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Ann Swinfen

Born

in Akron, Ohio, The United States

October 05, 1937

Died

August 04, 2018

Website

http://www.annswinfen.com

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Genre

Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

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Ann Swinfen spent her childhood partly in England and partly on the east coast of America. She read Classics and Mathematics at Oxford, where she married a fellow undergraduate, the historian David Swinfen. While bringing up their five children and studying for an MSc in Mathematics and a BA and PhD in English Literature, she had a variety of jobs, including university lecturer, translator, freelance journalist and software designer.

She served for nine years on the governing council of the Open University and for five years worked as a manager and editor in the technical author division of an international computer company, but gave up her full-time job to concentrate on her writing, while continuing part-time university teaching. In 1995 ...more

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Dr Ann Swinfen – 1937 – 2018

It is with deepest regret that I have to tell her many readers that my dear wife Ann passed away quite suddenly at home on the morning of Saturday the 4th of August. Now there will be no more wonderful stories of Christoval Alvarez, or Nicholas and Emma. I have decided, however, to keep this website open for the foreseeable future, so that new readers will continue to have access to her compelling

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Average rating: 4.29 · 19,516 ratings · 1,283 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Bookseller's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 4,175 ratings — published 2016 — 8 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 Novice's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #2) 4.31 avg rating — 2,188 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	The Huntsman's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #3) 4.29 avg rating — 1,796 ratings — published 2017 — 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 Merchant's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #4) 4.39 avg rating — 1,637 ratings — published 2014 — 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 Stonemason's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries #6) 4.39 avg rating — 1,499 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 Troubadour's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries, #5) 4.34 avg rating — 1,449 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 Secret World of Christoval Alvarez (The Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez #1) 4.14 avg rating — 1,083 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The Enterprise of England (The Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez, #2) 4.37 avg rating — 679 ratings — published 2014 — 6 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
	Bartholomew Fair (The Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez, #4) 4.41 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Voyage to Muscovy (The Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez, #6) 4.38 avg rating — 562 ratings — 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

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Oxford Medieval Mysteries (6 books)
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Quotes by Ann Swinfen (?)

“It is always good – is it not? – when all that hard work of writing pages is turned into a solid book which will last for generations. You can be proud of that.”
― Ann Swinfen, The Bookseller's Tale

tags: books, writing, writing-process

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“The slaughter of Oxford’s dogs and cats had been well intentioned, but the result had been an explosion in the town’s population of rats, with few surviving predators to keep them down,”
― Ann Swinfen, The Bookseller's Tale

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“It was thus that I, a Jewish girl in fear for her life, came to work for Thomas Phelippes, chief cryptographer and spymaster under Sir Francis Walsingham.”
― Ann Swinfen, The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez

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