The Winter List
Gripping historical thriller explores Charles II's return to throne
$24.89
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2024
Summary
Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supported the Protectorate are being hunted down as traitors.
’S. G. MacLean can make any historical period sing with life’ Antonia Hodgson
By the summer of 1660 the last remnants of the Republic have been swept away and the Stuarts have been restored under their king, Charles II. A list of regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is drawn up. Gruesome executions begin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529414264 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529414261 |
| Author: | S.G. MacLean |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
With a propulsive plot, this is a well-researched and fascinating portrait of a febrile, still divided nation, where long-held grudges fester in an atmosphere of broken trust * Guardian *
Vividly imaginative, this builds the world of 1660 from the ground up, with all its romance and tragedy * Sun *
Manon faces daily danger in a novel that shows MacLean’s ability to invest gripping fiction with historical fact * Sunday Times *
A wonderful storyteller * The Times *
About The Author
S.G. MacLean
S.G. MacLean has a PhD in history from Aberdeen University. She is the author of two historical crime series - The Alexander Seaton series, set in seventeenth-century Scotland, and the Damian Seeker series, set in Oliver Cromwell’s London, as well as the standalone Jacobite thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness. She has been shortlisted four times for the CWA Historical Dagger, winning it twice. S.G. MacLean lives in Conon Bridge, Scotland.
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