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Ann Swinfen was born in Akron, Ohio, on 5th October 1937, and died on 4th August 2018, in Broughty Ferry, Scotland. Educated in America and England, she was awarded degrees from Oxford, London and Dundee universities. Married to a fellow student in 1960, she brought up five children, while working variously as a computer journalist, a part-time lecturer in English, and a member of the Council of the Open University. Altogether she published one non-fiction book, In Defence of Fantasy, and twenty-three hugely successful, and mostly historical, novels, set in the 14th, 16th and 17th centuries.
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Bartholomew Fair

Ann Swinfen


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2022-06-27

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All is fair in love and warWhen Bartholomew Fair, Londons largest public festival, is threatened in 1589 by five hundred armed soldiers dismissed from service without pay, the authorities must act swiftly and decisively to prevent trouble.Yet other...

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England, 1586. Treason threatens the very heart of the nation.England is awash with traitors plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and bring about a foreign invasion.Young physician Christoval Alvarez, a refugee from the horrors of the Portuguese Inquisition, is...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Portuguese Affair
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A year after defeating the Spanish Armada, England retaliates.An expedition to Portugal sets out to destroy what remains of Spains Atlantic fleet, drive the Spanish out of Portugal, put the claimant Dom Antonio of Aviz on the throne, and seize the Azores.But from the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Enterprise of England
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A devastating threat looms on the horizonFacing the threat of King Philips Enterprise of England a Spanish invasion and annexation of the country Sir Francis Walsinghams espionage service spreads a vast spy network across Europe.Young physician and code-breaker...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Stonemason's Tale
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Death is only a stones throw away.When a series of accidents begin to occur during the building of the chapel at Queens College, they do not appear a cause for major concern. But they quickly grow more serious, and stonemasons are injured.Nicholas Elyot becomes involved...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Merchant's Tale
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Money is the root of all evil...St Frideswides Fair is a great annual event in Oxford, bringing together merchants and buyers from all over England and Wales, and from as far away as Flanders and France.Yet the earnings from the fair, granted to the Priory of St...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Huntsman's Tale
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The hunt is on To find a killer, to save the life of a friend.On hearing that his cousin is short-handed for the harvest, Nicholas Elyot takes a group of friends back to the family farm to help.But after a deer hunt in Wychwood ends in tragedy, suspicion is directed...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Troubadour's Tale
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A treacherous journey, a band of desperate rogues, a shocking, hidden truth.When Nicholas Elyot and his friends set out to spend the Christmas season in the country, they are prepared for a hard journey in winter weather.They are also wary of violence on the road, for...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Bookseller's Tale
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The death of a scholar, the birth of a detective...Oxford, Spring 1353. When young bookseller Nicholas Elyot discovers the body of William Farringdon floating in the River Cherwell, all the signs point to suicide.Soon, however, Nicholas discovers evidence of murder. Who...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Novice's Tale
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A young girls disappearance hints at a disturbing truth...When novice Emma Thorgold goes missing from Godstow Abbey in the summer of 1353, the hunt is on throughout the Oxfordshire countryside for any sign of where she could have gone. Bookseller Nicholas Elyot and...

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