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Charles Cordell Books

Charles Cordell is the author of English Civil War historical fiction series Divided Kingdom - including the novels God's Vindictive Wrath and The Keys of Hell and Death - "a former soldier, writes with bravura confidence" The Times.

He is a writer with experience as a soldier on the ground in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa, witnessing humanity at its best, its worst and its most desperate. His writing draws on time spent in the fraying margins of civilisation, as well as a deep study of The General Crisis of the 17th Century and its parallels today.

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The Keys of Hell and Death
God's Vindictive Wrath
The Keys of Hell and Death
Treason's Daughter
The Puritan Princess: The stunning and unforgettable historical novel of family, politics and the price of love in the Civil War
Marston Moor: Book 6 of The Civil War Chronicles
Brothers' Fury: (Civil War: 2): a thrilling novel of tragic family turmoil and brutal civil war that will blow you away
God's Vindictive Wrath
Hunter's Rage: Book 3 of The Civil War Chronicles
The Bleeding Land: (Civil War: 1): a powerful, engaging and tumultuous novel confronting one of England’s bloodiest periods of h
Traitor's Blood: Book 1 of The Civil War Chronicles
Twenty Years After: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers
The King's General
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War
The Making of Oliver Cromwell
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier
God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars
The English Civil War At First Hand
The English Civil War: A People’s History
Cavalier: The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy
Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War
'To Walk in the Dark': Military Intelligence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646
The Royalist War Effort 1642-1646
Civil War: The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660
Battles for the Three Kingdoms: The Campaigns for England, Scotland and Ireland 1689-92
Prince Rupert: Admiral and General at Sea
Montrose
The Moor's Account
Act of Oblivion
The Keys of Hell and Death
Treason's Daughter
The King’s Evil
The Seeker: the first in a captivating spy thriller series set in 17th century London
The Puritan Princess: The stunning and unforgettable historical novel of family, politics and the price of love in the Civil War
As Meat Loves Salt
Blood & Sugar
God's Vindictive Wrath
Brothers' Fury: (Civil War: 2): a thrilling novel of tragic family turmoil and brutal civil war that will blow you away
Marston Moor: Book 6 of The Civil War Chronicles
The Bleeding Land: (Civil War: 1): a powerful, engaging and tumultuous novel confronting one of England’s bloodiest periods of h
Assassin's Reign: Book 4 of The Civil War Chronicles
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The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court
Charles I's Private Life
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
The English Civil War At First Hand
Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War
Black Tudors: The Untold Story
The Making of Oliver Cromwell
Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain
Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships that Stopped the Slave Trade
The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness
Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944–45
Quartered Safe Out Here
From The City, From The Plough
There's No Home
Dispatches
Black Hawk Down
The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa: With E. D. Swinton's "The Defence of Duffer's Drift"
Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944: From Dunkirk to D-Day
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Hans von Luck
Infantry Attacks
The War The Infantry Knew: 1914-1919
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour (or, How to Understand Those Who Cannot Be Understood)
Centuries of Change
Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967
Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth
John Donne's Poetry
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
Yesterday's Country Customs: A History of Traditional English Folklore
Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
Contrasting Communities: English Villages in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Life of the British Home: An Architectural History
A Brush With Nature: Reflections on the Natural World
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Shepherd's Calendar: With Village Stories and Other Poems
The Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, County of Salop
Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie
Finding Hildasay: How one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness
Cecily: An epic feminist retelling of the War of the Roses
The Ornament Of The World
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames
Cooking and Dining in Medieval England
Dictionary of Battles from the Earliest Date to the Present Time
Sacred Hunger
Laughter is the Best Weapon: The Remarkable Adventures of an Unconventional Soldier
Touching The Void
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Quiet American: Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Heart of Darkness
The Name of the Rose