Kim Davies Ordre des livres

Philippe Kermorvant, unfairly dismissed from the French Navy, accepts command of a privateer from its enigmatic owner. But the mission quickly unravels and leads him into mortal danger.

After escaping from a British prison, Philippe Kermorvant returns to France. The final stronghold in Corsica is under siege, and Napoleon Bonaparte tasks him with ensuring its safety.

A compelling and entertaining history of Welsh naval history

Comic novel set in Wales, UK.A fresh start. The smog of the city in the rear view, and in front the green green grass of Wales...That's the idea anyway. But by the time John steps off the bus in bis new home, the curtains are already twitching. The sleepy village of Trecadno doesn't get much fresh blood, let alone that most exotic of specimens...a Londoner.Soon he finds himself on call to the whole community: there are classes to be taught, campaigns to be run, even coffins to be carried.Still, it's not all bad. There's the attention of Trecadno's female population for one: a beautiful pharmacist, a flirty teacher...He could get used to this.However, as John gets to grips with the quirks of his new home, he can't slip the suspicion that something isn't quite right. Someone, or something, is watching him from afar - and it's not just his landlady...At once suspenseful and side-splitting, Trecadno rests on a minutely observed portrait of rural Welsh life, a portrayal as affectionate as it is playful.

The first volume in this naval adventure series finds Philippe Kermorvant, a young Anglo-French naval officer, arriving in tumultuous revolutionary France. Driven by his Republican ideals, family loyalties and enmity toward England, his experiences there culminate in a life-or-death maritime battle.

An adventure on the High Seas… Stannard fights for his life across the stormy Atlantic Captain Jack Stannard showed his worth in the Battle of the Solent. But little did he know how his actions there would change his life forever.After a lucky escape at sea, he is drawn to Elizabeth I’s spymaster Francis Walsingham, who sets Jack on an extraordinary mission to Africa and the Caribbean in company with two unscrupulous sea captains, John Hawkins and Francis Drake.Stannard may be a man of the sea at heart, but for the former Dunwich lad, this is adventure on a new and unprecedented scale, from the force of a hurricane to the might of the Spanish fleet.Buckle up! The next instalment in the enthralling Jack Stannard and the Navy Royal series, Battle’s Flood is perfect for readers of Julian Stockwin and the Hornblower novels.

When Angela Collingham's drug-filled body is found on a banquette in the Avondale wine bar, Dover police are on the alert for a killer. Then Angie's client, a studmuffin called Bunny Daniel, is found dead on a bed. Nobody suspects big fat Nick, who works at the Avondale, but he's planning a major blackmail job on Angie's wealthy ex-husband, Mike Clayton. Enter briefly Angie's schoolgirl daughter, Judy, Clayton's estranged heir. With her nicely out of the way in a shallow grave, Nick can substitute her beautiful cousin Ursula, and get access to Clayton's business: The Jewellery Safe Deposit in London. Clayton accepts Ursula as his daughter, but will she play the game and help Nick and his loathsome colleague, Hardwood, to megabucks? In this taut tale of greed, desperation and mayhem, O A Davies takes potshots at people from all levels of society: the rich, the needy, the local bloodsuckers and the robber barons from overseas. Life is indeed cruel when you're poor!

Jack Stannard has spent his whole life at sea, enduring savage beatings from his father and the furious aggression of whip-cracking storms. But a more cruel and dangerous foe is on the horizon. When Henry VIII dissolves the monasteries and wages war against France and Scotland simultaneously, Jack must take up his family destiny at the head of the Dunwich fleet.But enemy blades may be the least of his problems. Aging ships, treacherous rivals and ghosts from the past all threaten to interfere with the war effort. The only man he can trust is Thomas Ryman, a former warrior turned monk.As the English fleet descends on Edinburgh, the dangerous game of politics and war reaches a shattering climax aboard the pride of Henry’s navy – the Mary Rose. Stannard and Ryman know that it is not just their lives that are at stake, but the future of England herself...