LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris oswald

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris oswald

  • All to the Sword
    Chris Oswald
    Can you imagine a government determined upon the massslaughter of its own people?Thomas Davenport is invited to design a magnificentnew house. His sister, Grace, hears it’s deep in the ScottishHighlands and decides the invitation should include the widerDavenport family.They depart in the summer of 1691, not realising that theirtravels will put them in the midst of the Glen Coe...
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  • God Was Bored
    Chris Oswald
    Can Humphrey Barrow, a young Jesuit priest with two doctorates in the theology of celibacy, save the Catholic Church from those that would change it beyond recognition......the victims?One person, in particular, is determined to bring about change and she harnesses the mighty powers of the marketplace to achieve her aims. Will Tammy Shroton, a formidable young American with a p...
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  • One Shot in the Storm
    Chris Oswald
    It’s 1690, and the wily lawyer and convicted criminal, Simon Taylor, is sentenced to indentured service in America but enlists instead. Quickly promoted, he is sent back to England on a vital secret mission. Can he succeed or will his own duplicitous character be the death of him?Henry, Earl of Sherborne, is keen to fight for his country, although as a Catholic he can never be ...
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  • A Simple Mistake
    Chris Oswald
    Anyone can make a mistake…Believing himself spurned by the woman he loves, ThomasDavenport leaves Dorset, intent just to get away. He ends up inIreland, at the height of the 1689 James Stuart invasion. He meetsTristan Browne, an Irishman born in Barbados, coming home to aland in uproar.The Siege of Londonderry, like so much in the SeventeenthCentury, puts countryman against co...
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  • It Takes A Rogue
    Chris Oswald
    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 lo...
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  • A New Lease on Freedom
    Chris Oswald
    1680s England is a disturbed place. Thomas and Grace Davenport, from a Dorset Presbyterian family, seek their missing friend, Lady Merriman. The Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son to the old King, Charles II, lands with a small force in Dorset, seeking to depose his uncle, James II. “For liberty and religion!” is his cry. Thomas and Grace are more concerned with tracking down L...
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  • 18 Acres of England
    Chris Oswald
    How do you fight when everything is set against you?Do you rollover and accept it, try and work the system from within, this being yourlife now? Or do you stand as tall as you can despite the chains, the cruelty, themindless routine? And how do you get through each day when you are not thestrongest, the wiliest or the meanest?How does a country fight for its independence when i...
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  • 2024
    Chris J.H. Oswald
    SOMETHING HAD TO CHANGE. SOMEONE HAD TO LEAD THAT CHANGE. BUT WAS HE UP TO THE TASK? George was an intellectual, a journalist, a writer: more theory than practice. Could he lead the country to a new beginning? Someone had to stand up to the tyranny, the controlling force that had crept up to overtake their lives. Someone who could espouse the principles they all believed in. Bu...
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