Battle of Naseby - in Fiction

In Fiction

The battle features in the earlier part of Rosemary Sutcliff's historical fiction Simon. Ann Turnbull's historical novel Alice in Love and War illustrates the parlamentarians' attack and slaughter of the unarmed female camp-followers. It also serves as the historical background to a series of murders in the episode The Dark Rider of the tv-series Midsomer Murders.

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