got your seasick pills? Set sail into adventure...
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Tony Riches
Set sail into the dangerous world of Elizabethan intrigue with England’s most famous sea captain in Drake - Tudor Corsair ~ a gripping tale of ambition, epic sea battles, and royal secrets:
1564: Devon sailor Francis Drake sets out on a journey of adventure. Drake learns of routes used to transport Spanish silver and gold, and risks his life in an audacious plan to steal a fortune.
Queen Elizabeth is intrigued by Drake and secretly encourages his piracy. Her unlikely champion becomes a national hero, sailing around the world in the Golden Hind and attacking the Spanish fleet.
King Philip of Spain has enough of Drake’s plunder and orders an armada to threaten the future of England.
Amazon buy link: https://mybook.to/DrakeTudorCorsair
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Joan Fallon
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| Book2 in the series City of Dreams |
A seafaring adventure of a pirate raid and a wife's search.
Set in the medieval Mediterranean, where a master shipbuilder is seized in a pirate raid and his wife refuses to accept that he is lost. Vivid seafaring drama of captivity, enduring love, merchants and raiders, and a search across a dangerous sea.
Early one morning, the ambitious pirate, al-Awar, makes a lightning raid on the shipyard in Málaga and kidnaps Bakr, a master shipbuilder. When Aisha, Bakr’s wife receives the news, she's heartbroken but refuses to believe that she'll never see her husband alive again. She's determined to find where the pirates have taken him. With the entire Mediterranean to hide in, it won't be easy. At the heart of this novel is the tender story of deep love. It's that love which helps him to survive and gives her the strength to never stop searching for him.
This exciting, action-packed novel takes the reader into the medieval world of the merchants and seafarers who sail along the western coast of the Mediterranean, and the pirates who terrorise them.
Amazon buy link: https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-City-Dreams-Book-ebook/dp/B07Z2RRR95?ref_=saga_dp_bnx_dsk_dp*
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Helen Hollick
Sea Witch The first Voyage of Captain Jesamiah Acorne
The Time : The Golden Age of Piracy - 1716.
The Place : The Pirate Round - from the South African Coast to the Caribbean.
Escaping the bullying of his elder half-brother, from the age of fifteen Jesamiah Acorne has been a pirate with only two loves - his ship and his freedom. But his life is to change when he and his crewmates unsuccessfully attack a merchant ship off the coast of South Africa.
He is to meet Tiola Oldstagh an insignificant girl, or so he assumes - until she rescues him from a vicious attack, and almost certain death, by pirate hunters. And then he discovers what she really is; a healer, a midwife - and a white witch.
Tiola and Jesamiah become lovers, but the wealthy Stefan van Overstratten, a Cape Town Dutchman, also wants Tiola as his wife and Jesamiah's jealous brother, Phillipe Mereno, is determined to seek revenge for resentments of the past, a stolen ship and the insult of being cuckolded in his own home.
When the call of the sea and an opportunity to commandeer a beautiful ship - the Sea Witch - is put in Jesamiah's path he must make a choice between his life as a pirate or his love for Tiola. He wants both, but Mereno and van Overstratten want him dead. In trouble, imprisoned in the darkness and stench that is the lowest part of his brother's ship, can Tiola, with her gift of Craft and the aid of his loyal crew, save him?
Using all her skills Tiola must conjure up a wind to rescue her lover, but first she must brave the darkness of the ocean depths and confront the supernatural being, Tethys, the Spirit of the Sea, an elemental who will stop at nothing to claim Jesamiah Acorne's soul and bones as a trophy for herself.
The 7th Voyage - Jamaica Gold - will be available soon!
Amazon Buy Link: https://viewbook.at/SeaWitch
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Antoine Vanner
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| Britannia’s Bluff, the 13th volume of the Dawlish Chronicles series |
enjoyed as part of the Dawlish series or as a standalone story
November 1915: The Great War rages. Britain has failed to break through the Dardanelles Straits to open a supply route to its Russian allies. Over 80,000 allied troops are trapped in tiny footholds on the rocky Gallipoli peninsula. Weakened by disease and exposure, they are dominated by Turkish artillery and entrenchments on higher ground. Repeated attempts to advance have resulted in mounting casualties. Now, with winter looming, victory – at any cost – is unachievable.
But evacuation from the landing beaches could bring yet worse tragedy – bodies drifting in bloody surf, laden boats lashed by enemy fire as they strain towards the safety of allied ships moored in deeper water.
Admiral Sir Nicholas Dawlish, recalled from retirement on the outbreak of war, sees one chance – a colossal bluff – to reduce the risks of evacuation. Drawing on his half century’s experience of conflict, guile, new technology and outright daring, he plans a lightning diversionary campaign at sea, on land and by air. Speed and surprise will be the deciding factors.
As the Great War gathers momentum, new developments – submarines, radio, armoured vehicles, aircraft and ships to carry them to sea – are changing the rules and possibilities of warfare. Under Dawlish, ambitious and thrusting younger men will seize opportunities, and face threats, hitherto undreamed of. But will it be in time to help prevent a final bloodbath at Gallipoli?
Amazon UK https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3JCJ566
Amazon US: https://amazon.com/dp/B0G3JCJ566
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Elizabeth Revill & Norman Eshley
Oliver Twist has been rescued and is safe and well. Bill Sikes is dead. Fagin is in prison under sentence of death by hanging. His gang of pickpockets and thieves has been disbanded. One of the gang, Jack Dawkins, is in Newgate prison awaiting transportation to Australia. His crime? Theft of a silver snuffbox. What happens to him is the story of a young man trying his best to survive in the harshest of worlds. How does he fare?
It is not for nothing that Jack Dawkins is known as the Artful Dodger!
Amazon buy link: https://amzn.eu/d/6I7U7W2
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Bjørn Larssen
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| The Ten Worlds Book 2 |
Grimdark Norse Mythology Retelling of Discovery of Iceland
Love. Land. Loss. Happy Never After.
The truth Maya fought for all her life turns out to be a lie a thousand years long. She neither understands nor knows how to wield her hidden power, simultaneously endless and limited, forcing her to face responsibility for the harm she causes and parry countless questions she has no answers to. Neither time nor space can stop her – but can she stop herself?
Bound with an unbreakable love spell, Magni and Thorolf, raised in darkness and pain, share only one thing: a fear of revealing their truths. One was born to be a God; the other only knows a slave’s life. One craves peace and quiet; the other believes peace to be a brief reprieve between wars. As they mourn those they have lost, the constant war of their own threatens to destroy all they have left – each other.
Haunted by Gods old and new, in the shadow of Odin’s raven, they head to conquer the new Ásgard. Apart from their demons, nothing and nobody is what it seems. Unwilling to give up love, freedom, or land they’re fated to live happily never after… unless destiny can be altered after all?
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| Myra - book 1 of the Dave Travise trilogy |
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