Nautical
Active’s Measure
Book One of the Pennywhistle Series initiates the adventures of Captain Thomas Pennywhistle of the Royal Marines during the Napoleonic…
The Winds of Folly
In 1796, British captain Nathan Peake is ordered to proceed to the Adriatic Sea aboard the Unicorn. He is to…
Fortune’s Whelp
In 1695, Scotsman Edward MacNaughton, former buccaneer captain, pirate, and fencing master, is on a mission in Ireland, delivering important…
Journeys into the New World
Jay Prasad, in Journeys into the New World, very effectively uses a few different, converging narrative devices in support of…
Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys has written a fictionalized account of the single deadliest maritime tragedy in history, and the least known: the…
Gone to Sea in a Bucket
A promising new series debuts with David Black’s first Harry Gilmour novel. It’s the beginning of World War II, and…
A Hard, Cruel Shore: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
The 22nd installment of Lewrie’s adventures unfolds in 1809, after the disaster at Corunna. The future Duke of Wellington is…
Captain in Calico
Readers know the late George MacDonald Fraser as the author of the Flashman series, that wickedly funny long-term diatribe on…
A Singular Captain
In 1518, the young king of Castile, Carlos V, decided to finance a five-ship expedition led by famous Portuguese navigator…
Winterwood: Rowankind, Book One
Rossalinde “Ross” Tremayne is a young widow who took up cross-dressing to carry on her husband’s pirating career during the…
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