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Written by: Ollie Ollerton
Published by: Blink Publishing
Submitted By: Robert Douglas
My eleventh read for this year’s bookwormathon is another SAS: Who Dares Wins presenter biography. ‘Point Break’ tells the story of how Ollie Ollerton shrugged off his actions of being a young offender and endeavoured to realize an ambition of…
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Written by: William James and Andrew Lambert
Published by: Conway Maritime Press
Submitted By: Geraint
William James was the greatest historian of the 1812 war between the United Kingdom and the United States. A combination of timing and sheer genius placed this man, blessed with astonishing acuity, in the US just at the time when…
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Written by: Simon Scarrow
Published by: Headline
Submitted By: Robert Douglas
My tenth read for 2019 – and ashamedly my first taste of Scarrow’s superb style – is ‘Invictus’. It follows protagonists Macro and Cato as they are given command of a Praetorian Cohort with one vital mission: to help crush…
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Written by: Stuart Laycock
Published by: Amberley Publishing
Submitted By: Stuart Laycock
This review submitted by the book’s author Great historical fiction, like Bernard Cornwell’s, gives a new and fresh angle on the past. Now I’m attempting the same by reinventing the art of historical poetry. I am a historian and this…
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Written by: Donald R. Hickey
Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
Submitted By: Geraint
Whether or not the United States “won” the war of 1812, two engagements that occurred toward the end of the conflict had an enormous influence on the development of American identity: the successful defenses of the cities of Baltimore and…
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Written by: Dean Hamilton
Published by: Tyburn Tree Publishing
Submitted By: Dean Hamilton
This review submitted by the book’s author. Kit Tyburn, ex-soldier turned play-actor and part-time intelligencer for the Queen’s spymaster Francis Walsingham, is back in London and adrift. Penniless, cut loose from both his playing troupe and his mercurial employer, Tyburn…
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Written by: Jack Kilborn (J A Konrath)
Published by: Headline
Submitted By: Robert Douglas
My ninth read for this year is something different to the genres I normally read: the only horror titles I’m familiar with are by James Herbert. However, although this short novel was by far more disturbing in comparison to Herbert’s…
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Written by: Cameron Readman
Published by: Self Published
Submitted By: Cameron Readman
This review submitted by the book’s author. A historical fiction based on the harrowing Berwick Witch Trials in the late 16th century, the Lord Earl Bothwell, Francis Stewart, a powerful baron in early modern Scotland and leader of one of…
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Written by: Francis Williams
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Cianna Leschied
I didn’t realize it at the time, but this was self-published. This was the author’s first book and he did a great job. The setting was well researched and the story arc flowed very well! This book has certain…
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Written by: Garrett Pearson
Published by: Morepork Publishing
Submitted By: Marilyn Watson
This is the untold story of the brave warrior that held the bridge at Stamford in 1066. It tells of his life and that of his family, a fictional story of the common man wrapped around the written words of…
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