Armada’s Wake, the third book in my ‘Jack Stannard of the Navy Royal’ trilogy, will be published by Canelo on 20 August, and is now available for pre-order. This follows on from Destiny’s Tide and Battle’s Flood, both of which were published in 2019.
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I’ve recently become acting 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. I’m hugely aware of the responsibility my new position will entail, especially in such difficult times, but am looking forward to taking the helm – the title of my blog about the appointment.
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The current situation with regard to the publication and availability 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.