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Alexander Kent
Given modern societies' ubiquitous and near constant access to incredible computing power and technology, how do you believe a modern democracy should function? Evolving our democracy into a Direct Democracy…
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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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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…
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Portsmouth 1782. Now captain of the frigate Phalarope Bolitho deals with a mutinous crew and fights in the Battle of Saintes.
Brutal smugglers, many of them naval deserters, occupy the Channel, plying their trade between England and France. This story describes Richard Bolitho’s mission: to take three speedy top sail cutters…
March, 1811. Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is once again summoned to London. In defense of an Empire, the Admiralty must quell the unrest in America-or face war with those who…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 year is 1793, and England is once again at war. For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities with France means a fresh command and the chance for action after…
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…
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…
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…
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…
February 1806. Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho carries the news of Trafalgar to southern Africa, where he is to aid the ground forces in any way he can to retake Cape…
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…
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…
Aboard the 28-gun Destiny, Bolitho, now a third lieutenant, deals with piracy, conspiracy, and treason in the Caribbean.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
In the spring of 1797, Richard Bolitho brings the 100-gun Euryalus home to Falmouth to be flagship of the hastily formed squadron, which has been chosen to make the first…
This fourteenth Bolitho novel has the epic scenes of action, the powerful characterization and the authentic period detail that have made Alexander Kent a bestseller wherever sea stories are read…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
June 1793, Gibraltar. The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. As in the past, Britain will stand or fall by the fighting power…
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…
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…
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…
The twelfth Richard Bolitho story that chronologically follows the events covered by Signal - Close Action! In September 1800, Richard Bolitho assumes command of his own squadron, but he soon…
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…
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.
As captain of His Majesty’s frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns, Adam Bolitho is required to assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron. But all efforts of the patrols to…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
