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Re-readers: around the buoy again!
Posted on October 13, 2014 8 Comments
As I travel around various events for the launch of Pasha I’ve been struck – and humbled – by the number of readers who tell me they’ve read the earlier titles in the Kydd series all over again in anticipation of the new book (sometimes more than twice). This is a large investment in terms […]
From Sea Scout to Master of the Lady Nelson
Posted on June 9, 2014 2 Comments
[To leave a comment or reply go to box at the end of the page] Brian Hodgson is a volunteer master for the replica brig Lady Nelson and has many years’ maritime experience under his belt. I met Brian on my last visit to Tasmania, where he offered me the great honour of taking the […]
‘I discovered Kydd in Kazakhstan!’
Posted on June 3, 2014 1 Comment
It always gives me a thrill to hear of my Kydd tales being read in particularly exotic or unusual locales. They’ve been up the Amazon, carried to the frozen North and choppered in to a remote mining town in Western Australia – to name just a few. Now I can add Kazakhstan to the list! […]
COMMAND: the watershed book
Posted on May 23, 2014 4 Comments
A regular feature looking back on each of the Kydd titles – with story background, research highlights, writing challenges and more. In this book, newly commissioned Commander Kydd is thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer – but when peace is declared he finds himself on the beach Watershed book In […]
Julian Stockwin 