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Civilizations and Conspiracies

By: Howard Headworth

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Civilizations and Conspiracies

By: Howard Headworth

Howard Headworth retired to southern Spain twenty years ago. He was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, and trained as a geologist at Aberystwyth and Imperial College. He is a hydrogeologist by profession, having spent most of his career in southern England where, after water privatisation in 1989, he became managing director of Southern Science, an environmental company within the Southern Water plc group. With his wife, Sarah Steines, he is the author of an English/Spanish and Spanish/English Dictionary of Environmental Science and Engineering published by John Wiley and Sons in 1998. The former Moorish kingdom of Andalucia fascinated him on his arrival in Spain and he has written two historic novels covering the years before and after the fall of Granada in 1492 to the Christian monarchs, Isabel and Fernando. The Al-Andalus Chronicle and Spain's Pursuit of Destiny are both translated into Spanish in Al-Andalus, Sus Asltimos Anos, and Espana en la Busqueda de Su Destino. All four books are published by New Generation Publishing.His fourteen short stories in Civilisations and Conspiracies range freely through space and time with some thought-provoking and tongue-in-cheek themes.

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1785075330

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9781785075339

Espana En La Busqueda de Su Destino

Los Anos de Colon

By: Howard Headworth

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Espana En La Busqueda de Su Destino

Los Anos de Colon

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It is two years after the entry in Granada by the Christians in 1492. In this brilliant sequel to his first historical novel Al-Andalus: His last years, Howard Headworth elaborates a rich mix of personal drama and historical detail, and presents a magnificent sense of the place. Including the military campaigns of the great captain in Italy against the French, the wedding of the Infanta Jeanne in Flanders with Philip the Beautiful, the scandals of the Borgias in Rome and The Adventures of Christopher Columbus in the Indies in search of gold, the Catholic Monarchs seeks To forge the future grandeur and destiny of Spain. Howard Headworth lives in Almeria, Spain, for twenty years. He was born in Wales and studied geology at the university there and at the Imperial College in London. He uses his great experience as a scientific director as well as his passion for the history of his adopted country in this historical novel.

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1785071017

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9781785071010

Spain's Pursuit of Destiny

The Columbus Years

By: Howard Headworth

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Spain's Pursuit of Destiny

The Columbus Years

By: Howard Headworth

It is 1493. The Catholic Monarchs have vanquished the Muslim kingdom of al-Andalus and banished the Jews from Spain. Our hero, Don Pedro Togeiro, has joined Spain's greatest military commander, Don Gonzalo Fernandez of Cordoba, the Gran Capitan himself, to expel the marauding French forces from Italy, while his sultry raven-haired Moorish wife, Raquel, has accompanied Princess Juana to Flanders for her wedding to the womanising Archduke Philip of Austria where he savagely assaults her. Meanwhile, the dynastic Borgias are scandalising Rome and in the Indies Christopher Columbus continues his search for gold, convinced that he's reached China. Spain is on the threshold of greatness as Isabel and Fernando forge its destiny, but fate intervenes. Famine, earthquake and disease decimate Spain, while the tragic death of three heirs to the throne and the growing madness of heiress Juana draw Spain inexorably into the Habsburg Empire. Spain's Pursuit of Destiny: The Columbus Years, Howard Headworth's brilliant follow-up to The Al-Andalus Chronicle, has a rich blend of personal drama, historical detail and a superb sense of place. Raquel's ordeal, Pedro's kidnap in Tuscany and the epic battle of Cerignola are laid like bright tapestries before our present-day eyes. When Pedro's family, following the destruction of their castle-home, decide to seek new pastures in the West Indies, the picture is complete, and we have Spain's chequered destiny in a nutshell.

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1910266256

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Al-Andalus

Sus Ultimos Anos

By: Howard Headworth

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Al-Andalus

Sus Ultimos Anos

By: Howard Headworth

The exciting historical novel by Howard Headworth takes us to the 1480s in Spain. For the Spaniards it is the dawn of the golden age of the country. For the moors of Al-Andalus in the south, it is the beginning of a bitter harvest. And Far west, a new world beckons..... Glorious descriptions of battles and conflicts, the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, the tracing of historical events leading to the entrance of the Catholic monarchs in Granada in 1492, a panoply of characters, profiles of the traditions and skills of the Muslim peasants in Al-Andalus, and finally the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Indies, make this book a unique treasure. Howard Headworth lives in Almeria, Spain, for twenty years. He was born in Wales and studied geology at the university there and in London. He uses his great experience as a scientific director as well as his passion for the history of his adopted country in this historical novel.

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1785071009

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Spain's Pursuit of Destiny

The Columbus Years

By: Howard Headworth

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The Columbus Years

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Civilizations and Conspiracies

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Civilizations and Conspiracies

Civilizations and Conspiracies

Espana En La Busqueda de Su Destino

Espana En La Busqueda de Su Destino

Spain's Pursuit of Destiny

Spain's Pursuit of Destiny

Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus

Spain's Pursuit of Destiny

Spain's Pursuit of Destiny

Civilizations and Conspiracies

Civilizations and Conspiracies

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