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The Dorset Chronicles #2
It Takes A Rogue
In 1688, England is on the brink of something terrible. And Dorset is in the thick of it. Will James II’s dictatorial policies lead to invasion by William of Orange?
Thomas Davenport, a builder, has a diminishing workload due to national uncertainty.
Henry, the new Earl of Sherborne, has a deep secret to keep. Recently married to Grace Davenport, he walks a tightrope between loyalty and rebellion.
Matthew Davenport, exiled in Holland, jumps at the opportunity to return to Dorset as a scout for the planned invasion.
The Wiltshires are rich and aristocratic. She hungers after human warmth yet is ice-like with others. This is, until she meets Lady Roakes. Together, they learn that a rogue need not stay a rogue forever.
William gains momentum, people flocking to join him, some less salubrious than others.
Ambition, love and revenge make an intriguing tale that ranges across Dorset, causing anguish, adventure and suspense.
A must-read for those looking for an exciting story set amidst the forging of modern England.
Thomas Davenport, a builder, has a diminishing workload due to national uncertainty.
Henry, the new Earl of Sherborne, has a deep secret to keep. Recently married to Grace Davenport, he walks a tightrope between loyalty and rebellion.
Matthew Davenport, exiled in Holland, jumps at the opportunity to return to Dorset as a scout for the planned invasion.
The Wiltshires are rich and aristocratic. She hungers after human warmth yet is ice-like with others. This is, until she meets Lady Roakes. Together, they learn that a rogue need not stay a rogue forever.
William gains momentum, people flocking to join him, some less salubrious than others.
Ambition, love and revenge make an intriguing tale that ranges across Dorset, causing anguish, adventure and suspense.
A must-read for those looking for an exciting story set amidst the forging of modern England.
317 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 12, 2019
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About the author
Chris Oswald
11 books15 followersThe Stories that would not Lie Down.
As far back as I can remember, stories have been a major part of my life. At first they were in my head, a whole set of worlds of wonderful make believe. Then they became verbal to wile away long car journeys, rehearsed during boring lessons at school. For the longest time nothing was put into writing except a little poetry and some songs.
Then adulthood came and, with it, responsibility. I tried to put my stories away and concentrate on a career in business. This took me to America where we lived for close to twenty years, also to Scotland where my family comes from. But the stories would not lie down, kept coming back to me. In a fallow period in my thirties I wrote my first book. It was terrible so I wrote another. Then I started ‘2024: A History of the Future’ and things seemed to come together. But it was still little more than ideas and so it remained for a long time until I sold my business and moved to Dorset.
The Dorset Chronicles is historical fiction at its best - local yet national, even international, accurate yet full of imagination, thrilling yet tender, full of description yet full of action.
Each book is a bundle of fiction and fact, entertainment and education.
Other books include 18 Acres of England, a humorous yet serious look into politics and prison life in America and The Stuff of Heroes, first in the Semblance of Order Trilogy, asking what would the 1960s look like if Germany had won the war?
Parallel with my love of stories is an equal love of history. Perhaps it is the millions of different ways things can work out that appeals to me. Or perhaps it is the unknown parts that allow the imagination to play. But my writing is infused with history, mixing and matching ideas and themes that talk of freedom, choices and strong social concepts. But at the end of the day, each book hopes to be a good story with twists, humour and characters that come alive to the reader.
As far back as I can remember, stories have been a major part of my life. At first they were in my head, a whole set of worlds of wonderful make believe. Then they became verbal to wile away long car journeys, rehearsed during boring lessons at school. For the longest time nothing was put into writing except a little poetry and some songs.
Then adulthood came and, with it, responsibility. I tried to put my stories away and concentrate on a career in business. This took me to America where we lived for close to twenty years, also to Scotland where my family comes from. But the stories would not lie down, kept coming back to me. In a fallow period in my thirties I wrote my first book. It was terrible so I wrote another. Then I started ‘2024: A History of the Future’ and things seemed to come together. But it was still little more than ideas and so it remained for a long time until I sold my business and moved to Dorset.
The Dorset Chronicles is historical fiction at its best - local yet national, even international, accurate yet full of imagination, thrilling yet tender, full of description yet full of action.
Each book is a bundle of fiction and fact, entertainment and education.
Other books include 18 Acres of England, a humorous yet serious look into politics and prison life in America and The Stuff of Heroes, first in the Semblance of Order Trilogy, asking what would the 1960s look like if Germany had won the war?
Parallel with my love of stories is an equal love of history. Perhaps it is the millions of different ways things can work out that appeals to me. Or perhaps it is the unknown parts that allow the imagination to play. But my writing is infused with history, mixing and matching ideas and themes that talk of freedom, choices and strong social concepts. But at the end of the day, each book hopes to be a good story with twists, humour and characters that come alive to the reader.
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March 4, 2020
Like a comfy pair of slippers is how it feels to be carried back into the narrative and characters I invested in when I read the first book of the Dorset Chronicles and loved. It is a time of religious tension, politics are at the fore front of life and being careful who you picked as friends was very important. Religion, family, which do pick to be loyal to that is the crux of this novel. It is commendable how fiction is skillfully woven into events that were happening, which makes the narrative so much more believable, how love, loyalty and trust can be stretched to its upmost before breaking. Who do you trust, who don't you trust. Unexpected death, which when it happens both shocks and saddens you, making you feel for those left behind, love that's forbidden which comes unexpected to the least expected couples, and finally joins with succession, and love finds its home at last.
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