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Welcome to The Book’s Delight and a stop on Richard
Buxton’s Coffee Pot Book Tour for his American Civil War Trilogy.
Book
Title: Trilogy consisting of:
Whirligig (Book #1)
The Copper Road (Book #2)
Tigers in Blue (Book #3)
Series:
Shire’s Union
Author:
Richard Buxton
Publication
Date:
WG
= 22/3/2017
TCR
= 26/7/2020
TIB
= 8/12/2023
Publisher:
Ocoee Publishing
Page
Length:
WG
= 479
TCR
= 421
TIB
= 424
Genre:
American Historical Fiction
Shire
leaves his home and his life in Victorian England for the sake of a childhood
promise, a promise that pulls him into the bleeding heart of the American Civil
War. Lost in the bloody battlefields of the West, he discovers a second home
for his loyalty.Â
Clara
believes she has escaped from a predictable future of obligation and privilege,
but her new life in the Appalachian Hills of Tennessee is decaying around her.
In the mansion of Comrie, long hidden secrets are being slowly exhumed by a war
that creeps ever closer.Â
The
Shire’s Union trilogy is at once an outsider’s odyssey through the
battle for Tennessee, a touching story of impossible love, and a portrait of
America at war with itself. Self-interest and conflict, betrayal and passion,
all fuse into a fateful climax.Â
Written
by award winning author Richard Buxton, the Shire’s Union trilogy begins with Whirligig,
is continued in The Copper Road, and concludes with Tigers in Blue.
Buy Links for individual titles:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/whirligig-richard-buxton/1130891070
TCR:
https://books2read.com/u/b5JRvR
TIB:Â Â https://books2read.com/u/mVnXaA
UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08CDXDZDB
 Author Bio:
Richard lives with his
family in the South Downs, Sussex, England. He completed an MA in Creative
Writing at Chichester University in 2014. He has an abiding relationship with
America, having studied at Syracuse University, New York State, in the late
eighties. He travels extensively for research, especially in Tennessee, Georgia
and Ohio, and is rarely happier than when setting off from a motel to spend the
day wandering a battlefield or imagining the past close beside the churning
wheel of a paddle steamer.Â
Richard’s short stories
have won the Exeter Story Prize, the Bedford International Writing Competition
and the Nivalis Short Story Award. His first novel, Whirligig (2017) was
shortlisted for the Rubery International Book Award. It was followed by The
Copper Road (2020) and the Shire’s Union trilogy was completed by Tigers
in Blue (2023). To learn more about Richard’s writing visit www.richardbuxton.net.Â
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