The second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for…
New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth century, capturing the bravery, battles, and bloodshed of Britain's peninsular wars with this epic tale …
Majesticis a novel set in the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars as the Royal Navy fights the French for supremacy across the oceans of the world. It continues the career of Midshipman Johnni…
Midshipman Johnnie Wharton has no idea when he joins HMS St George as a 12-year-old that he is soon to take part in some of the greatest sea battles of Nelson’s Royal Navy. Life aboard his next ship HM…
With French Revolutionary agents travelling freely but secretly between Ireland and England and war with France inevitable, the English government of Mr Pitt is desperately anxious to uncover any plot…
France and Britain are finally at peace and many of the ships in the Royal Navy’s vast fleet are laid up. In the circumstances, Lieutenant John Wharton RN is amazed to be able to find the position of …
Bloody Nick returns from the Mediterranean tired – he has done too much, seen too much, and needs rest at home. His ship, HBMS Hawke, needs time in the yard.
Clear for Action continues the extraordinary true story of the naval career of the Irish sailor Amos Freeman Westropp, during the later stages of the Napoleonic Wars. Clear for Action covers Westropp’s…
It is the reign of Charles II and Barbary pirates are causing mayhem and terror in the Mediterranean. Nineteen-year-old Ralph Wrenn has been at sea since the age of ten. Recently promoted, he now serv…
The freshly promoted Lieutenant Johnnie Wharton RN, now recovered from the horrors of the Battle of the Nile, is ordered to Plymouth to join the Royal Navy’s newest battleship HMS Ajax as secondlieut…
When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two a badly scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the morning mi…
In 1804, Captain John Wharton RN takes command of HMS Leopard, his first as captain as the war with France continues for yet another year. A 38-gun frigate, Leopard is the newest ship in the Royal Nav…
Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant,…
