Mega Contest!
Thought we’d have a little bit of fun with this one! For a chance to win a copy of Tyger, The Silk Tree & Stockwin’s Maritime Miscellany (plus a mystery prize) email me with a response to this question (in not more than 100 words)
Imagine you’re in a room with a visitor from an alien world. He asks you what you like to read and you decide to tell him about Julian Stockwin — what do you say?
- Please include your postal address. Contest open worldwide. Deadline: November 30. Winner will be the entry judged the most apt and original.
Tyger
- ‘Having joined the British Royal Navy when only fifteen, Julian Stockwin’s adept nautical know-how shows in his novels. We are treated to travel alongside the sailors and experience life on a fighting-sail vessel. The combat scenes, with their elements of surprise, heroism, and horror, have an authenticity about them. These, combined with the political intrigue, particularly in the Baltic Sea countries, and the descriptions of societal norms of that period make this a truly interesting historical novel. It is the sixteenth instalment in the Kydd series… and this reviewer believes that this is one of the best Kydd books thus far. Highly recommended.’
Historical Novel Society
The Silk Tree
- ‘Much of the story in The Silk Tree turns on circumstance and chance as well as the wild good luck that is seldom seen outside of far fetched adventure stories. It is a testament to the quality of the writing that the reader’s credulity or patience is never taxed and Nicander and Marius do end up in Seres but not in the manner that they had planned. Now all they have to do is uncover the secret and bring it home…
If you like books that are full of the names and legends of far away places, histories of cultures that are rarely mentioned today and impossible tales of derring-do than this is certainly the novel for you. The travels and travails that Nicander and Marius go through are tough and unrelenting but they never give up and never give in. Their journeys are legendary but their trials are rewarded in the end. What is really rewarding is that the characters are fully fleshed out and there is a lot of humour in the book. The Silk Tree is an enjoyable, adventurous romp and time spent in the company of Nicander and Marius is no trial at all.’
Waterford Today
Stockwin’s Maritime Miscellany: A Ditty Bag of Wonders From the Golden Age of Sail
- ‘This book is a delight and a labour of love. The author has been involved with the sea all of his life, serving in the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy. Through his working life and his more recent career as a writer, he has collected a huge amount of information. From this fund of knowledge, he has selected a collection of facts and anecdotes, details of events and museums, insights into the life of seaman during the golden period of sail. The diversity of information and the fascinating explanations of the background to commonly used words and phrases, such as high and dry and first rate, will appeal to a very wide readership.’
Firetrench Reviews
Julian Stockwin 
I have just finished Tyger, a very good read. I have only one comment to make, Gothenburg, the author wrote about medieval belltowers. In Gothenburg there is no medieval Buildings at all: Gothenburg is an early 17 Century city. In 2021 it will be 400 years old.
Delighted you enjoyed TYGER, Johan. You are correct about the birth date of Gothenburg but the text is meant to convey that to Kydd’s eyes the ancient towers looked medieval.
If you are looking for something to read, I would like to introduce you to Julian Stockwin. His books are a little portal into past eras. He tells a very entertaining story, set in fascinating time in history. They bring alive the times, and hardships in which the character of the books lived. His books thrust your imagination into a journey of time, and put you down in a life far from your own. A time of sailing ships and naval life, and of bygone histories and cultures. They are both adventurous and a historical window into the past.
Bob Griffin
43 Buller street
Swindon
SN2 8DG
> On 10 November 2015 at 09:12 Julian Stockwin > wrote: > > BigJules posted: “Thought we’d have a little bit of fun with this one! For > a chance to win a copy of Tyger, The Silk Tree & Stockwin’s Maritime > Miscellany (plus a mystery prize) email me with a response to this question > (in not more than 100 words) Imagine you’re ” >
What do I like to read? Well it must intrigue me and it must flow as a narrative, along side the need to inspire. In this respect the novels of Julian Stockwin hit the spot. The story flows and the narrative provides information and intrigue, it is difficult to explain the need for a novel to flow ; story line interruption or abruptness leads to boredom and confusion in the novel, Stockwin manages to flow and impart historical and narrative in the body of the story and this allows the novel to expand and become a friendly and knowable dialogue between reader and writer. It is this combination that has made me a devotee of the author.
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