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                           Interview with author Mark Turnbull  A month or two back I read the civil war novel 'Allegiance of Blood' by Mark Turnbull, and was most impressed.  The novel opens at the Battle of Edgehill  23rd October 1642 and ends in December  1643. Prime historical fiction which transforms at the end into  quite a dark tale.Was delighted to arrange an email interview with the author.  Mark has a main website  Allegiance of Blood  with and a related  author blog  , runs  CavalierCast  ,  a series of podcasts on different Civil War themes.  How did your interest in the British Civil Wars begin? I'd always had a love of history, but the British Civil War spark came when I was ten years old and my parents took me to Helmsley Castle, North Yorshire. Like most children, I couldn't wait to explore the gift shop and I bought a pack of cards ...

 It has been a pleasure to interview renowned thriller writer  and historian John Paul Davis via email. The questions relate to John Paul Davis'  interest in the 17th century,which is only one aspect of this writer's work.In fact the first John Paul Davis book I read was his biography of Henry III 'The Gothic King'  which is rather good.The author's websites are linked to the foot of the page.  Michael Bully, 5th September 2020 .  Interview 1) The 1666 Fire of London features heavily in your thriller 'The Crown Jewels Conspiracy', when a contemporary gang of renegades attempt to reconstruct the fire in our century via launching a terrorist attack. Intrigued to read in your Afterword to the novel about the claims that the 1666 Fire was an act of deliberate arson. How seriously were they taken at the time? How seriously should the deliberate arson theory be taken now?  At the time, it was taken very seriously. Shortly after the fire, one Ro...