Marshall Godwin | Author
I am a writer of novels. I used to write medical articles and medical books. I was an academic family doctor and professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland. I'm retired now, and in my retirement I've become an author of fiction — a novelist. Learn more
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Feature Novel
2066: Though it take a thousand years…
This book is different from any other book I have written. It is a mixture of historical fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. I am calling it a speculative fiction novel, a genre which has various definitions. Perhaps readers will see it has a story that is self-serving, self-glorifying even, given that my surname and the surname of the lead character is identical.
It is about the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, King Harold II. He died in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when William the Conqueror came across the strait from Normandy, defeated him, and became king of England, ‘by virtue of conquest’. Harold’s family took their family name from Harold’s father whose name was Godwin. Hence, Harold is referred to as Harold Godwin or Harold Godwinson. The Godwins in England were mostly hunted down and slaughtered, at least those who did not go into exile in Ireland and Europe. Over the centuries, the members of the Godwin family, and other Anglo-Saxons, scattered throughout the world in a diaspora of the Anglo-Saxon people. There is a myth, or perhaps it is real, that the Godwins, on the death of King Harold II, said, “Though it take a thousand years, an Anglo-Saxon would again sit on the throne of England.” The year 2066 will be a thousand years from 1066 when the Battle of Hastings took place and King Harold Godwin II died.
The world does not know what the Anglo-Saxons are planning. This book tells the world that story. Is it real or just the musings of a group of people hoping to recover ancient glory?
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Novels by Marshall Godwin
Other Novels
Mary Jane
Mary Jane was born, lived her life, and died on the south coast of Newfoundland. A life of tragedy. A life of poverty come riches. There were husbands, children, suitors, and evil men. Mary Jane was a strong woman who carried herself with pride and stood fast to protect and raise her children well. Her early life was marked by a series of tragic losses. A woman of lesser metal would have been broken for a lifetime. But Mary Jane grieved, then rose from the tragedy, and married a wealthy businessman.
The Newfoundland Series
The Case of the Old Man with the Hat (2021)
Charlie and Mary, at the end of the book Charlie Freake from Scilly Cove, decide to start a private investigator agency called Charlie and Mary: Private Eyes. (continue reading)
Home to Liza (2018)
A stand alone novel, set in Newfoundland and covers a time span from the 1950′s to the present day. It is a story of an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. (continue reading)
Charlie Freake from Scilly Cove (2018)
A family tradition, and the persistent nagging of his father, had Charlie looking for a woman to marry and bear a son. (continue reading)
On The Wharf (2019)
Standing on a wharf in Port St. William, a small outport in Newfoundland, Uncle John and young Johnnie share stories from their lives as they watch the sun rise out of the ocean every Saturday morning. (continue reading)
The Beothuk Series
Medical / Other
