Ann Swinfen

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2009
  • Latest Book:
    July 2018
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Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • The Testament of Mariam

    Who is Mariam? Her family in Roman Gaul know her only as a refugee from far-off Judah, without other relatives or friends. For more than thirty years Mariam has herself turned her back on the past, but now a series of events forces her to confront it...

  • A Running Tide

    'The past is a country of the mind - we wander there like dreamers in a shadowy landscape that hides its meaning from us . . . There are seasons in our lives,' said Christina, 'a pattern, like the old Indian cross within a circle. Our lives move roun...

  • Flood

    Violence, greed and betrayal threaten the remote communities of East Anglia in the seventeenth century, when ruthless and unscrupulous speculators steal their common lands, while fanatic Puritans bring accusations of heresy and witchcraft. Granddaugh...

  • The Anniversary

    It is June 11th 1994 in the depths of Herefordshire and Natasha Devereux’s family and two hundred guests gather together to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of St Martins. From the vision of one woman who fled Bolshevik Russia and opened her door...

  • The Travellers

    Sofia Niklai, a reclusive exile, and Kate Milburn, locked in a stifling marriage, form a tentative friendship on a windswept beach in Northumbria. While Sofia forces herself to confront her father’s diaries, Kate must face half-remembered shadows f...

  • The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez

    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...

  • The Enterprise of England

    A devastating threat looms on the horizon…Facing the threat of King Philip’s Enterprise of England â€" a Spanish invasion and annexation of the country â€" Sir Francis Walsingham’s espionage service spreads a vast spy network across Europe.Youn...

  • The Portuguese Affair

    A year after defeating the Spanish Armada, England retaliates.An expedition to Portugal sets out to destroy what remains of Spain’s Atlantic fleet, drive the Spanish out of Portugal, put the claimant Dom Antonio of Aviz on the throne, and seize the...

  • Bartholomew Fair

    All is fair in love and war…When Bartholomew Fair, London’s 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 o...



  • This Rough Ocean

    It is December, 1648, and England faces one of the greatest crises in its history. Bands of renegade soldiers and broken men roam the countryside, looting, burning and raping. In Parliament, former allies are torn apart after six years of bloody conf...

  • Suffer the Little Children

    In Elizabethan London, no child is safe. Children are misused and exploited by parents, masters, strangers, and society at large. Even the children of the rich are in danger. When a five-year-old heiress to great estates is kidnapped, Christoval Alva...

  • Betrayal

    In 1648, the coldest year in living memory, Mercy Bennington and her neighbours struggle to rebuild their lives after the disastrous man-made flood, but the mysterious speculators are still bent on seizing their lands. The local magnate promises to h...

  • Voyage to Muscovy

    An agent sent to Muscovy to investigate suspected treason amongst employees of the Muscovy Company has disappeared without trace on the way to Astrakhan. Sir Francis Walsingham, who began the investigation, is dead, but the directors of the Company k...

  • The Play's the Thing

    When Kit Alvarez returns from Muscovy, it is to discover that her post as physician at St Thomas's hospital has been given to another. Trying to eke out the small income she earns from some of Dr Nunez's private patients, she undertakes paid work as ...

  • The Bookseller's Tale

    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 evi...

  • The Novice's Tale

    A young girl’s 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 ...

  • That Time May Cease

    When the violent arrest of an innocent apprentice sparks a riot in Southwark during the summer of 1592, more lies behind it than a simple grievance. Increasing poverty, vagrancy, and crime in a restless London compel a nervous Privy Council to close ...

  • The Huntsman's Tale

    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, su...

  • The Merchant's Tale

    Money is the root of all evil...St Frideswide’s 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 t...



  • The Lopez Affair

    When ruthless men are locked in an unremitting struggle for supremacy, even the innocent may become victims. The Earl of Essex, Elizabeth I’s arrogant favourite, will stop at nothing in his greedy pursuit of power, at times heedlessly trying her pa...

  • The Troubadour's Tale

    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 violenc...

  • The Stonemason's Tale

    Death is only a stone’s throw away.When a series of accidents begin to occur during the building of the chapel at Queen’s College, they do not appear a cause for major concern. But they quickly grow more serious, and stonemasons are injured.Nicho...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ann Swinfen has published 22 books.

Ann Swinfen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Stonemason's Tale, was published in July 2018.

The first book by Ann Swinfen, The Testament of Mariam, was published in November 2009.

No. Ann Swinfen does not write books in series.
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