Tom Bowling is a Londoner born into a seafaring family in the Neckinger, a part of Bermondsey allegedly named after the Devil's Neckinger or noose worn by pirates executed there.
He is writing a series of novels about Jean Cotterrel, set at the end of the 18th century at sea, in Britain, in the Channel Islands and in Revolutionary France.
Age of Sail: Fiction
AOS Naval Fiction
Series: Jean Cotterrel
The Antigallican : 1794: Jersey fishing captain, Jean Cotterell is rescued by a French frigate off the Grand Banks of Nova Scotia
Non-Fiction
AOS Other Non-Fiction
Series: n/a
Pirates and Privateers : This is a lively history of piracy, from ancient times through the Renaissance "privateers" with their Letters of Marque
A Brief History of Pirates and Buccaneers : Explores many of the myths and true stories about the notorious outlaws of the oceans