The Force of Fate (PB/K)
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- By: Seth Hunter
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Seth Hunter has a new novel, The Force of Fate, which will be released worldwide in kindle on 3 September 2024, when the US paperback will also be released. The UK paperback will be available 3 November 2024. It is now available for pre-order.
1806: The United States faces an existential threat from within. Vice President Aaron Burr, feeling cheated of the presidency, conspires to destroy the Union – and if he can’t become president legally, to set himself up as the leader of a breakaway republic in the West. At the same time, President Jefferson’s plan to outlaw the Atlantic slave trade provokes a secessionist movement in the Southern states. Mere decades after achieving independence from Great Britain, the young nation is in serious danger of falling apart.
To further complicate matters, a French fleet escapes the British naval blockade and heads westward across the Atlantic. Onboard is Emperor Napoleon’s younger brother, Jerome, intent on exploiting America’s internal divisions to his and his country’s advantage.
And in their wake, on a mission to assist the beleaguered President Jefferson, is the newly promoted commodore Nathan Peake with a small squadron of British warships led by the seventy-four-gun Scipio.
Nathan has his own problems to contend with, however, and at times they appear overwhelming. They include his pregnant lover who is under suspicion of being a French agent, his secretive and complicated association with the Bonaparte family, his own dissident officers, the pro-slavery faction in the British Navy, and an American double agent intent on exploiting the national crisis for his own personal gain.
The scene is set for an epic clash among the British Navy, Napoleonic France, and the forces driving America apart. And as the 1806 Battle of the Atlantic reaches the mouth of the Chesapeake, the Eastern Seaboard is about to be hit by one of the worst hurricanes in history.
Warlord (K)
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- By: George Edwardson
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George Edwardson's new book, Warlord, is now available worldwide for Kindle.
Captain John Wharton RN is called back to duty on the orders of Rear Admiral Cochrane as captain of the three-deck, 74-gun battleship HMS Warlord.
The Naval Mutinies of 1798 (HC/K)
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- By: Philip MacDougall
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Philip MacDougall's new book, The Naval Mutinies of 1798: The Irish Plot to Seize the Channel Fleet, is now available worldwide for Kindle and also in Hardcover in the UK. The US Hardcover will be released on 31 August 2024.
For Ireland, the year 1798 saw a major rebellion breaking out against rule from London, a time in which Britain was in its fifth year of a hard-fought war against revolutionary France. Set in motion by the Society of United Irishmen, an underground organisation with links to Paris, the rebellion was eventually crushed by an overwhelming force of arms. In this new, dramatic account, Philip MacDougall shines a light on a little covered aspect of this history: the United Irish plot to capture a number of British warships and the planned use of those vessels in support of the rebellion that broke out in 1798.
The Wind from All Directions (K/PB)
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- By: Ron Thompson
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Ron Thompson's new book, The Wind from All Directions, was recently released and is available worldwide in Paperback and for Kindle.
1792: British naval lieutenant George Vancouver arrives in the Pacific northwest on a voyage of exploration. He has orders to take possession of Nootka Sound, but finds the Spanish, led by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, already there and unwilling to leave. Quadra and Vancouver negotiate their countries’ claims, manoeuvre for advantage, and seek the support of Maquinna, chief of the Mowachaht, who recognizes the threat posed by all the newcomers to his territory. While the commanders seek a solution, their crews fraternize and wait. When a young man is killed on shore, Spanish and British alike blame the natives and demand revenge. The man’s commander, though, refuses to retaliate without proof. He investigates, and uncovers a web of secrets, lies, and exploitation — and the identity of the killer.
The Sugar Storm (PB/K)
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- By: Lyle Garford
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The second book in Lyle Garford's 'The Owen Spence Series', The Sugar Storm, is now available in paperback and for kindle worldwide.
In 1775 the little known Caribbean island of St. Eustatius is experiencing an economic boom unprecedented in scale. British Foreign Office spies based in Barbados are suspicious their French and rebel American counterparts are responsible and that much more is happening below the surface.
Clay and the River of Silver (K/PB)
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- By: Philip K. Allan
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Philip K. Allan's new book, Clay and the River of Silver, is now available worldwide in Paperback and for Kindle.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy are taking the war to the enemy. Captain Alexander Clay and the crew of the Griffin are chosen as part of a major expedition to the South Atlantic. They are tasked with taking back control of the Cape, but find that they are drawn into a stranger conflict. Across the ocean, South America is on the brink of revolution.
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World (HC/K/A)
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- By: Roger Crowley
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Roger Crowley's new book, Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World, is now available worldwide for Kindle. The UK Hardcover will be released on 15 May 2024 and the US Hardcover on 18 June 2024 when the Audiobooks will also be released worldwide.
The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competition for control.
