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The Pirate’s Bastard
This short mid-18th century novel is awash in seafaring legal and piratical, secrets, courtship, blackmail and colonial history of North…
Gentleman Captain
Fictional accounts of the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail, while exciting, tend to follow a predictable storyline of…
Blown Off Course
Blown Off Course is the seventh in David Donachie’s adventures of John Pearce, radical, press-ganged man, and reluctant Navy officer.…
Pirates of the Levant
The sixth novel in the Captain Alatriste series is a rousing sea adventure that takes place in the Mediterranean and…
The Fighting Temeraire: The Battle of Trafalgar and the Ship that Inspired J.M.W. Turner’s Most Beloved Painting
Sam Willis is no stranger to the world of the wooden walls of England and the Jack Tars who manned…
Trade Winds
Trade Winds is this author’s first novel. Set in 1732, the story begins in Scotland, moves to Gothenburg, Sweden, and…
The Tide of War
Sailors are a superstitious lot. Firm believers in an unlucky ship, the officers assigned to them face innumerable problems in…
The Admiral’s Game
This is the fifth in the series of novels about John Pearce, a naval officer by default rather than proper…
The Pirate Devlin
After the success of Pirates of the Caribbean and its sequels, walking the plank, pieces of eight and buried treasure…
The Time of Terror
This novel opens in 1793 with Nathaniel Peake, master and commander of the British brig sloop Nereus, patrolling the sea…
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