Beloved Exile

Iestyn Mortymer, captured during the chartist Rebellion, is tried at the

Monmouth Assizes and sentenced to twenty-one years transportation

for crimes against Her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria. Torn from his

young wife Mari, he is exiled to Afghanistan - a country as violated and

outraged as his native Wales.

On all sides Iestyn witnesses signs of increasing hostility towards the

English, and of the crumbling edifice of the Empire. Involved in the appalling

''Afghan Promenade'' that cost the British army 17,000 lives, caught up by

intrigue, murder and deadly deception, he cannot escape the fact that this

is a time when every white face in the country is dubbed an Unbeliever, every

redcoat a potential target of violence. Yet, despite everything, there is another

escape that he is determined to make. Back to Wales...

An epic blend of history and fiction, a swirling canvas of politics, war, servitude

and passion, BELOVED EXILE marks the glorious culmination of Alexander

Cordell''s Welsh sagas.