HNF Log Book October 2011
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Visitor, this is your update newsletter from October 2011
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Recent Latest Release ArticlesThis month articles have appeared about the following books which have been published or are available for pre-order Fiction |
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Author Naomi Novik has a new novel which is now available for pre-order in hardcover, Crucible of Gold. It will be available worldwide on 6 March 2012. |
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Peter Goodwin has a new book out which is now available for pre-order in hardcover, HMS Victory Owner's Workshop Manual: An Insight Into Owning, Operating and Maintaining the Royal Navy's Oldest and Most Famous Warship. Release date 1 April 2012. |
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David Pulvertaft has a new book out which has just been released in hardcover in the UK, Figureheads of the Royal Navy. It will be available in the US on 15 October 2011 and can be pre-ordered. | |
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Brian Arthur has a new book which is available for pre-order in hardcover, How Britain Won the War of 1812: The Royal Navy's Blockades of the United States, 1812-1815. It will be released wordlwide on 17 November 2011. | |
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Each month I provide a short bio of one of the authors on the site. This month we will look at Dudley Pope
The first is about Lord Ramage, the son of Admiral the Earl of Blazey who is out of favour. The son has a career dogged by the interference of his father's enemies. The second is about Ned Yorke, the younger son of the Earl of Ilex. Persecuted by the Roundheads he becomes a Buccaneer |
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Books with a release date this monthFirst editions or first paperback releases this month Fiction |
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The Power and the Glory by William C. Hammond (Hardcover - Worldwide) It is due for release on 1 October 2011 |
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Conquest by Julian Stockwin (Hardcover - US) It is due for release on 1 October 2011 |
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Non Fiction |
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The Great Pirate Legends Debunked: Authentic Details of Sea Rover History More Extraordinary Than the Myths by Benerson Little (Paperback - UK) It is due for release on 1 October 2011 |
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Figureheads of the Royal Navy by David Pulvertaft (Hardcover - US) It is due for release on 15 October 2011 |
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Last month I was saddened to learn of the sudden death of Tom Grundner. Tom was a great supporter of historic naval fiction both as an author of the Sir Sidney Smith Nautical Adventure Series and as the Senior Editor of Fireship Press. But there was much more to him than that and you can read a full 
Dudley Pope (1925-1997) served as a merchant navy midshipman during WWII and in 1944 became a naval defence correspondent of the London Evening News. He went on to write carefully researched naval history and was urged by C.S. Forester to try his hand at fiction as he saw the younger writer as his literary heir. Among his work are two AOS fiction Series.