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A Visit to Bedlam -Bloody Vengeance by Jemahl Evans

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                                    The Welcome Return of Sir Blandford Candy in 2026                                                                                In 2015, the world was introduced to Sir Blanford Candy " an irascible old drunk with a hatred of poets and a lover of hats", ninety five years old in 1719 and counjouring up his years fighting in the Civil Wars. The first novel in the series was The Last Roundhead .  Readers looking for stories about dashing Cavaliers or Puritan idealists building a new Jerusalem will probably not immediately take to Jemahl Evans's work which is quite 'anti-heroic'. But this is immaculately researched and entertaining historical fiction drawing in bot...