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March 2013Last month I was privileged to get an interview with David Healey after the release of his new novel First Voyage. It's a quiet month for new titles, although there is news of several non-fiction works that can now be pre-ordered. Brief information is given below with links to the full website articles. |
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Recent Latest Release ArticlesThis month articles have appeared about the following books which have been published or are available for pre-order Non-Fiction |
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J. D. Davies has a new book Britannia's Dragon: A Naval History of Wales which is now available for pre-order in hardcover. It will be released worldwide on 1 July 2013. |
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Author Mark Lardas has a new book British Frigate Vs French Frigate: 1793 to 1814 which is now available for pre-order in paperback. It will be released worldwide on 21 May 2013. |
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Philip MacDougall has a new book London and the Georgian Navy which is now available for pre-order in paperback. It will be released in the US on 11 June 2013 and in the UK on 1 July 2013. |
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Author Richard Woodman's latest book The Merchant Navy is now available for pre-order in paperback. It will be released in the UK on 10 April 2013 and in the US on 23 April 2013. |
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A new book Navy, Nation and Nelson: The Rise of British Sea Power 1688-1815Nation and Nelson: The Rise of British Sea Power 1688-1815 edited by Quintin Colville, with a Foreword by N. A. M. Rodger and contributions from James Davey, is now available for pre-order in hardcover. It will be released worldwide on 15 June 2013. |
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Angus Konstam has a new book which is now available for pre-order worldwide in paperback, Blackbeard's Last Fight: Pirate Hunting in North Carolina 1718. It is due to be released on 18 June 2013. |
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Other Nautical Fiction |
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Author Rick Spilman has a new short story which is now available worldwide for Kindle, Bloody Rain: Murder, Madness & the Monsoon. |
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Featured Author |
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Each month I provide a short bio of one of the authors on the site. This month we will look at J. D. Davies.
He found that very little had been published about the seventeenth century navy since the 1920s, and that most of the books that did exist seemed to side unthinkingly with Samuel Pepys, accepting uncritically his opinions and evidence about the issues of the time. He has written factual books about the period and has now started a series of naval fiction also set in the time of Charles II and the Anglo-Dutch Wars, The Journals of Matthew Quinton. |
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Books with a release date this monthFirst editions or first paperback releases this month Fiction |
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The Blast that Tears the Skies by J. D. Davies (Hardcover - Worldwide) It is due for release on 19 March 2013 |
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Author Interviews Last Month |
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David Healey, author of First Voyage Among the questions asked were: What led you to bring together the age of sail navy with both gryphons and elemental powers? What have you planned for the future of The Sea Lord Chronicles? |
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Book Reviews |
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David Hayes reviews Hostile Shores by Dewey Lambdin |
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David Hayes reviews Ripples in the Sand by Helen Hollick |
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J. D. Davies is an historian and author. Born in in Llanelli on the coast of south-west Wales, a treacherous coast notorious for shipwrecks, the sea has always exerted a strong pull on his life and a fascination with warships and naval history can probably be dated to a family holiday in Portsmouth.