David O'Neil is an Artist and Photographer who started writing seriously with a series of Highland guide books. His boyhood ambitions were to fly an aeroplane, and sail a boat. As a boy his family were bombed out of their home in London. He learned to fly with the RAF 1950-52 during National Service and started sailing boats while serving in the Colonial Police, in Nyasaland (Malawi). He spent 8 years there, before returning to UK. Since then he has lived in southern England where he became a management consultant, for over twenty years. He returned to live in Scotland in 1980, and became a tour guide in 1986. He started writing in 2006, the first guide book being published in 2007. A further two have been published since then. He started writing fiction in 2007.
AOS Naval Fiction
Series: Forest-Bowers series
Sailing Orders : An abandoned 13 year old is placed as a midshipman in his benefactor's ship
Quarterdeck : Captain Bowers is involved with preventing treasure ships from falling into French hands
Winning : Captain Sir Martin Forest-Bowers through the War of 1812
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Desperate Measures : Lieutenant Robert Salter and his courageous crew must contend with the French and Spanish navies
AOS Privateer Fiction
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Privateer : Robert Shaw is sailing under a Letter of Marque from the Governor of Jamaica
Modern Era Naval Fiction
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Better the Day : WWII:Peter Murray of Coastal Forces face overwhelming odds fighting German E-boats
In Dangerous Waters : Can courageous naval officers do their duty rescuing British agents from certain death
HMS Audax : The British convoy was attacked as it approached the port of Liverpool
