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Paperback version available at Amazon and independenrt bookshops.
ISBN number 0993277209.

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Meticulously researched and beautifully written, 'The Road to Waterloo' is that rare thing - a historical novel which is also a real page-turner. Starting in 1805, the book follows the fortunes of a young cavalryman up to and beyond the Battle of Waterloo. In its vivid realism Everett's novel 8is in the tradition of Stendhal's 'The Charterhouse of Parma' of which Hemingway observed "Once you have read it you will have been at the battle of Waterloo and nothing can ever take that experience from you".

A timely publication , coinciding at is does with the bicentenary of that decisive battle in June 2015, this is an exciting book from a first time author and I guarantee it will make you want to read more.

Carole Bromley

The Road to Waterloo is the first in a series of interlinked novels stretching from the Napoleonic to the Second World War, focusing on the lives and loves of ordinary people. It was inspired by my great great great grandfather, a serjeant at Waterloo, and called here Thomas Cowper. A seventeen year old Leicestershire lad, Thomas lives in fear of his abusive father and in the shadow of his brother. Accused by his mother of killing the brother, he is forced to leave home and joins a cavalry regiment but is soon fighting for both his mental and physical survival.

Paperback version available through Amazon and independent bookshops.
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What price loyalty? What price betrayal?

The Road to Peterloo is available from mid-November 2019. to coincide with the two hundredth anniversary of the Peterloo massacre in Manchester.
The book follows on from The Road to Waterloo but can be read on its own.

What price loyalty? What price betrayal? August 16th, 1819. At least fifteen killed and more than six hundred injured on the streets of Manchester.

Thomas Cowper, a serjeant in the British army of occupation in France, is traumatised by the Battle of Waterloo. As he tries to rebuild his life, he is hounded by his old adversay, intent on revenge.

Two years later Thomas and the rest of his Regiment return to a Britain bitterly divided, where the Peace has rewarded the few but penalised the many.
In the North, old friends from the Regiment are drawn into the mass meetings of democratic protest, whilst in London Thomas becomes caught up in a dangerous world of plots and spies.

"In this sequal to 'The Road to Waterloo', Everett has achieved the difficult task of writing a gripping historical novel which will appeal to readers of the earlier book but triumphantly stands alone. The action shifts to England and the personal fate of the characters is played out against growing civil unrest which clomaxes in the Peterloo Massacre. Meticulously researched snd written in a tense but clear and accessible way this novel illustrates superbly how ordinary people are caught up, sometimes tragically, in public events over which they have little control. The chapter in which the massacre itself is described through the eyes of a child is particularly impressive. I hope this novel reaches a wide audience as it is a real tour de force, like the very best historical novels, both firmly rooted in history yet with startling relevance to our own age."
Carole Bromley

Ireland, 1820 to 1824: The disturbed counties: where failing harvests and high rents fuel the followers of the mythical Captain Rock in their pursuit of natural justice against landlords, land agents and anybody else who stands in their way; where Pastorini's Book of Prophecies predicts the annihilation of all Protestants by 1825; where Troop Serjeant-Major Thomas Cowper and the 36th Cavalry are sent to keep the peace. But, as long-standing divisions fracture into violence between Protestants, Presbyterians and Catholics, whose peace will that be? Where even the land itself and old memories threaten both Cowper's and his old adversary Faloowfield's sense of self in their own struggles for survival.

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