,the compact beach,flight or rail -trip edition extracted from the Apocalypse 2nd Edition omnibus epic. The epic struggle to break the Gold Tinderbox Code in time to prevent total defeat of a tiny womens` militia by a huge Royalist army bent on destruction of all democratic ideas while still in their cradle. The struggle is beset by ruthless assassins,exhausting distances and-most of all- the... (more)
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  CRIME&PUNISHMENT

  by Paul Camster

  Can be read as a standalone epic or a gripping sequel for fans of the `Master Therion` The Civil War era Super-Agents take on a deadly task as a global threat emerges from the aftermath of the `Master Therion` mystery. Reaching new levels in explaining questions and answers we never even thought existed. A deadly duel off the Carolinas to decide the slave trading divide for centuries is a new ,gripping, feature.... (more)
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  The Bleeding Land

  by Giles Kristian

  The bestselling historical novelist Giles Kristian begins an epic new trilogy, set against the tumultuous backdrop of the bloody war that divided a nation and tore families apart.   England. 1642. War is coming. The rift between King and Parliament has widened and armies muster, ready to fight for their religious and political ideals. Nothing is so destructive as civil war, and for the Rivers family, the raising... (more)
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  Precoded

  by Paul Camster

  By popular request,the compact beach,flight or rail -trip edition extracted from the Apocalypse 2nd Edition omnibus epic. The epic struggle around the role of the Gold Tinderbox Code in the lead-up to World War2 -and possible worse catastrophes to come-reaches Spain. The cover picture is a famous English language poster appealing for international help by the Madrid government against General Franco and his... (more)