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The King's Chameleon
Richard Woodman
A thrilling Kit Faulkner naval adventure, set in turbulent historical times.
England, 1659. Captain Kit Faulkner's house is prospering; his eldest son, Nathaniel, has recently returned from a profitable trip to Jamaica in the good ship Faithful, and his daughter, Hannah, has made a suitable match with a young sailor. But the resignation of the Lord Protector, Richard Cromwell, throws England into uncertainty. Will the republic flourish, or will a King return to the throne?
Kit is content to let matters take their natural course, but his younger son, Henry, is an idealist with political ambitions. It soon becomes clear that Henry is in much deeper than Kit first realised, and Henry's actions may threaten everything that Kit holds dear . . .
UK edition
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Publication Date: 25 Jul 2013
ISBN: 9780727882967
Price: £19.99
Dimensions: 222 x 141
Extent: 272 pages
US edition
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Publication Date: 1 Nov 2013
ISBN: 9780727882967
Price: $28.95
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5
Extent: 272 pages
For King Or Commonwealth
An exhilarating high seas adventure set during the English Civil War.
1649. England has been torn asunder by a civil war that has pitted Parliamentarians against Royalists. Captain Kit Faulkner, bound to the Royalist cause, has been living in exile for the past four years. Faulkner must now support himself with the tiny rump of the Royal Navy that remains loyal. But his loyalties are torn, partly by the desire of his old patron, Sir Henry Mainwaring, who wishes to return home, and partly by the predatory nature of Prince Charles, who has his eyes on the beautiful Katherine Villiers . . .
A Ship for the King
A thrilling maritime adventure, the first in a new series set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.
Bristol, England, 1618. Kit Faulkner is a young vagrant orphan, but his life changes forever when two gentlemen spot his potential and he is taken aboard their merchant ship, the Swallow, to be trained for a life at sea. As he rises through the ranks, he risks all in encounters with pirates and French corsairs. Meanwhile, England edges ever closer to civil war, and very soon Kit must chose which side he will fight for . . .
The Disastrous Voyage of the Santa Margarita
Among the coral outcrops of the island of Rota, lies the wreck of a Spanish galleon, the Santa Margarita.
Spring 1601. This is a reconstruction of the Santa Margarita's disastrous last voyage, beset by an extraordinary sequence of typhoons and storms. Based on what little is known of the ship's journey overloaded cargo, bad-blood amongst the crew and a curse, we are told a story of greed, horror, deprivation and unimaginable hardship by the handful of survivors rescued from the wreck . . .