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A.L. Berridge

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Historical Fiction

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A. L. Berridge worked as a teacher, a script editor, and a television producer before finally settling down as a full-time novelist. She inherited her love of history from her father, writer and Victorian specialist David Newsome, but her own passion is for military adventure, and the character and relationships of men at war. She is published by Penguin.

Her first novel, the epic HONOUR AND THE SWORD, was published in April 2010 and became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller. Set during the Thirty Years War, it follows the adventures of André, the young Chevalier de Roland, as he fights to survive the 1636 Spanish invasion of Picardy.

Its sequel, IN THE NAME OF THE KING, is the second in the ‘Chevalier’ series and came out in August 2011. Thi ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 478 ratings · 71 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
Honour And The Sword (The C...
4.08 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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