Ethyl Smith

Times

1 - Changed Times (May-2016)
2 - Dark Times (Sep-2017)

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  Changed Times
  

  • May-2016
  • / Action Adventure
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  Times - 1
  

  1679 - The Killing Times
  Charles II is on the throne, the Episcopacy has been restored, and southern Scotland is in ferment.
  The King is demanding superiority over all things spiritual and temporal and rebellious Ministers are being ousted fr...

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  Dark Times
  

  • Sep-2017
  • / Action Adventure
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  Times - 2
  

  The summer of 1679 is a dark one for the Covenanters, routed by government troops at the Battle of Bothwell Brig. John Steel is on the run, hunted for his part in the battle by the vindictive Earl of Airlie. And life is no easier for the hapless Sand...

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  Desperate Times
  

  • Oct-2018
  • / Historical
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  July 1680: Richard Cameron is dead, and John Steel and Lucas Brotherstone have only just escaped capture by government forces.The net widens to arrest anyone suspected of Covenanter sympathies, and the army becomes ever more brutal in its suppression...

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  Broken Times
  

  • Sep-2020
  • / Historical
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  Broken Times – Part IV in this gripping seriesScotland 1683As James Renwick returns to Scotland, accompanied by the young Jonas Hawthorne, in search of adventure, an undeterred John Steel is still living the life of a fugitive, hunted day and n...

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  Lost Times
  

  • Nov-2022
  • / Historical
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  Scotland, 1685With Monmouth and Argyll planning to overthrow James VII and II, the Covenanters see an opportunity to further their own cause, but dissent among the faithful causes factions to start appearing.As tensions heighten and rumours of an inv...

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  Uncertain Times
  

  • Feb-2025
  • / Historical
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  Scotland, 1685Part 6 in Ethyl Smith's Times series that eloquently portrays the lives of ordinary men and women in 17th century Scotland as they fought to survive in extraordinary times.Billy Kay, author of Scots: The Mither TongueAs an Ayrshire man ...

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