The best historical novels to make you believe in love again – Shepherd What is my book about? The Witch of Cologne is the story of Ruth, a seventeenth-century Jewish midwife whose revolutionary methods lead to accusations of witchcraft and imprisonment. Ruth has brought new and dangerous ideas to Cologne from the free city […]
Read MoreFirst of all to all my readers a huge apology for the long silence – like a lot of you, and many other creatives, the sequence of events on the geo-political global landscape stunned me into a numbed silence. Having written fairly extensively on the plague in the 17thcentury (Witch of Cologne and in The […]
Read MoreThe first character and protagonist of the book WILLIAM LILLY – Infamous and famous Astrologer: 1602 – 1681 Active and influential during the First English Civil War: 1641 – 1649 TAURUS (William Lilly’s description of the sun signs in his original voice) The Nature, Description, and Diseases signified by Taurus. QUALITY. Taurus is an Earthly, Cold, […]
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