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BookPick: A Century of Sea Travel
Posted on March 7, 2014 Leave a Comment
[To leave a comment or reply go to box at the end of the page] Christopher Deakes and Tom Stanley are well qualified as authors of a book such as this. Deakes worked for many years as a shipping agent and over the years amassed a large collection of shipping postcards. Stanley’s background is as […]
‘I always return to the Kydd series’
Posted on March 3, 2014 5 Comments
[To leave a comment or reply go to box at the end of the page] The March Reader of the Month is 19-year-old Marcus Brandenborg Bjørn from Denmark, keen sailor and Kydd fan! Kathy and I had the pleasure of meeting Marcus during our recent location research trip to Denmark Where did your love of […]
BookPick: Lord Nelson’s Swords
Posted on February 24, 2014 5 Comments
[To leave a comment or reply go to box at the end of the page] Regular readers of my blog may recall an earlier post mentioning that Sim Comfort would be bringing out a book on Nelson’s swords. I’ve just heard from Sim that the book will be released mid-March. He’s set up to take […]
A Jewel of a Museum: Orlogsmuseet
Posted on February 18, 2014 7 Comments
[To leave a comment or reply go to box at the end of the page] On location research for the Kydd series one of the first stops I always make are the local sea connections. And on my latest trip, I was most agreeably taken with the Orlogsmuseet, the Royal Danish Naval Museum in Copenhagen. […]
The Good Ship Vega Needs Your Help!
Posted on January 29, 2014 Leave a Comment
[To leave a comment or reply go to box at the end of the page] Vega is a 122 year old Hardanger built Norwegian sailing cargo vessel. Every year the vessel sails 8,000 sea miles delivering 25 tons of donated educational and medical supplies to some of South East Asia’s most remote island communities. But […]
‘Let Me See the Stuff of History!’
Posted on January 25, 2014 1 Comment
[To leave a comment or reply go to box at the end of the page] Having enjoyed James McGuane’s book Heart of Oak, a superb collection of photographs that conveys a truly moving visual sense of what life was like in Nelson’s navy, I was intrigued to learn that he’s brought out another book – […]
KYDD, My First Book
Posted on January 7, 2014 55 Comments
Looking back at this, the debut novel in the Kydd series, it hardly seems that a decade has passed since I very nervously submitted a proposal to write a series about a young man press-ganged into the Royal Navy, who eventually goes on not only to cross the great divide between the lower deck and […]
BookPick: British Naval Power in the East
Posted on January 4, 2014 1 Comment
[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] Another in the fine scholarly offerings from Boydell Press on the French and Revolutionary wars period. When war broke out with France in 1793, the threat of a renewed French challenge to British […]
Christmas at Sea
Posted on December 23, 2013 25 Comments
[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] Christmas ashore is a jolly time of fun and festivities where families and friends get together to eat and drink and exchange gifts. But having a number of salty Yuletides under my belt […]
Ghost Ships
Posted on December 20, 2013 12 Comments
[To leave a comment go right to the end of the page and just enter it in the ‘Leave a Reply’ box] Ghosts and ghost stories are a long-established Christmas tradition. In A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens has miserly Ebenezer Scrooge encountering Yuletide spirits past, present and future. But ghosts are not confined to dry […]
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