David's HNF Blog
My HNF blog includes author interviews, subsequent edition releases, any other nautical literature news, etc.
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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.
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There's good news for fans of C.S. Forester's famous naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. C. Northcote Parkinson's companion book The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower is to be reprinted. A paperback version will be available in the US on 2 April 2024 and UK on 2 June 2024. It is now available for pre-order.
At the same time his anthology, Portsmouth Point: The Navy in Fiction, 1793-1815, will also be reprinted
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I've just added a new author to the site, George Edwardson. Of particular interest may be his two book 'The Sea Officer' series. This follows the extraordinary true career of Irish sailor Amos Freeman Westropp who spent over 30 years in the Royal Navy during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars.
He served in a dozen ships and fought in some of the great sea battles of the time against the French, Dutch and Spanish fleets during the course of which he met, amongst others, Admiral Lord Nelson, Admiral Villeneuve, the Duke of Wellington and the Emperor Napoleon.
Amos Freeman Westropp is presumably an ancestor of the author who writes under a pseudonym but is George Westropp, an amateur historian and genealogist.
Also available is his four book 'The Wharton Series' the most recent book of which, Goliath, was released in September 2023.
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Author Mark M. McMillin has been updated with a new Privateer series, Captain Bloody Mary, the Queen's Privateer. Set in Elizabethan times with a female 'hero', it consists of three books, The Butcher's Daughter: A Journey Between Worlds, Blood for Blood: The Uncertain Journey and Ill Winds Blowing Across a Troubled Sea: The Journey's End
