Nautical fiction - Age of Sails - on this site

We are great fans of natical fiction, especially nautical fiction from the Age of Sails. Therefore we spend a lot of time reading books in this genre, as well as reviewing such books. All the reviews are written by us and are original. In addition to the book reviews, we usually provide a bibliography and some additional information on each of the authors.

Here is an overview of series and authors in this genre that we have reviewed so far (we add new reviews all the time). Note that a number of other books by the same authors that are not part of the series listed here have been reviewed as well - for instance other books by C.S. Forester. Links to these are provided in the pages for the series. Nautical fiction books from other time periods, such as the military fiction by Douglas Reeman from WWII, are not listed here either.

The series are sorted by the family name of the hero of the series.

The Aubrey/Maturin series, by Patrick O'Brian

Other O'Brian:

The William Bentley series, by Jan Needle

Richard Bolitho series, by Alexander Kent (aka Douglas Reeman)

William C. Hammond: Richard Cutler series

The Nathaniel Drinkwater series, by Richard Woodman

Richard Delancey series, by C. Northcote Parkinson

Charles Edgemont series, by Jay Worrall

The Geoffry Frost series, by J. E. Fender

The Fury series, by G. S. Beard

The Hornblower Saga, by C. S. Forester

Thomas Kydd series, by Julian Stockwin

Alan Lewrie series, by Dewey Lambdin

The Markham of the Marines series, by Tom Connery

The Lord Ramage series, by Dudley Pope

The Ned Yorke series, by Dudley Pope


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