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The Dorset Chronicles #3
A Simple Mistake
Anyone can make a mistake… Believing himself spurned by the woman he loves, ThomasDavenport leaves Dorset, intent just to get away. He ends up in Ireland, at the height of the 1689 James Stuart invasion. He meetsTristan Browne, an Irishman born in Barbados, coming home to a land in uproar. The Siege of Londonderry, like so much in the SeventeenthCentury, puts countryman against countryman in a bitter war ofattrition, starvation and resilience. Bridget Browne is caught up in it and writes a startling account, full of insight. Unknown to Thomas, his brother Matthew is also in Ireland,wishing only to be on the pulpit in his native Dorset, but his senseof duty prevails. Thrown together by fate, the four must flee Ireland when Matthew uncovers a corrupt scheme, the work of old adversaryParchman, who is also wreaking havoc back home in Dorset. Can Great Little and Bagber Manor survive as we have come to know them, or will Parchman succeed and see his foes out on thestreets, beggar bowl in hand? As we move relentlessly towards the modern age, our heroes and villains have their own struggles, which build into the drama of an extraordinary nation in the making.
316 pages, Paperback
Published August 20, 2019
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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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