REVIEW: ‘Act of Oblivion’ by Robert Harris

Two men flee across a continent, wanted dead or alive. Their crime? They killed the King… History records that Puritans Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, William Goffe, fled to America to escape the Act of Oblivion, passed in 1660, pardoning all Civil War participants except the 59 who had signed the death warrant for King […]