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Ambridge Summer
255 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 1975
About the author
Keith Miles
89 books18 followersPseudonyms: Edward Marston, A.E. Marston, Martin Inigo, Conrad Allen, David Garland, Christopher T. Mountjoy
Keith Miles (born 1940) is an English author, who writes under his own name and also historical fiction and mystery novels under the pseudonym Edward Marston. He is known for his mysteries set in the world of Elizabethan theater. He has also written a series of novels based on events in the Domesday Book.
The protagonist of the theater series is Nicholas Bracewell, the bookholder of a leading Elizabethan theater company (in an alternate non-Shakespearean universe).
The latter series' two protagonists are the Norman soldier Ralph Delchard and the former novitiate turned lawyer Gervase Bret, who is half Norman and half Saxon.
His latest series of novels are based in early Victorian period and revolve around the fictional railway detective Inspector Robert Colbeck.
Series:
* City Hospital
* Action Scene
* Alan Saxon
* Merlin Richards
Keith Miles (born 1940) is an English author, who writes under his own name and also historical fiction and mystery novels under the pseudonym Edward Marston. He is known for his mysteries set in the world of Elizabethan theater. He has also written a series of novels based on events in the Domesday Book.
The protagonist of the theater series is Nicholas Bracewell, the bookholder of a leading Elizabethan theater company (in an alternate non-Shakespearean universe).
The latter series' two protagonists are the Norman soldier Ralph Delchard and the former novitiate turned lawyer Gervase Bret, who is half Norman and half Saxon.
His latest series of novels are based in early Victorian period and revolve around the fictional railway detective Inspector Robert Colbeck.
Series:
* City Hospital
* Action Scene
* Alan Saxon
* Merlin Richards
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April 28, 2019
Interesting in providing a back story for Lilian aka Lilligin and how she and Ralph Bellamy finally married. Overall, this is an interesting insight into 1970s Ambridge where Shula and Kenton are still twelve years old and current irritants, such as Ruth Ooooh Nooo Archer are yet to materialise. Having said that, much of the focus is on the dreadfully unfunny Sid Perks and his wife, whom he calls Polldoll, both of whom are (thankfully) no longer with us listeners.
In the early 70s, the Bull is still in the hands of Peggy, Dan and Doris are recently ensconced in Glebe, leaving Brookfield in the hands of Phil and Jill and Brian Aldridge has yet to leave the flatlands of Cambridge to seduce his way around the county.
A quick and easy read, not as interesting as Spring at Brookfield but worth investigating although it still seems hard to believe that the now mythical Nelson Gabriel attempted to rape Lilian...
In the early 70s, the Bull is still in the hands of Peggy, Dan and Doris are recently ensconced in Glebe, leaving Brookfield in the hands of Phil and Jill and Brian Aldridge has yet to leave the flatlands of Cambridge to seduce his way around the county.
A quick and easy read, not as interesting as Spring at Brookfield but worth investigating although it still seems hard to believe that the now mythical Nelson Gabriel attempted to rape Lilian...
May 25, 2014
Surprisingly well-written.
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