July 2016

This month there is news of some recent naval fiction releases as well as some other nautical books which will be out this month..

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

This month articles have appeared about the following books:

Fiction

Lyle Garford has just released the second book in The Evan Ross Series, The Sugar Revolution. It is now available in paperback and for kindle download worldwide.

Andrew Wareham has just released a new book in his Duty and Destiny Series. Far Foreign is now available worldwide for Kindle download.

Other Nautical Fiction

Helen Hollick has a new book in her Sea Witch series available for pre-order, On the Account. It will be available for kindle download on 7 July 2016.

Each month I provide a short bio of one of the authors on the site. This month we will look at Peter Greene

Peter Greene is the author of The Adventures of Jonathan Moore a young adult series and its first book Skull Eye Island (now renamed Warship Poseidon) won the 2012 Clive Cussler Grand Master award sponsored by the Clive Cussler Collector's Society.

He was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, to artistic parents and attended Warren Township High-School in Gurnee, Illinois and later graduated from Illinois State University with BS in Theatre and Speech Education. Moving to Los Angeles, Peter wrote a short sci-fi story called “The Education” that was re-written as a screenplay with Patrick Read Johnson and was eventually optioned by 20th Century Fox under the name ”Fortress”. In the mid to late eighties, various plays he penned were produced by small theatre companies, including a full blown musical using his original score, though his main focus was his business career and family. However, writing was always being done secretly and in his precious spare time. Three screen plays and stage plays were written and sat on a hard drive somewhere...many years passed.

In 2007, following a request by his wife to read a bedtime story to his two children, Peter decided to make one up on the spot, and Skull Eye Island was born. His wife urged him to create a novel of the story.He lives in Arizona, with his wife and two children.

First editions or first paperback releases this month

Non-Fiction

Title: From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea

Author: Jo Stanley

Regions: US

Format(s): Paperback

Release Date: 1 July 2016

Pirate Fiction

Title: On the Account

Author: Helen Hollick

Regions: Worldwide

Format(s): Paperback/Kindle

Release Date: 7 July 2016

The Holy Sail by Abdul Aziz al Mahmoud "brings to life a neglected episode of history that impacted not only the region but the world for centuries to come"

Whilst information on latest releases is always welcome, there is an increasing volume of work that becomes out of copyright and is made available for your ereader via sites like archive.org.

For a list of free HNF ebooks, which includes some free copyrighted short stories kindly made available on my site by authors Alexander Kent, Michael Aye and Alec Merrill, you can visit the Free eBooks page.

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

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