Latest Releases
This Section contains articles about new Age of Sail books released or due to be released. For a list of upcoming books please view the Releases Calendar
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- By: John G. Cragg
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John G. Cragg's new book, A War in Baltic Waters: At Home and at Sea, 1807-II, was recently released worldwide in Paperback and for Kindle.
Giles and Daphne finally take up residence in their renovated mansion in London’s Mayfair district. Having their own place to stay in London will make it easier for Giles to fulfill his duties in the House of Lords. Daphne now can take her proper place in London’s very status-conscious society. Both can now enjoy the capital’s cultural and intellectual offerings. To enhance their status, the government rewards Giles by making him a Marquess.
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- By: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin's new novel, Admiral, will be released worldwide in kindle and audio formats on 10 October 2024 and is available for pre-order. Hardcover is also available in the UK and in the US where it will be released on 7 January 2025.
1814: Ashore on leave, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd learns of a dismal harvest and general hardship among the population. In Germany, Napoleon Bonaparte is celebrating victories that once again make his name feared throughout Europe. An armistice is signed and while the Allies lick their wounds Bonaparte sets to preparing for a grand advance. And, in a fragile peace, and saddled with huge war debts, the government has no choice but to place HMS Thunderer, along with many other Royal Navy ships, in reserve, until the Navy can decide what to do with their great fleets.
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- By: Robin Burnage
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Robin Burnage's new book, The Threat In The Atlantic, is now available worldwide in Hardcover and for Kindle.
Barely months after returning from the Adriatic, Captain Sir James Merriman is enjoying some rare time with his wife and children. But his nation is exhausted by an apparently endless war and Napoleon’s continental system is denying Britain crucial supplies. Worse still, the French 80-gun ship Hercule has captured numerous British ships near the Cape of Good Hope. Captained by a wily veteran known as the lone wolf, the Hercule presents Merriman with his greatest adversary yet.
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- By: M. Howard Morgan
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The next book in M. Howard Morgan's Jack Vizzard series, St Valentine's Fleet, is now available worldwide for Kindle.
Jack Vizzard, now a Captain in King George’s Corps of Marines, and his Sergeant Major, Joe Packer, are assigned to HMS Melampus, a frigate under the command of Captain Graham Moore patrolling the Atlantic. Both men enjoy a solid reputation until a fight ashore at Portsmouth leads to an arrest, a court martial, and a deadly enmity with a Naval officer.
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- By: D. E. Stockman
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The next book in D. E. Stockman's Tween Sea and Shore series, On Waves of Glory is now available for pre-order. The Kindle version will be released worldwide on 1 May 2024.
Young naval cadet Guy must make a choice … please his love, Marie, or his father …
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- By: J. D. Davies
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The next book in J. D. Davies Philippe Kermorvant Thrillers, The Cursed Shore is now available for pre-order. The paperback version will be released in the UK on 27 June 2024 and the Kindle version worldwide on 27 July 2024. A Date for the US paperback is awaited..
A looming invasion. A doomed voyage… There’s blood in the water.
Philippe Kermorvant, unfairly dismissed from the French Revolutionary Navy, accepts command of a privateer from its enigmatic owner. Having ignored his early misgivings, the mission quickly takes a dark turn, endangering the lives of everyone on board.
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- By: William C. Hammond
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William C. Hammond has a new book in the 'Cutler Family Chronicles', A Return to Duty, available for pre-order. It will be released worldwide in Paperback on 3 September 2024.
A Return to Duty, the eighth volume in the award-winning Cutler Family Chronicles series, is set in Massachusetts and the Orient in the early 1850s during the aftermath of the First Opium War fought between China and Great Britain. The subsequent flood of opium into North America and Europe, from Turkey and the eastern provinces of India through China, threatens the very fabric of America.
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- By: Jonathan Spencer
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Jonathan Spencer has a new book in 'The William John Hazzard Series', Hazzard's Convoy, available for pre-order. It will be released worldwide for Kindle download and in the UK in Paperback on 23 May 2024. No date is currently available for the US Paperback. The series follows a Royal Marine officer and the previous 3 books have also been added to the site.
Late 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power in Paris as an Ottoman army of 80,000 descends upon Egypt. Abandoned, French general Kléber wants to get his soldiers home, their only hope a rescue fleet led by the deadly 74-gun Généreux. For William John Hazzard and the marines of 9 Company the order is clear: find the Généreux.
