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HMS Warrior - Ironclad by author Wynford Davies will be available in paperback in the UK on 17 March 2011 and in the US in April. 

HMS Warrior, launched in 1860, was the first iron-hulled, sea-going armoured ship, and for many years was the most powerful warship in the world. Rescued a century later from her role as a refuelling hulk, she became the object of the most ambitious ship restoration project ever mounted and is now afloat and open to visitors at Portsmouth. As is the case for many historic ships, however, there is a surprising shortage of informative and well illustrated guides, for reference during a visit or for research by enthusiasts ship modellers, naval

Author M. Howard Morgan has a new novel which is now available, First Fleet. It is currently only available as a Kindle ebook but will also be released as a paperback later in the year.

Love, murder, betrayal, and adventure with transportation of convicts in 1787 and the founding of the penal colony that became Australia.

With the American colonies closed to Britain, the gaols overflowed, the criminal under-class posed a threat to the property classes. A solution was

Author Seth Hunter has a new novel which is now available for pre-order in hardcover, The Winds of Folly, due for release on 7 July 2011 in the UK.

1796: Nathan Peake, captain of the frigate Unicorn is sent with a small squadron into the Adriatic to help bring Venice into an Italian alliance against the French. He establishes a British naval presence, harrying the French corsairs that swarm out of Ancona in Italy. While Nathan confronts the politics of ‘intrigue, poison and the stiletto’ in Venice, his mission is further complicated by the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte’s

Author Mark Keating has a new novel which is now available for pre-order in the UK, Hunt for White Gold, in both Hardcover and Paperback.

Sold by his father for four guineas, Patrick Devlin was working as a servant to Royal Navy Captain John Coxon when he was catpured by pirates. Now, Devlin has himself become one of the most feared pirates in the world - and Coxon his most bitter foe.

But in this thrilling new historical adventure it is not gold that Devlin is chasing, but something even more valuable.

The early 18th Century is obsessed with the flavours of the New World - coffee and chocolate. And only one material enables the kings, queens and rising middle

Author Robert N Macomber has a new novel which is now available for pre-order in hardcover, Honor Bound, due for release on May 2011.

It's June, 1888. Cmdr. Peter Wake, U.S. naval intelligence agent, is in Florida culminating an espionage mission to learn Spain's naval readiness in Cuba. A woman from his past shows up, begging him to find her missing son, and Wake sets off across Florida, through the Bahamian islands, and deep into the dank jungles of Haiti. His band includes a Smithsonian ethnologist, a Bahamian Seminole sailor, Russian spies, and a Polish-Haitian