April 2016

There is one brand new naval fiction title out this month together with some non-fiction releases.

Brief information is given below with links to the full website articles.

This month articles have appeared about the following books:

Non-Fiction

Jo Stanley has a new book available for pre-order in Paperback, From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea. It will be released in the UK on 4 April 2016 and in the US on 1 July 2016.

R. D. Madison (Editor) has a new book available for pre-order in Hardcover, The Essex and the Whale: Melville's Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick. It was released in the UK on 28 March 2016 and will be available in the US on 30 May 2016.

David O. Dowling has a new book available for pre-order in various formats, Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck. It will be available for kindle download worldwide on 12 April 2016 and the Hardcover and Paperback versions will also be released in the US on that date. In the UK the print versions will be released on 26 May 2016.

Each month I provide a short bio of one of the authors on the site. This month we will look at Noel Bertram Gerson

Noel Bertram Gerson (1914-1988), whose novels are often listed as by Noel B. Gerson, was an American history author, who also wrote as Dana Fuller Ross; Donald Clayton Porter; Samuel Edwards; Carter A. Vaughan; Leon Phillips; Philip Vail, and Paul Lewis. The main themes of his writing included personalities and events in American history, including biographies of Sam Houston, Kit Carson and Presidents Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt. As Dana Fuller Ross, he wrote the popular ''Wagons West'' series; as Donald Clayton Porter, he wrote the ''White Indian'' series. Two of his novels, ''55 Days at Peking'' and ''The Naked Maja,'' were made into movies. In total he wrote 325 books of fact and fiction under his own name and the pseudonyms some of which are naval or nautical fiction.

First editions or first paperback releases this month

Fiction

Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country by Chuck Pfarrer (Hardcover - Worldwide)

It is due for release on 15 April 2016 (US) & 30 April 2016 (UK)

Non-Fiction

From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea by Jo Stanley (Paperback - UK)

It is due for release on 4 April 2016

Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck by David O. Dowling (Hardcover - Worldwide)

It is due for release on 12 April 2016

The Essex and the Whale: Melville's Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick by R. D. Madison (Editor) (Hardcover - US)

It is due for release on 30 April 2016

David Hayes reviews Harry Heron: Into the Unknown by Patrick G. Cox

Read the Review

Roland: Of Pirates and Patriots by Timothy Freriks

Michael Aye is holding a 'Name that Ship' competition. As fans of his Fighting Anthonys series will know his books have a one word title named after a specific ship. If you would like to name one of those ships and hence a book in the series this is your opportunity.

The Contest will start June 1st 2016 and end July 1st 2016 and the winner will be named by July 4th. The ship will be a razed French 64, now a 44 and it will be the ship Gabe captures in Leopard and probably will be his ship for the remainder of the series which is likely to be 2 or 3 more books. The winner will get book #2 of the first numbered and signed by the author certifying the number as soon as it is published. They will also be given signed copies of his War 1812 Trilogy which will be sent as soon as a winner is chosen.

Submissions via 'Contact Me' on the author's website michaelaye.com

Last month in my article 'Fox is Back' I reported that Adam Hardy's series about George Abercrombie Fox was coming back into print together with ebook versions.

I am pleased to advise that all the books in the series have now been released.

Do you enjoy reading the books? If so why not chat about them in the forum at: historicnavalfiction.net

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