Sea Adventures

THE CROWN CALLS IT PRIVATEERING. CAPTAIN TYLER CALLS IT TREASON.1705, Port Royal. British Navy Captain William Tyler returns from patrol expecting a promotion. Instead, he finds his command stripped and his reputation under siege.On his final mission, Tyler didn't just find enemy ships—he...

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'Gripping and thoroughly eerie' LUCIE MCKNIGHT HARDY 'Deliciously spinetingling' ANNA MAZZOLA 'The perfect ghostly web of claustrophobia and grief' ESSIE FOX A SPINETINGLING SEASIDE FOLK HORROR NOVEL, SET ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST AGAINST THE 1970s BLACKOUTS When the lights go out You can lose...

The barometer is falling. Captain MacWhirr is holding his course. Practical, unimaginative, and stubbornly devoted to duty, MacWhirr sees little reason to steer the steamship Nan-Shan away from a storm. But as a Pacific typhoon closes in, his routine voyage becomes a desperate fight for survival...

Bloody Nick returns from the Mediterranean tired—he has done too much, seen too much, and needs rest at home. His ship, HBMS Hawke, needs time in the yard. A year of half-pay leaves Nick rested and anxious to get back to sea. He is close to the top of the Captain's List and automatic promotion...

"An immersive and engrossing mystery." --Tania Blanchard, bestselling author "A masterfully crafted dual timeline." --Tea Cooper, USA TODAY bestselling author Two women. One shipwreck. And four centuries of secrets. Shortly before Christmas in 2018, Tess McCarthy, after years as a hard-working...

Three journalists witness the unbelievable. Their biggest problem is not surviving it—it is convincing anyone else that it happened. Traveling from Cape Town to England aboard a small tramp steamer, three newspapermen expect an uneventful voyage home. Instead, a violent underwater disturbance...

Based on the true story of the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty, this historical adventure follows Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers after they cast Captain Bligh adrift and flee in search of a place beyond the reach of British law. Seeking an island remote enough to escape discovery, they...

Kenny Ruddman faces a perilous journey as he battles inner demons and becomes entangled in a terrorist plot. His fate hangs in the balance as he navigates the treacherous Bering Sea, where survival is uncertain and danger lurks at every turn.

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of J. G. Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. This collection includes "The Garden of Time," the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala—fashion's biggest night. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture.

The Call of the Sea series has received more than 16,000 five-star reviews The Mediterranean Fleet under Lord Collingwood is at its greatest ever—more than a hundred vessels—and is far too small for the tasks demanded of it. The French have invaded Spain, their former ally, and are ravaging...

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers are played out, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.

Trust is an easy thing to lose… but a much harder thing to earn back once it's gone. After the disappearance of his wife left his world shattered, Lee Young has done his best to start over. With a proposal in his future and his daughter, Jessie, returning home at last, peace in sunny Key West seems within reach. That is, until Vicky Donovan arrives back in town.

Jim Hawkins is just a boy running his family's inn when a dying sailor shows up with a chest full of secrets - and a treasure map that changes everything. What follows is one of the most propulsive adventure stories ever put on paper. Pirates, double-crossings, a one-legged man who is somehow...

Bloomsbury presents One Last Greek Summer by Mandy Baggot, read by Imogen Comrie Bestselling author Mandy Baggot returns with another sun-drenched Greek adventure! Beth Martin is 31, newly divorced and wondering just what life holds for her... Best-friend, Heidi, is adamant that all the answers...