Gulf of Lions (K)
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- By: Paul Weston
- Naval Fiction Releases
Paul Weston's new book, Gulf of Lions, will be released worldwide for Kindle on 9 March 2025. It is now available for pre-order.
Though Spain has entered the war against Britain on the side of Napoleonic France, the causus belli provided by the Royal Navy’s seizure of its treasure fleet, the Bonapartists are unpopular with the Spanish people. This will eventually lead to the uprisings and brutal repressions depicted by Goya, and the defeat of the French in the Peninsular War, but in 1805 Lieutenant Snowden RN is sent in HMS 'Oleander' to the Mediterranean on a secret mission to encourage the Spanish opposition. Snowden's gift for seizing opportunities takes 'Oleander' on a wide ranging cruise from the rocky creeks and tides of Brittany to the Mediterranean and Morocco.
The Imposter: Lieutenant Brent (K/PB)
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- By: Perry Comer
- Naval Fiction Releases
Perry Comer's new book, The Imposter: Lieutenant Brent, was recently released and is now available worldwide on Kindle and in Paperback.
In a world where the lines between valor and deceit blur, The Imposter: Lieutenant Brent catapults readers into the tumultuous landscape of early 1800s naval warfare. Meet Lieutenant Brent, a young man ensnared in a web of treachery after assuming the identity of a fallen midshipman. As he navigates the perilous waters of the Napoleonic Wars, his quest for honor leads him into the dark abyss of a French prison, where isolation and torment threaten to shatter his resolve.
Murky Waters (HC/PB/K)
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- By: Bradley John
- Naval Fiction Releases
Bradley John recently released the first book in a new series, Ships of War, which is intended to span the length of the French Revolutionary Wars. Murky Waters is available worldwide in Hardcover, Paperback and for Kindle.
1791 - England's cannon remain ever silent as her shipping is ruthlessly preyed upon, a detestable state of affairs soon to be remedied...
England is ill prepared, Europe is in turmoil and the French Revolution is readying to sweep across the continent. A tedious uneasy peace poises on a knife's edge. Britannia rules the waves, yet as more and more ships are mysteriously lost, it is rightly thought an act of war. However, England needs more time, or all could be lost.
A Merciful Sea (K/HC)
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- By: Katie Daysh
- Naval Fiction Releases
Katie Daysh's new book, A Merciful Sea, will be available worldwide for Kindle on 27 March 2025. The UK Hardcover will be released on the same day and there is no date for US Hardcover release yet. It is now available for pre-order.
An ocean divides them. Can their love survive the battles to come?
Arthur Courtney is a commander without a ship and without purpose. So when old friend Captain Henry Harrison offers him a place onboard HMS Lion, bound to join Nelson’s fleet in the Mediterranean, he is eager for the opportunity.
Broadside and Boarding (/K)
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- By: Antoine Vanner
- Non-Fiction Releases
In a departure from his Dawlish Chronicles series, Antoine Vanner has a new Age of Sail non-fiction book available for pre-order. Broadside and Boarding: Small scale action in the Age of Fighting Sail will be released for kindle download worldwide on 7 December 2024. Antoine has a popular blog which features these smaller scale actions and the book will doubtless be a good read.
Forgotten epics of the Age of Fighting Sail, 1740-1815
There were few great fleet battles such as Trafalgar during the total forty years of naval warfare waged by Britain across this era. Between these major encounters, however, were myriads of desperate but small-scale actions. Each in isolation could be local in its impact but they were, in aggregate, influential at the wider strategic level.
The Price of Victory (K/HC)
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- By: N. A. M. Rodger
- Non-Fiction Releases
N. A. M. Rodger recently released the final volume in his naval history trilogy. The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815 - 1945, is now available worldwide for Kindle and also in Hardcover in the UK.
At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840, as one contemporary commentator put it, the Admiralty was full of ‘intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar’. How the Royal Navy reformed and reinvigorated itself in the course of the nineteenth century is just one thread in this magnificent book, which refuses to accept standard assumptions and analyses.
New Pirate Trilogy Released by Commander Roger Johnson. USN
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- By: David Hayes
- David's HNF Blog
Commander Roger Johnson. USN has just released all 3 books of a new pirate fiction trilogy, Of Chains and Slavery. They are John Flint's Bastard, Slavery and Revenge and Treasure and Redemption. It is set in the world created by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island and they are available for Kindle and in paperback worldwide.
From the cover of the first book - "Welcome to the world of Joshua Smoot—the bastard son of Treasure Island's John Flint. From the first page of John Flint's Bastard to the last, you will experience the full spectrum of love versus hate, loyalty versus betrayal, freedom versus slavery, and the extremes of mankind's goodness and evil toward one another.
- Debatable Lands (K/PB)
- The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-and-Run off the Coast of Nantucket (HC)
- The Tortuga Plantation (PB/K)
- The Charles W. Morgan: The World's Last Wooden Whaleship (PB/K)
- Chesapeake Bound: An Annapolis Novel (PB/K)
- East Indiaman (HC/PB/K)
- Fletcher and the Constitution (K/PB)
- The Watch's Wild Cry: A Voyage Aboard the Whaling Vessel Clara Bell (HC/K)
