Andrew Swanston

Thomas Hill

1 - The King's Spy (Aug-2012)
2 - The King's Exile (Aug-2013)
3 - The King's Return (Jun-2014)

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  The King's Spy
  

  • Aug-2012
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Thomas Hill - 1
  

  Summer, 1643England is at war with itself. King Charles I has fled London, his negotiations with Parliament in tatters. The country is consumed by bloodshed. For Thomas Hill, a man of letters quietly running a bookshop in the rural town of Romsey, kn...

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  The King's Exile
  

  • Aug-2013
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Thomas Hill - 2
  

  Spring, 1648.When Thomas Hill, a bookseller living in rural Hampshire, publishes a political pamphlet he has little idea of the trouble that will follow. He is quickly arrested, forced on a boat to Barbados and condemned to life as a slave to two of ...

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  The King's Return
  

  • Jun-2014
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Thomas Hill - 3
  

  The king’s coronation brings hope. Until a murderer strikes.Spring 1661: After years of civil war followed by Oliver Cromwell's joyless rule as Lord Protector, England awaits the coronation of King Charles II. The mood in London is one of relief an...

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  Waterloo the Bravest Man
  

  • Jul-2015
  • / General Fiction
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  June, 1815. The Coldstream Guards and the third guards are waiting impatiently for orders to move into battle against Napoleon and his French army. Every day seems endless as the troops wait for Wellington's orders. When the group eventually encounte...

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  Waterloo
  

  • Jul-2015
  • / Historical
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  June, 1815. The Coldstream Guards and the third guards are waiting impatiently for orders to move into battle against Napoleon and his French army. Every day seems endless as the troops wait for Wellington's orders. When word is finally received, the...

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  Beautiful Star and Other Stories
  

  • Jan-2018
  • / General Fiction
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  History is brought alive by the people it affects, rather than those who created it. In Beautiful Star we meet Eilmer, a monk in 1010 with Icarus-like dreams; Charles I, hiding in 1651, and befriended by a small boy; the trial of Jane Wenham, witch o...

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