Larry Jeram-Croft spent thirty years in the Royal Navy as a pilot and engineer. He then retired to work in industry for seven years before retiring for a second time. At that point he and his wife bought a yacht and went to live in the Caribbean. It was this experience that led to the idea for his first book.
Brought up on the books of C S Forester and Patrick O'Brien he was surprised that no one was writing similar stories about the modern Royal Navy, especially with so much going in in previous decades. As he was himself a Lynx helicopter pilot during the Falklands War, he decided to start there, using his own extensive knowledge of the conflict.
Larry now lives near Plymouth in Devon and spends most of his time writing and playing golf extraordinarily badly.
Age of Sail: Fiction
AOS Naval Fiction |
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| Year | Book | Comment |
| Diamant | Commodore Samuel Hood is short of ships and commissions Diamond Rock | |
AOS Naval Fiction/Fantasy Mix |
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| Series: The Jacaranda Trilogy | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| Jacaranda | Jack Vincent and his superyacht ‘Jacaranda’ rescue a man from the past | |
| The Guadeloupe Guillotine | Jacaranda returns to the past and arrives off Guadeloupe in 1794 | |
| Nautilus | Jacaranda must help Sir Sydney to entice the French out to sea | |
Modern Era: Fiction
Modern Era Naval Fiction |
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| Series: Jon Hunt | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| 1940 | Better Lucky and Good | Hunt can see the writing on the wall and decides to join the Royal Naval Air Service |
| and the Pilot can't swim | HMS Invincible is on the way tho help resupply Malta with Spitfires | |
| Get Bloody Stuck In | Lt. Cmdr. John Hunt returns to flying duties after his accident in the Mediterranean | |
| 1982 | Sea Skimmer | How do you counter your own weapon system when it's turned against you |
| 1983 | The Caspian Monster | Russia goes to full Nuclear Alert when a NATO listening station is discovered |
| Cocaine | The military is pitted against the Columbian drug smuggler cartels | |
| Arapaho | The British decide on a full evacuation of Beirut | |
| Bog Hammer | HMS Prometheus is tasked to maintain the safety of British interests in the Gulf area | |
| 1991 | Glasnost | Jon is caught up in a race against time to help end the Cold War forever. |
| 1995 | Retribution | Captain Jonathon Hunt joins the UN Protection Force UNPROFOR |
| Formidable | HMS Formidable is the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier and Hunt is in command. | |
| Conspiracy | In the wake of 9/11 Commodore Hunt is thrust into the middle of events | |
| Swan Song | Retirement does not suit Commodore Jon Hunt | |