Armada’s Wake, the third book in my ‘Jack Stannard of the Navy Royal’ trilogy, was published by Canelo in August 2020. This follows on from Destiny’s Tide and Battle’s Flood, both of which were published in 2019. All three titles are currently only available in e-book format, but I hope to be able to announce some exciting news for lovers of ‘proper’ books in the near future!
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There’s an interview with me in the splendid Quarterdeck magazine! You can read it here.
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In 2020 I became chairman of the Society for Nautical Research, the oldest and most august organisation in the field. As well as publishing the eminent peer-reviewed journal The Mariner’s Mirror, the Society was largely responsible for saving HMS Victory and for founding the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.
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I’m often asked if and when a new Matthew Quinton book will see the light of day. The good news is that I used the most recent lockdown to finish the latest story in the series, in which Matthew goes to the Caribbean and encounters Captain Henry Morgan. The slightly less good news is that I can’t yet announce a publication date – it looks as though I’ll have to self-publish this title, which will be a new experience for me, so I’m not sure how long it will take (and it will obviously have to be fitted in around other commitments). I’ll keep you posted!
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The current situation with regard to the publication and availability of the rest of the Quinton series is a little complicated, so I’ve covered it in detail in a post on my blog. Please check that for further information!
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I’m currently completing work on my long-delayed book on the Stepney family, baronets of Llanelly House, and hope to publish this some time in 2020-21 – watch this space, but in the meantime, go to the ‘Future Projects’ page on this site for further information!
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Those with an interest in the late seventeenth century Royal Navy might be interested to know that there’s a research group investigating the history of the Stuart royal yachts, and that it has a website, to which further information will eventually be added – www.syrg.org.uk. The group can be contacted via info@syrg.org.uk. I’m hoping to have a guest blog about the work of the group on this site in the near future.
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Finally, a quick plug for the new book by my ‘significant other’ Wendy Berliner, the ‘LadyQJ’ of my Twitter feed! Her second title, How to Succeed at School, was published in December 2019. Her first book, Great Minds and How to Grow Them: High Performance Learning, went immediately into the Amazon bestseller lists on the back of her Guardian article, which summarises the main arguments of the book.