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Paul Rushworth-Brown

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Five years ago, I set about writing a different kind of book. A book that I felt wasn't available, a book that I wanted to read. An honest story that pulled no punches about the lives of people living on the moors of Yorkshire in the 16 and 17th centuries. These people were my ancestors and probably yours, the poor peasants lost to time but now found.

RED WINTER JOURNEY is not just a novel about the English Civil War but about a family full of complex secrets and a father's love for his son. A historic journey of twists, turns and adventure with a dash of spirited passion. Modern writers usually don't know what it was like to live in the past, but Rushworth-Brown has done this with great skill in this accomplished, atmospheric and thoughtful novel.' Available in paperback https://bit.ly/3WXHVUs or as an e-book https://bit.ly/3irmtII

SKULDUGGERY A story of love and religious tolerance in 17th-century England. 'The story is a well-painted image of how 'copyholders' or peasants would have lived at this time, but that is only the backdrop to a suspenseful whodunit with romantic tones. Modern writers usually don't know what it was like to live in the past, but Rushworth-Brown has done this with great skill in this accomplished, atmospheric and thoughtful novel.' Available in paperback https://bit.ly/3ZeWYeh or as an e-book https://bit.ly/3GPYH2o

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Paul Rushworth-Brown was born in Maidstone, Kent, England in 1962. He spent time in a foster home in Manchester before emigrating to Canada with his mother in 1972. He spent his teenage years living and going to school in Toronto, Ontario where he also played professional soccer in the Canadian National Soccer League. In 1982, he emigrated to Australia to spend time with his father, Jimmy Brown who had moved there from Yorkshire in the mid-fifties.

Paul was educated at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales, Australia. He became a writer in 2015 when he embarked on a six-month project to produce a written family history for his children, Rachael, Christopher and Hayley.

​This four hundred-page book traced his family's ancestry back to Haworth, Yorkshire, where his ancestors had been living as copyholders or peasant farmers since 1590. His Great Grandfather James Rushworth Ist was a carpenter and the first to move away from the dales in the mid-1800s with his wife and nine children. Through this research, he developed a passion for writing and Skulduggery. Red Winter Journey and the soon-to-be-released Dream of Courage continues this.

​"The history of these people is rarely thought of and even less rarely written about because there are few records as most would have been illiterate. There is much written about the lords and ladies but what about the common people."​

Paul Rushworth-Brown - January 2019

​Exciting, mysterious and historically accurate adventures pull no punches about the life and hardships of 'copyholders' living on the moors of Yorkshire in 1590. A time when life expectancy was thirty-five, children rarely lived past the age of six and ale was consumed liberally because the water was undrinkable.

​Reading Paul's novels, you will walk the moors of Yorkshire and try a jack of ale at the Kings Arms; you will laugh, cry and feel empathy for young Thomas Rushworth and his descendants who face the rigours of life living as copyholders on Lord Birkhead’s land at Hall Green. An area Paul Has visited many times to do research for his novels.

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Rat baiting, shenanigans, murder, deception and love will keep you enthralled until the end, but be forewarned as the author paints a realistic picture that easily places you amidst the tale. So, turn the page now and step back in time to a period in history which seems simpler but one in which hardship, survival, death and skulduggery were a daily occurrence in the lives of the people of West Riding.

​Paul is currently writing the third novel in the Skulduggery series called Dream of Courage, which is set when England was a republic under the reign of the Puritan Oliver Cromwell. Witch-hunting, illegal wool broggers, the Halifax gibbet, the ducking pond and a nasty little man named Milton Killsin will keep the reader spellbound.

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