Christopher C. Tubbs, is a SABA 2020 Fiction Book award short listed author. A dog loving descendent of a long line of Dorset clay miners who has traced his family tree back to the 16th century in the Isle of Purbeck. He left school at 16 to take an apprenticeship in Avionics and has been a public speaker for most of his career and was one of the founders of a successful games company back in the 1990’s.
Now in his sixties he is writing the stories he had going around in his head for many years. Thanks to inspiration from great fiction and fantasy authors he was finally able to put digit to keyboard and start writing the Dorset Boy series. He makes no apologies that he writes for himself. The stories emerge as he writes and is often surprised by the twists and turns that they take. His dogs sit by him as he writes and it would be unfair to leave them out so look out for them in The Dorset Boy series.Now living in the Netherlands Antilles on the island of Bonaire with his wife and furry kids.
AOS Naval Fiction |
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| Series: The Dorset Boy | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| A Talent For Trouble | Martin Stockley is taken on as a Ship's Boy to the Captain of the frigate HMS Falcon | |
| The Special Operations Flotilla | Midshipman Martin Stockley is 15 years old and back in the Falcon | |
| Agent Provocateur | Marty is very useful to British Security lead by William Wickham | |
| 1802 | In Dangerous Company | Pirate attacks from Réunion on East Indiamen ships in the Indian Ocean are getting worse |
| 1804 | The Tempest | The political elite are worried about the level of piracy in the Caribbean |
| Vendetta | Marty is asked to recover jewels and top secret documents | |
| 1807 | The Trojan Horse | Marty is involved with Thomas Cochrane at the Battle of Basque Roads |
| La Licorne | Marty has been made Viscount Wellington's Head of Intelligence in Lisbon | |
| 1812 | Raider | The Americans are threatening war along the Canadian border |
| Silverthorn | Marty is made a Viscount and the Navy promote him to Commodore | |
| 1815 | Exile | Marty gets the job of taking Napoleon to his final place of exile |
| Dynasty | Marty has a diplomatic role as the new Military Attache in Calcutta | |
| Empire | Raffles asks for Marty's help to found a free port on Singapore Island | |
| 1820 | Revolution | Marty's ships are deemed surplus to the Navy |
| Burma | The 1st Anglo-Burma war is looming and Marty is sent to Burma as Ambassador | |
| 1827 | Independence | Vice Admiral Martin Stockley is given his first fleet command |
| Series: The Decoy Ships | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| Kingfisher | HMS Kingfisher masquerades as a merchant ship to capture Barbary pirate vessels | |
| Warley | Warley is a disguised warship luring pirates, as well as French ships, away from British trade | |
AOS Privateer Fiction |
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| Series: The Scarlett Fox | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| 1660 | Scarlett | Scarlett Browning commandeers a French ship and heads to the Caribbean |
| Freedom | Scarlett has returned to the Caribbean determined to establish a permanent base | |
| Legacy | Scarlett must once again use her cunning to face down the unforgiving rage of the Spanish Inquisition | |