"Any other ECW Novels besides author Michael Arnold" Topic

I am really enjoying Michael Arnold's series about the English Civil War and his Captain Stryker, but are there any other authors writing about the English Civil war?

Lindsey Davis – link
Haven't read it, but her Roman books are good, so may be worth trying.

Or you could go back to the classics, and read Nigel Tranter on Montrose – link

700 pages! Must be something in there. . .

Giles Kristian has written at least two of a planned trilogy and Nicholas Carter has a five- book series called Shadow on the Crown. Carter is, or was, an English re- enactor so his battle scenes are pretty good, although he does love his adverbs and adjectives. This paperback series is out of print but is worth looking for.

I can recommend Giles Kristian, I really enjoy his writing.

May I recommend another classic? Rosemary Sutcliff, Rider on a White Horse.

MJ Logue.

I hasten to state that I haven't read any of these, but they are languishing in my book collection somewhere:-

First Dry Rattle – Celia Boyd
Captain Fantom – Charles Underhill
By the Sword Divided – John Adair
Destiny Our Choice – John Attenborough
The Witch Finder General – Ronald Bassett
The Dancing Tree – John Keir Cross
The King's General – Daphne du Maurier
The Stranger Prince – Margaret Irwin
The Proud Servant – Margaret Irwin

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Big Martin Back, I struggled with The Red Horse by MJ Logue. Read about the first third then gave up, the central characters self-obsession just did me in.

How well does the series develop, and does her writing improve as the series goes along?

Hmmm, nice, more ECW reading suggestions.

This winter I picked up the rest of Carter's series (I only had book two) and they were really reasonable on ebay. I think I got them all and shipping for like $30 USD Canadian. I like them.

Nicholas Carter has a sixth book in his series available on Kindle. I enjoyed them all.

Rick32, can you tell me the title of the sixth Carter book please. I can't seem to find it on Kindle.

Sorry I guess that would have been helpful,

Black Tom's Red Army

Thanks for the heads-up Rick. I'm looking forward to catching up with the adventures of William Sparrow et al.

I didn't get on with Lindsey Davis's "Rebels and Traitors". That was largely down to the characterisation: the Parliamentarians were all virtuous characters fighting for noble goals, while the Royalists were bigots, fools, mercenaries, cowards, or bloodthirsty vagabonds. It read at times rather like polemic, and some passages seemed to be lifted almost word-for-word from Parliamentarian propaganda leaflets of the time (the raid on Birmingham, for instance).

It also ends so abruptly I had to wonder if there were some pages missing.

A crowning mercy was rather good I thought, pretty atmospheric but a bit Of a 'bodice ripper' but hey, I enjoyed it. Especially the Trial of the heroine sequence, and the fight for the lords manor house. Hell, I like tied it- so there!

Thanks as well Rick, didn't know there was a sixth!

Thanks everyone

A quick shout-out for Nigel Tranter's two novels about the Marquis of Montrose, The Young Montrose & Captain General, and another thumbs up for the Giles Kristian novels. He's probably my favourite author after Cornwell.

Second or is it a third for Nigel Trantor's Montrose books. Wyrdegrove by Peter Cotteral is worth a read as well time travel the ECW and 17th Century America involved.

I've just signed up for Kindleunlimited just to read these books. Thanks folks.

You should be really pleased.