Julian Stockwin
The Baltic Prize
The Baltic Prize takes us to Scandinavia at the beginning of the 19th century. The Anglo-Russian War, September 1807–1812, took…
Persephone
1807: Napoleon has turned his attention to Portugal. Sir Thomas Kydd is ordered to Lisbon to assist in the evacuation…
The Powder of Death
Julian Stockwin is an author usually associated with exciting adventures at sea. However, this novel focuses on a different type…
Inferno
During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain learns that Napoleon has made peace with Russia and Prussia, thereby creating trading arrangements with…
Tyger: A Kydd Sea Adventure
In the early 1800s, with the Napoleonic Wars still raging, Captain Kydd brings his frigate, L’Aurore, into Plymouth Hoe. He…
Pasha
In Pasha Julian Stockwin rescues the Dardanelles campaign of 1807 from the Archive of Forgotten Wars. In that year the…
The Silk Tree
There came certain monks who promised Emperor Justinian Augustus that they would provide the means for making silk from Sinae…
Pasha
Having done their duty at Trafalgar (1805) and subsequently elsewhere, notably Curaçao, Captain Kydd and his frigate are recalled by…
Caribbee: A Kydd Sea Adventure
During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Thomas Kydd, aboard HMS L’Aurore, is assigned to the Caribbean and the Leeward Islands station.…
Betrayal
Editors' choice
‘The repossession of Buenos Aires has been stained with such deliberate acts of treachery and perfidy as are not to…
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