Written by: M. J. Logue
Submitted By: Hannah Methwell
The first book in a (so far) four-book series set in the English Civil War and featuring the adventures of a troop of Parlamentarian cavalry under Captain Holofernes Babbitt.
They're sweary, funny, violent, exciting, occasionally sexy, occasionally political, very subversive, and thought-provoking.
This one is set at the Battle of Edgehill, the first battle of the English Civil War, and it's the story of the scruffy ex-mercenary Babbitt and the troop of Anabaptists, horse-thieves and Dissenters that he's landed with. Plus a principled posh poet that he's forced to accomodate.
It's lovely to read books from the aternative perspective of Parliament, rather than the traditional Royalist angle, and the characters are engaging as well as thought-provoking. An author who knows her history but wears it lightly.
