HNF Related Fiction Authors

FrigateThis search result list includes those authors who have written work which is considered not appropriate for the main index. This will include HNF novels within a land based series, novels where the major proportion is land based, novels which have an HNF setting but are, for example, mystery novels and other works considered to be on the periphery of HNF.

Total: 42 results found.

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1. Vaughan Wilkins
(Matching tags: Vaughan Wilkins,HNF Related Fiction Author)
William Vaughan Wilkins (1890–1959), born in London, was a Welsh historical novelist and journalist for the Daily Express. He was noted for his novel And So-Victoria about Queen Victoria.   ...
2. Stanley Wilson
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Stanley Wilson)
Born in Middlesbrough, Stanley Wilson settled in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, after travelling the country in the course of his forty years' service in HM Customs and Excise. His love of the sea and ...
3. Robert Wilton
(Matching tags: Robert Wilton,HNF Related Fiction Author)
... between Prishtina, London and Cornwall. His first book is a spy novel with an HNF background promoted as "O'Brian meets le Carré with a nod towards Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell"   Series: ...
4. Philip McCutchan
(Matching tags: AOS Other Non Fiction Author,HNF Related Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,ME Naval Fiction Author,ME Nautical Fiction Author,Philip McCutchan,The Halfhyde Adventures,Donald Cameron RNVR,John Mason Kemp,Tom Chatto)
Philip Donald McCutchan (1920-1996), who also wrote under the pseudonyms Robert Conington Galway and Duncan MacNeil, grew up in the naval atmosphere of Portsmouth Dockyard and developed a lifetime's interest ...
5. Emma Collingwood
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Gay Romance Author,Emma Collingwood)
Emma Collingwood. There is no information on this author who is writing a series of ghost stories set in the Age of Sail   Series: Penny, Dreadful and Tarbottom Year  Book ...
6. Jack Gordon
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Gay Romance Author,Jack Gordon)
Jack Gordon is a resident of Glasgow, Scotland who has written one novel on the periphery of historic naval fiction   Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment   ...
7. William Gilbert
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,William Gilbert)
William Gilbert, (1804–1890) was a British novelist and Royal Navy surgeon, and the author of novels, biographies, histories and several popular fantasy stories, mostly in the 1860s and 1870s. He is perhaps ...
8. Wilder Perkins
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Wilder Perkins,Bartholomew Hoare)
Wilder Perkins ( -1999) made his home in Easton, Maryland. He wrote a mystery series with a naval background.   Series: Bartholomew Hoare Year  Book  Comment 1805 ...
9. Wilbur Smith
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Wilbur Smith,The Courtney Novels)
... wildlife of his native continent, an interest strongly reflected in his novels. Two of his books, part of the non-nautical 'The Courtney Novels', have a HNF background Series: The Courtney ...
10. Walter Reed Johnson
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Walter Reed Johnson)
Walter Reed Johnson. There is no information on this author who has written one novel, as part of a land based series, on the periphery of historic naval fiction   Series: Oakhurst series ...
11. Thomas Hoover
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,Thomas Hoover)
Thomas Hoover has a doctorate in oceanography and served as senior vice president of an architect-engineering firm in New York, where he has lived for several decades. His vices include being ...
12. Susan Wenger
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Susan Wenger)
Susan Wenger previously taught Philosophy and English. She enjoys humor, puzzles and wordplay and is the coordinator for Mensa's Patrick O'Brian Special Interest Group. She has taught ...
13. S. I. Martin
(Matching tags: Young Adult Fiction Author,HNF Related Fiction Author,S. I. Martin,Jupiter Series)
... as a researcher and writer of Black history.  One of the books in his Jupiter series has an HNF background.   Series: Jupiter series Year  Book  Comment ...
14. R. D. Blackmore
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,R. D. Blackmore)
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900), referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Over the course of his ...
15. Pauline Hunter Blair
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Pauline Hunter Blair)
Pauline Clarke was born in 1921 and is an English author who has written for children of all ages and more recently for adults under her married name Pauline Hunter Blair. Until 1943 she studied English ...
16. Oswald A Bushnell
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Oswald A Bushnell)
... an HNF background, won the Atlantic Monthly's fiction award in 1956, at a time when most books about Hawaii were written by outsiders.   Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment ...
17. Nicholas Monsarrat
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Nicholas Monsarrat,ME Naval Fiction Author,ME Nautical Fiction Author)
Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat (1910 - 1979) was born in Liverpool and educated at at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied law. His career as a solicitor encountered ...
18. Michael Hagen
(Matching tags: Young Adult Fiction Author,HNF Related Fiction Author,Michael Hagen)
Michael Hagen is an author of children's books and young adult books.    Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment 1702 Sail to Caribee Jack Slate, the ...
19. Michael Gaunt
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Michael Gaunt,David Hepburn Series)
Michael Gaunt is a pseudonym of James Denis Robertshaw. There is no other information on this author who has written two novels on the periphery of historic naval fiction   Series: David ...
20. Matthew Henry Barker aka ‘The Old Sailor’
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Matthew Henry Barker,The Old Sailor)
Matthew Henry Barker (1790-1846) who served on an East Indiaman and in the navy, was a writer of sea tales and naval editor of United Service Gazette. His books appear using the pseudonym 'The ...
21. Leonard Wibberley
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Leonard Wibberley,Treegate series)
... historical fiction, which takes place during the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and a four-volume life of Thomas Jefferson. Two of the Treegate volumes can be regarded as HNF.  Series: ...
22. Lee Rowan
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Gay Romance Author,Lee Rowan,Royal Navy Series)
Lee Rowan has been writing professionally since spring of 2006, after learning her craft writing fanfiction for some 30 years. Among her work is a gay romance series with an HNF Background  ...
23. Joseph Conrad
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Joseph Conrad)
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857–1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language ...
24. John Davis
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,John Davis)
John Davis (1774-1854). There is no information on this author who has written one novel on the periphery of historic naval fiction   Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment ...
25. Joan Druett
(Matching tags: AOS Other Non Fiction Author,HNF Related Fiction Author,Joan Druett,The Wiki Coffin Mysteries,AOS Nautical Fiction Author,AOS Naval Non Fiction Author)
Joan Druett is a New Zealand historian and novelist, specialising in maritime history. She was born in Nelson, and raised in Palmerston North, moving to New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, when she ...
26. James Jackson
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,James Jackson)
James Heitz Jackson was born in London, with twin brother Julian, in 1962. He was educated at Cheam School, Wellington College, Bristol University, King’s College London, the London College ...
27. Inglis Fletcher
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Inglis Fletcher,Carolina Chronicles)
Inglis Clark Fletcher (1879-1969) was born in Alton, Illinois. She spent the first half of her adult life with her mining engineer husband in northern California, Washington State and Alaska, once moving ...
28. Hester Burton
(Matching tags: Young Adult Fiction Author,HNF Related Fiction Author,Hester Burton)
Hester Burton (nee Wood-Hil) (1913-2000)l was born Beccles in Suffolk. She attended Headington School Oxford between 1925 and 1931 and then Oxford University between 1932 and 1936 when she received ...
29. G. S. Wiley
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Gay Romance Author,G. S. Wiley)
G.S. Wiley is a writer, reader, teacher, traveller, sometime painter and semi-avid scrapbooker who lives in Canada. One of her works, whilst a romance, has an HNF background    Series: ...
30. D. A. De Lacy
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,D. A. De Lacy)
... HNF related book.   Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment 1808 The Reprise Series - The Turning Tide & Driftwood The Reprise Series is set at sea and in ...
31. Clemence Dane
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Clemence Dane)
... as Perfect Strangers, starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr. By the time of her death shehad written more than 30 plays and 16 novels, one of which had a HNF background.   Series: n/a  ...
32. Charles Gidley Wheeler
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Charles Gidley Wheeler,ME Naval Fiction Author)
... work is The Raging of the Sea. One of his works has an HNF background Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment Armada Tristram Pascoe's is pressed into service ...
33. Caryl Brahms & Ned Sherrin
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Caryl Brahms,Ned Sherrin)
Edward George "Ned" Sherrin (1931-2007) and Caryl Brahms (1901-1982) [born Doris Caroline Abrahams] worked together from 1955 until Miss Brahms’s death in 1982. They collaborated in writing for Radio, ...
34. Bill Collett
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Bill Collett)
Bill Collett. There is no information on this author who has written one novel on the periphery of historic naval fiction   Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment   ...
35. Bernard Cornwell
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Bernard Cornwell)
Bernard Cornwell, who  lives with his wife on Cape Cod,  is the author of many fictional books set in a wide range of historical periods. His work includes the acclaimed Richard Sharpe ...
36. Allan Mallinson
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Allan Mallinson)
Brigadier Allan Lawrence Mallinson was a serving cavalry officer. He is the author of Light Dragoons, a history of four regiments of British Cavalry, one of which he commanded, and a regular reviewer for ...
37. Alex Beecroft
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,Gay Romance Author,Alex Beecroft)
Alex Beecroft was born in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and grew up in the wild countryside of the Peak District. Alex studied English and Philosophy before accepting employment with the Crown Court ...
38. A. R. Dismorr
(Matching tags: HNF Related Fiction Author,A. R. Dismorr)
A. R. Dismorr. There is no information on this author who has written one novel on the periphery of historic naval fiction   Series: n/a Year  Book  Comment ...
39. Alaric Bond Review: Acre by Tom Grundner
(Book Reviews)
... not been covered in HNF as fully as the battle itself; Acre does much to address this, and certainly it is a story worth telling. Grunder's affection for Sir Sydney is obvious and, bearing in mind Smith's ...
40. Castors away!
(HNF Related Books)
Juvenile fiction including the Battle of Trafalgar. A major part of the work is about a family in the UK and not HNF related. This is a novel based partly on an actual event in England, 1805, where a ...
41. General HNF Information
(Header)
This section of the site is for various information related to historic naval fiction that may be of interest to the readers of these novels. This includes: Related Authors on the periphery of HNF such ...
42. Samuel Whitchurch Sadler R.N.
(Authors)
... novels are mainly out of print and information on them is limited. Whilst it is believed those listed are HNF related this can not be guaranteed.   Series: n/a Year Book Comment  ...