Nautical
A Hard, Cruel Shore: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
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The 22nd installment of Lewrie’s adventures unfolds in 1809, after the disaster at Corunna. The future Duke of Wellington is reversing British fortunes ...Read Review
Albemarle
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Albemarle is the story of a ship—and a battle for the control of a river—which had strategic consequences in the final ...Read Review
Tyger: A Kydd Sea Adventure
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In the early 1800s, with the Napoleonic Wars still raging, Captain Kydd brings his frigate, L’Aurore, into Plymouth Hoe. He is home ...Read Review
Waterloo: The Bravest Man
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With the Bicentenary of Waterloo this year, Swanston’s novel takes us into the thick of the campaign. We experience both the confusion ...Read Review
An Irish Doctor in Love and at Sea
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Fans of Patrick Taylor’s highly entertaining Irish Country Doctor series will not be disappointed with this latest book. The novel is told ...Read Review
Water Ghosts
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Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyNautical
James McCafferty would rather be anywhere else than on this Chinese Junk his mother has forced him onto. Meant to be adventure therapy ...Read Review
Alex’s Wake: The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany, and a Grandson’s Journey of Love and Remembrance
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In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut Goldschmidt, along with more than 900 other Jewish refugees, flee Nazi Germany on board the SS St. ...Read Review
Lifeline Across the Sea: Mercy Ships in the Second World War
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Clausewitz famously coined the phrase ‘total war’ and defined it as an ideal state. This did not mean, as some suppose, that he ...Read Review
The Scent of Corruption
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During the Napoleonic Wars, the British Royal Navy is the mightiest navy in the world. HMS Prometheus, led by Captain Sir Richard Banks, ...Read Review
Muskets & Dreams
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The plot line of Muskets & Dreams is quite simple: Nathaniel Devarre, former pirate and companion of Henry Morgan, encounters Elizabeth Rawlins, wife ...Read Review
