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Thursday, June 25 at 11:00pm
I really enjoy the gripping action and I appreciate the detailed descriptions of the ship's workings, but, as in The Jackass Frigate, Alaric Bond gets my highest marks for bringing to life the crew and officers of Vigilant...
This is one of the grimmest (and, yes, boring) sea stories I have ever read. A Galleon leaves Manila bound for Panama and encounters a seemingly endless series of typhoons. The despotic soldiers in command of the ship clash with the sailing masters and crew...
The Paperback version of The Gathering Storm by Peter Smalley is now available for pre-order in the UK, release date 6 May 2010...
Author Sean Thomas Russell has a new novel which is now available for pre-order, A Battle Won. Winter 1793 - the Reign of Terror rips through revolutionary France, as every able-bodied man is pressed into military service...
The Santa Margarita was a Manila Galleon and one of the largest sailing vessels in the world...
Author Tom Bowling hasa new book out which is now availablefor pre-order in paperback, A Brief History of Pirates and Buccaneers. From Stevenson's "Treasure Island" to "Pirates of the Caribbean", the romantic image of pirates in popular culture has long been with us...
Author J.D. Davies has won the fourth Samuel Pepys Awardfor his authoritative study of the fledgling Royal Navy - Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-1689...
Author David Donachie has a new novel which is now available for pre-order, An Ill Wind. It is 1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home - to gain their freedom and, using the evidence they have, put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock...
Author Sam Willis hasa new book out which is now availablein hardcover, The Fighting Temeraire. Available through Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com H.M.S Temeraire, one of Britain's most illustrious fighting ships, is known to millions through J.M.W...
Over the years while reading naval fiction I have become familiar with history of the navies of Nelson's time. With this new book 'Gentleman Captain' I have started to learn about the time of the Restoration, the period in which the norms we take for granted in Nelsonian books were being formulated...
Author Steph Minns hasa new book outwhich is now available in paperback, One Man Drowning. Based aroundthe struggle between smugglers and the Revenue men it may be of interest to readers of the genre...
I've just finished reading this novel and have mixed views. On the positive side it was a good read and fits the series well...
Astrodene's Historic Naval Fiction I've been adding French Language novels (Livres en Français) to the Canadian online store
The slightly amended version of The Jackass Frigate by Alaric Bond, which brings it into the Fighting Sail series, has now been released. As Alaric told us in his recent interview one of the changes is that throughout there are references to the previous ship of the main characters...
