Sparrowhawk — Jack Frake
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Sparrowhawk — Jack Frake
| Full title | Sparrowhawk, Book One: Jack Frake |
|---|---|
| Author | Edward Cline |
| Published | 2001 |
| Pages | 360 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The first volume of Edward Cline’s six-book Sparrowhawk sequence, which follows two young Englishmen from smuggling and the customs wars of the 1740s through to the American Revolution — a series explicitly about trade, contraband and the ideas that turned into a revolution. |
Where I heard about it
- A crowd-sourced X thread — in the replies to @moseskagan asking “What historical fiction should I read next? (Bonus points for something involving building or trade, rather than violence)” (the thread, April 2025); the full list is on What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
About this edition
The recommendation named the whole Sparrowhawk series, so this card stands for the series, filed under its first volume.
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Historical Fiction — the genre the thread was asking about.
What links here
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