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Des Ekin is an Assistant Editor with The Sunday World. As well as researching investigative news articles, he writes a popular column that reaches more than a million readers every weekend. He was born in County Down, Northern Ireland and spent a decade reporting on Troubles in Northern Ireland before moving to Dublin, where he now lives with his wife and three children.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 1,070 ratings · 185 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates 3.87 avg rating — 677 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion 4.08 avg rating — 191 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ireland's Pirate Trail: A Quest to Uncover our Swashbuckling Past 3.91 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brutish Empire: Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities 4.13 avg rating — 49 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War 4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Single Obsession 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stone Heart 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates by Des Ekin(2008-12-31) by Des Ekin, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like for our Group Read in December 2018?

Elizabeth I by Margaret George

12 votes, 15.8%

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

11 votes, 14.5%

The Tudor Brandons: Mary and Charles - Henry VIII's Nearest & Dearest by Sarah-Beth Watkins

11 votes, 14.5%

Sovereign by C.J. Sansom

8 votes, 10.5%

Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr by Linda Porter

4 votes, 5.3%

To Hold the Crown by Jean Plaidy

4 votes, 5.3%

Amy Robsart: A Life and Its End by Christine Hartweg

4 votes, 5.3%

1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb

4 votes, 5.3%

Jane the Quene by Janet Ambrosi Wertman

4 votes, 5.3%

Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion by Susan Ronald

3 votes, 3.9%

A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess

3 votes, 3.9%

The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman

3 votes, 3.9%

Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal by John Matusiak

2 votes, 2.6%

Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley

2 votes, 2.6%

Graven With Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt. Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy by Nicola Shulman

1 vote, 1.3%

The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion by Des Ekin

0 votes, 0.0%

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