Wyrdegrove
Book Details
Author(s)Peter Cottrell
PublisherPeter James Cottrell
ISBN / ASINB008TQ0QK6
ISBN-13978B008TQ0QK4
Sales Rank1,410,927
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Book Description:
'Life on Mars' meets 'The Three Musketeers'. A light hearted historical romp with a fantasy twist following the adventures of two friends who find themselves catapulted back in time to the English Civil War and a world of action, adventure and romance! One reviewer called it, "A book that is full of history but also extremely funny and witty. A book anyone can read. A little gem I stumbled across but couldn't put it down."
Historical Note:
Whilst 'Wyrdegrove' is a work of historical fantasy many of the events and characters in the novel are based on fact. Royalist and Parliamentarian colonists really did fight each other in Maryland. The Battle of the Severn was fought in 1655 in an area that is now a suburb of Annapolis and was probably one of the last armed clashes of the English Civil War, despite happening in America. The activities of the Parliamentarian privateer Captain William Stagg are taken straight out of the diaries of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony and George Washington's ancestors really were Cavaliers fighting for the Royalist cause.
About the Author:
Peter Cottrell grew up in South Wales and served in the Territorial Army, Royal Navy and Regular Army before retiring to teach English, History and Classics as well as pursue a career as an author. He has already had three of his histories of the Anglo-Irish conflict of 1913-23 published as well as "England's Janissary" which is an historical novel set during the same period. Its prequel "The Lambs" set during the Great War will be published by Hale Books in February 2014. Wyrdegrove is his second novel.
'Life on Mars' meets 'The Three Musketeers'. A light hearted historical romp with a fantasy twist following the adventures of two friends who find themselves catapulted back in time to the English Civil War and a world of action, adventure and romance! One reviewer called it, "A book that is full of history but also extremely funny and witty. A book anyone can read. A little gem I stumbled across but couldn't put it down."
Historical Note:
Whilst 'Wyrdegrove' is a work of historical fantasy many of the events and characters in the novel are based on fact. Royalist and Parliamentarian colonists really did fight each other in Maryland. The Battle of the Severn was fought in 1655 in an area that is now a suburb of Annapolis and was probably one of the last armed clashes of the English Civil War, despite happening in America. The activities of the Parliamentarian privateer Captain William Stagg are taken straight out of the diaries of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony and George Washington's ancestors really were Cavaliers fighting for the Royalist cause.
About the Author:
Peter Cottrell grew up in South Wales and served in the Territorial Army, Royal Navy and Regular Army before retiring to teach English, History and Classics as well as pursue a career as an author. He has already had three of his histories of the Anglo-Irish conflict of 1913-23 published as well as "England's Janissary" which is an historical novel set during the same period. Its prequel "The Lambs" set during the Great War will be published by Hale Books in February 2014. Wyrdegrove is his second novel.
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