Success to the Brave (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Success to the Brave (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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 summoned to the Admiralty in London and given his orders for a difficult and, to him, distasteful

Honour This Day - (Richard Bolitho: Book 19) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

He has written dozens of naval books under his own name and the pseudonym Alexander Kent, including the famous Richard Bolitho books set during the Napoleonic

Tradition of Victory (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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. After eight years of war between Britain and France there is at last a rumour of

Colours Aloft! (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Colours Aloft!, the sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel, bears all the hallmarks of its best-selling predecessors. September 1803Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute, a French flagship taken in

Darkening Sea (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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 Catherine Somervell. Although ordered immediately to the Indian Ocean, for the first time Bolitho's thoughts are not

In the King's Name (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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 maritime writer and the legendary Adam

Band Of Brothers (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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 yet gained the coveted lieutenant's

Suspect - A contributing source for the film Richard Jewell (Alexander Kent)(Paperback / softback)

The masterful true-crime account of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that captured the world's attention, and Richard Jewell, the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it

To Glory We Steer - (Richard Bolitho: Book 7) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

The time is January 1782, and British Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to take the frigate Phalarope to the Caribbean, where the hard-pressed royal squadrons are fighting for their lives against the combined fleets of France and Spain and the upstart American

Flag Captain - (Richard Bolitho: Book 13) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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 British re-entry to the Mediterranean for nearly a year. As flag captain, Bolitho is made to contend with the unyielding

With All Despatch (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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 three topsail cutters Bolitho sets out to search the coast for seamen who have fled the harsh discipline of His Majesty's Navy for the more tempting

Man Of War - A Richard Bolitho Adventure (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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 be offered the seventy-four gun Athena, and as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Bethune once more follows his destiny

Passage To Mutiny - (Richard Bolitho: Book 9) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALESInto Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate

Beyond the Reef (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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 permanent naval force there. Setting aside his bitter memories and the anguish of a friendship betrayed, Bolitho takes passage

Heart Of Oak (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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 aware of the envy and ambition among his officers, the troubled, restless spirits of his midshipmen, and the old enemy's

Enemy In Sight - (Richard Bolitho: Book 12) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

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

Relentless Pursuit (Kent Alexander)(Paperback)

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 Sir Edward Pellew, Adam is ordered to sail his 46-gun frigate Unrivalled into African waters to aid His

Cross Of St George - (Richard Bolitho: Book 24) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

February 1813With 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 be won, but which neither Britain nor the United States can afford to lose. England's youngest admiral desires only

Form Line of Battle - (Richard Bolitho: Book 11) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

June 1793, Gibraltar - The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities means a fresh command and the chance of action after long months of inactivity. Bolitho and the crew of the Hyperion are trapped by the

Only Victor - (Richard Bolitho: Book 20) (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

FEBRUARY 1806The frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern

Second to None (Kent Alexander)(Paperback)

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 dawn of a new era in history, poised to take up the intrigue, the duty, and the bond with the sea which are his

Crush (Chmakova Svetlana)(Paperback)

Following the overwhelming success of AWKWARD and BRAVE, Svetlana Chmakova's award winning Berrybrook Middle School series continues with its next installment - CRUSH Jorge seems to have it all together. He's big enough that nobody really messes with him, but he's also a genuinely sweet guy with a

Kent: A Chronicle of the Century (Ogley Bob)(Paperback / softback)

History of Alexander (Curtius Rufus Quintus)(Paperback / softback)

The essential history of Alexander the Great, compelling and brilliantly realized Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has