IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE PERFECT HOLIDAY. Day One on the island? Seven strangers journey to Fiji for the holiday of a lifetime. But the unthinkable happens - the plane crashing on a remote island, miles from home, miles from safety. Day Thirteen on the island? Thrown together in the wreckage of paradise, the list of survivors diminishes. Names of the lost carved into the bark of a tree, one by one. Day Thirty-three on the island? And with each passing...

They say we'll never know what happened to those men. They say the sea keeps its secrets . . . 'A mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once. I didn?t want it to end' S J Watson Cornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. The entrance door is locked from the inside. The clocks have stopped. The Principal Keeper?s weather log describes a mighty storm, but the skies have been clear all week. What happened...

As the streets of Paris are overrun with revolutionary fervour, England prepares for the inevitable war with France. Along the south coast, the Royal Navy readies its fleet & its most capable officers. Lieutenant Charles Hayden, who has a French mother, is posted to an ageing frigate, the Themis, under the command of Captain Josiah Hart.

Jamaica 1665. A lone British outpost in Spanish-controlled Caribbean waters. Its capital, Port Royal is the last place anyone would expect an attack to be launched on a Spanish stronghold. Yet that is exactly what renowned privateer Captain Charles Hunter plans to do, with the connivance of Charles II's ruling governor.

When a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. It is true that he has been getting into trouble more often since his Welsh wife Laura left him. But Mahmood is secure in his innocence in a country where, he thinks, justice is served. It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of freedom dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a terrifying fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice...

This is the story of a madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, the book is part of its author's lifelong meditation on America.

After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to first glory, then ruin.

With Bonaparte held to a stalemate in Europe, the race to empire is now resumed. Britain's ambitions turn to the Spice Islands, the Dutch East Indies, where Admiral Pellew has been sent to confront the enemy's vastly rich holdings in these tropical islands. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd joins reinforcements to snatch these for the British Crown. The two colonial masters of India and the East Indies face each other in mortal striving for the region - there...

1793: the onset of Britain's conflict with Revolutionary France. Ex-captain turned privateer, Harry Ludlow finds himself on board the naval 74-gun Magnanime, with his brother James. In command is Oliver Carter, a captain with whom Harry has an unfortunate history.