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Venetian Interlude
To ignore entirely the basic rule about never starting any piece of writing with a digression: I think it’s probably fair to say that when you’re lost at night in the eerie, empty alleyways of Venice,...
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Merry Christmas, Restoration Navy Style
Henry Teonge, a Warwickshire clergyman, was fifty-five when he first went to sea as a naval chaplain, presumably forced into the job by the extent of his debts. In 1675 he joined the Fourth Rate...
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The Spirit of Not Dead Fred
I am not dead yet I can dance and I can sing I am not dead yet I can do the Highland Fling (‘Not Dead Fred’ from Spamalot) I’ve always been intrigued by the possibilities presented by overlaps between...
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Worthy Causes, Part 2
The Scottish Houses in Veere (credit to scottishdiasporatapestry.org) Quite by chance, I came across the news that the ‘Scottish Houses’ museum in Veere, the Netherlands, is on a hit-list of...
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Cover Story
I’m delighted to be able to headline this week’s post by revealing the cover of the new Quinton novel, The Battle of All The Ages, which is number five in the series and is due to be published in the...
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Kernow bys vyken!
Cornwall has had something of a mixed week. On the plus side, there was the government’s decision to grant it national minority status. Now, whatever the legalistic merits or demerits of such status,...
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Hoisting the Ensign
I’m delighted to be able to announce the publication, on 1 June, of Ensign Royal, the first Matthew Quinton adventure outside the main series and the first to be written specifically for e-formats....
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The Rage is Coming!
Cue drum roll…cue trumpets… Ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announce that the next ‘Journal of Matthew Quinton’, the sixth book in the series, will be entitled The Rage of Fortune. But this is a...
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The Real Gentlemen Captains, Redux, Part I
In the lead-up to my appearance on 13 March at Weymouth Leviathan, Britain’s first maritime literary festival, I thought I’d reblog some of my very earliest posts on this site, from November 2011,...
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The 350th Anniversary of the Four Days Battle, 1666
The posting of this blog coincides with the exact 350th anniversary of the start of the Four Days’ Battle in 1666. Perfectly understandably, all of the media and social media attention focused on naval...
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