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Alexander Kent
On the eve of Waterloo, a sense of finality and cautious hope pervade a nation wearied by decades of war. But peace will present its own challenge to Adam Bolitho…
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The new year of 1774 seems to offer Richard Bolitho and his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. Both have been recommended for promotion, although they have not…
This book brings a flavour of the quality and breadth of the Journal into one volume that spans its history. It includes 16 classic papers from the archive, some of…
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Jake Stratton-Kent
?????Cyprian's Offices of Spirits highlights the folkloric elements of grimoiric practice, and is the final work by renowned occult author Jake Stratton-Kent.
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Man of War brims with authentic descriptions of ships under sail and life on the high seas. In this story of a young man haunted by the ghosts of his…
In March 1808, as Napoleon holds Portugal and threatens his old ally Spain, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is dispatched once more to the Cape of Good Hope to establish a…
September 1815. In this, the newest novel in Alexander Kent’s Bolitho series, Captain Adam Bolitho carries on the Royal Navy tradition of his seafaring family. Summoned to the Admiralty by…
March, 1811 After two and a half months of precious peace in Cornwall with his beloved mistress Catherine, Admiral Richard Bolitho is once again summoned to London.
Colours Aloft!, the sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel, bears all the hallmarks of its best-selling predecessors. September 1803 Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute, a…
With Bolitho in command, the frigate Undine sets sail for India and beyond. Europe may be at peace, but in colonial waters the promises of statesmen count for little and…
September 1804. As England stands alone against France and the fleets of Spain, Vice-Admiral Richard Bolitho sets sail with a new squadron for the Caribbean.
March 1814. Sir Richard returns from a wearing campaign in North American waters to take up a command in Malta. Meanwhile his nephew Adam remains behind as captain of a…
The frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern Africa. Bolitho’s instructions are to assist in hastening the campaign in Africa, where an expeditionary force…
The year is 1798. Commodore Richard Bolitho is sent to the Mediterranean where Napoleon’s naval forces are massing, preparing to annex Egypt. When Bolitho places his squadron between the Nile…
Success to the Brave is the fifteenth Richard Bolitho story and chronologically it follows the events covered by A Tradition of Victory. In the spring of 1802 Richard Bolitho is…
Copenhagen, 1800. After seven years of cruel war against France, Britain’s longstanding ally, Denmark, poses a threat. The scene of battle shifts to the Baltic where the British navy encounters…
Set on the eve of Waterloo, this book opens the second era of the Bolitho chronicles. Battling pirates and slavers, Adam Bolitho, captain of the Unrivalled, stands alone at the…
Bolitho steers the Tempest into the Great South Sea to protect English shipping lanes. He must face pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced, too, by deeper fears-the men…
The Hyperion sets sail with an untrained crew for blockade duty off France. Bolitho’s superior is an incompetant egotist whose petty hostilities jeopardize the operation of an entire fleet.
Plymouth, July 1801. After eight years of war with France, Britain must make a gesture that will show her strength and determination-and one which will dramatically weaken the French cause…
Spring, 1802. The Peace Treaty of Amiens, signed only a few weeks earlier, is showing signs of collapse. Britain and France wrangle over the return of colonial possessions won and…
Onward, a new 38-gun frigate whose first mission is not war but diplomacy, as consort to the French frigate Nautilus. Under the burning sun of North Africa, Bolitho is keenly…
The American Revolution has turned the Atlantic coast into a refuge for privateers and marauding French warships. Young Bolitho must fight the colonial rebels, stave off the treachery of a…
Portsmouth 1782. Now captain of the frigate Phalarope Bolitho deals with a mutinous crew and fights in the Battle of Saintes.
Returning safely to England after the dramatic capture of Martinique, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds an all-too-brief respite from war and politics. But the shadow of a new conflict already…
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As a junior officer in the British Royal Navy, Bolitho is caught up in the turmoil of American Revolution sea battles. Against a growing fleet of American and French privateers…
For the young Richard Bolitho the spring of 1778 marked a complete transformation for himself and his future. It was the year in which the American War of Independence changed…
In the wake of the War of 1812, Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho fights fruitless skirmishes with men of the frontier off Nova Scotia to defend Crown property.
The year is 1774 and Bolitho is the third lieutenant joining the 28-gun frigate Destiny at Plymouth. Despatched on a secret mission far south to Rio and then to the…
Into Sydney, capital of Britain’s infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty’s ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard…
Bulletin Of The Department Of Labor; No. 35–July, 1901, has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge…
Richard Bolitho is no ordinary man. His determination is blended with humanity, and his efforts to give the ship back her pride mark him apart from his contemporaries. As the…
It is February 1813. With convoys from Canada and the Caribbean falling victim to American privateers, Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to pursue a war he knows will not…
Falmouth, 1803. As Bolitho faces the grim reality of war at close quarters, he will be called upon to anticipate the strategies of the French fleet. The conflict has taken…
Returning safely to England after the dramatic capture of Martinque, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds an all too brief respite from war and politics in the arms of his mistress…
At a time of shortages and sudden death, even a lieutenant can find himself faced with tasks and decisions more suitably given to officers of greater experience. And, as the…
Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months’ patrolling. War with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon’s defeat has stunned a navy and…
It is September 1804: England stands alone against France and the fleets of Spain, anticipating invasion. Vice-admiral Richard Bolitho has his own troubles to settle at home too. But his…
In March 1784, at a time when most of the fleet was laid up, His Majesty’s frigate Undine weighed anchor at Spithead to begin a voyage to India and far…
As 1794 draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old seventy-four-gun ship of the line Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading the rising power of Revolutionary France…
Sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King’s Navy. For Bolitho, and for…
As the clouds of war begin to rise once more over the Channel, he has no choice but to accept an appointment to the Nore. With his small flotilla of…
Every harbour and estuary is filled with ghostly ships, the famous and the legendary redundant in the aftermath of the war. In this uneasy peace, Adam Bolitho is fortunate to…
A searing and gripping tale of trouble on the high seas, and of the weakness of the human spirit, In the King’s Name heralds the return of our greatest living…
Combining three novellas that cover the early years of Richard Bolitho’s service in the Royal Navy-including the latest Bolitho novella Band of Brothers-this omnibus is the new first book in…
When in 1798, Richard Bolitho hoists his pendant as commodore of a squadron, and prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean, he is soon made aware of his responsibility. There are rumours…
