The Battle of All The Ages
The Journals of Matthew Quinton, Book 5 England, 1666 In the heat of a gigantic battle against the Dutch, the English fleet is mysteriously divided. A large portion of their resources is sent to meet a French threat which never materialises. Thousands are slaughtered. Could there be a traitor in the Royal Navy? As popular […]
Pepys’s Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89
Winner of the Samuel Pepys Prize and Latham Medal for 2009 Pepys’s Navy describes every aspect the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when […]
Kings of the Sea: Charles II, James II and the Royal Navy
Winner of the Anderson Prize for 2017, and of a Certificate of Merit for the Mountbatten Prize It has always been widely accepted that the Stuart kings, Charles II and James II, had an interest in the navy and more generally in the sea. Their enthusiastic delight in sailing, for instance, is often cited as […]
Gentlemen and Tarpaulins: The Officers and Men of the Restoration Navy
My first book! A revised version of my doctoral thesis, it analyses the nature and attitudes of the seagoing personnel of the navy between 1660 and 1689. Still available on print-on-demand from Oxford University Press, nearly 30 years after its first publication!
Gentleman Captain
The Journals of Matthew Quinton, Book 1 The British Isles,1662 Cromwell is dead. King Charles II has been restored to the throne, but his grip in power is uncertain. He needs the loyalty of his navy – but many of the officers and men were once loyal to the Commonwealth. So the king starts giving […]
Ensign Royal
The Journals of Matthew Quinton: prequel novella Matthew Quinton, eighteen years old and an ensign in the Royalist Army in exile, is sent by his older brother the Earl of Ravensden into the heart of Oliver Cromwell’s England. Surrounded by enemies, he soon becomes tangled in a dark web of conspiracy… Before long Quinton will […]
