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Although she only started writing in 2004, Sue Allan has proved to be a proflic writer over the past eight years.

Published by Domtom Publishing, Sue's books are widely available in good book stores but also shipped world-wide by her publishers.

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Novels

'Like the fiction of films or costumed re-enactments, Sue Allan's historical novel takes us beyond court records and official memoirs to conversations and emotions whose reality went unrecorded. Cleverly noticing the Pilgrim Fathers least studied by historians, Sue invents a tale of adventure and romance that lets us imagine the life of a maidservant who chose to join the Mayflower Pilgrims. Well-researched and evocative.--- Jeremy Bangs, Director, Leiden American Pilgrim Museum and Pilgrim Father scholar.

Voted amongst the Best Reads of 2005 by BBC Radio 4's Open Book.

'About a year ago I read and enjoyed Mayflower Maid, which told the story of an obscure servant's adventures on the ship and in the New World. Now here is the sequel, and as middle books of trilogies so often tread water I wondered if the high standard would be there. I need not have worried because this is another excellent book, dealing with Bessie's reunion with her true husband Thomas, their stay in Jamestown and subsequent adventures back in England during the Civil War.

This is another book that manages expertly to get under the skin of C17th people, what drove them, their everyday lives, morals and concerns. There are probably fewer novels published about this century than any other in the past half millennium, so this is another treat. Even more so are the almost tangible descriptions of the places in the story, and the very real-seeming characters that populate them. No modern folk in historical dress here; this is history without the varnish and idealization, without too much dwelling on dirt and despair.

I felt that I had read a long story although this is a short book, and look forward to the final part with relish. Real historical fiction! - Rachel. A. Hyde, Histoical Novel Review.

This is the conclusion to the acclaimed trilogy which has so far numbered Mayflower Maid (amazon US || UK) and Jamestown Woman (amazon US || UK).

Bessie has already had enough adventures (and misadventures) to fill several lifetimes in the New World and during the Civil War; now she must survive the rigors of Cromwell’s reign and the triumphant return of the monarchy, as well as the woes of plague and fire.

It is good to get a novel about the 17th century, which is surely the least written about century in the last thousand years. So much happened then too — and most of it gets told in these three books.  They aren’t large books either, but I invariably prefer quality to quantity and there is certainly true quality here as well as a quantity of adventures, which is the best of both for a novel. 

Bessie tells the story, and she comes over very much as a woman of her time, getting under the skin of what it must have been like to have lived through such a significant period.  The other people in the book and their exploits have that all-important ring of authenticity about them too, making this very much a realistic book. 

 More from this author soon please — being able to spin the dross of history into the gold of story is not a common talent despite the wealth of historical fiction available.- Rachel Hyde 

 This novel tells the fascinating real-life story of Rose Hickman, nee Locke. Nearing the end of her life, she wrote a memoir, only part of which still survives. Having done a considerable amount of research, Sue Allan has reconstructed the ‘missing bits’. 

The Lockes and the Hickmans were prosperous London mercers, close to the Crown. They remained steadfast in the Protestantism throughout the turbulent years of the English Reformation. Their beliefs developed into what we today would call Nonconformist, and even when Protestantism was the established religion of England under Elizabeth I, the family suffered much hardship because of their faith.  

Sue Allan has made this subject her own in her trilogy that includes Mayflower Maid, Jamestown Woman, and Restoration Lady. Tudor Rose can be seen as a ‘prequel’. 

Lady Rose was born during the reign of Henry VIII and died during that of James I at the ripe old age of 87.

Sue Allan has put her heart and soul into bringing a long-forgotten lady to wider attention in what is, clearly, a labour of love...   Sally Zigmond,

               Historical   Novels  Review

 I am very excited about this, my latest historical fiction. For many years I grew up not knowing anything about my father's Canadian Weatherup family. Because neither did he. 

So, having been inspired by BBC's 'Who Do You Think You Are' television series and aided by the 'Ancestry' genealogy internet site, I decided it was time to find my family roots. 

What did I expect to find? A few skeletons in the family wardrobe for certain - and perhaps the reason why my Canadian-born father and his little sister had found themselves abandoned in London, England by his mother during the Great Depression and disowned by his father.

What I hadn't expect to find was a gruesome murder in the family that, one-hundred-and-thirty-years later has slipped into the realms of becoming an urban Halloween myth. 

'...an absorbing read. The stories are packed with information that conveys the conventions and attitudes affecting the characters, and portrays realistic and at times harrowing details, which leave a lasting impression on the reader.' Janet Williamson, 'Historic Novels Review'  February 2011 Edition'

Non-fiction books.

Steps along the Mayflower Trail is not intended to be a book about the Mayflower Pilgrims -or Separatists, as they were known before their voyage to America.

Instead, this book has been written as a reference companion for those who are already familiar with the Separatist's saga- but who are perhaps not so familiar with the places that feature in it.

Steps along the Mayflower Trail sets out to illuminate those villages, towns and buildings in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, that played major roles in their odyssey. These are the places that many of the Separatists would have once known as home.

Text by Sue Allan with photographs by Roger Vorhauer.

A part of the proceeds of this book goes to the Pilgrim churches of Scrooby, Babworth and Austerfield.

Because Sue had rediscovered so much lost information about Lady Rose Hickman and her important Locke family history, she felt that this non-fiction book was a must to write.

A natural companion book to her novel Tudor Rose, it contains numerous colour photographs and biographies of Lady Rose's nearest and dearest.

Coming Soon

Sue's new guide to Gainsborough Old Hall March 2012.

Sue's 'Scrooby Manor' also coming 2012.