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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator 'I cannot think of anyone who would not love this book... It is an extraordinary true story, beautifully...

Sea People by Christina Thompson is a riveting historical exploration that delves into the mysterious origins and epic journeys of the Polynesians—one of the world's most enigmatic and adventurous seafaring peoples. The narrative unfolds over a thousand years ago, focussing on how these master navigators discovered and colonised the far-flung islands within a vast triangle from Hawaii to New Zealand...

From the million-copy bestselling author of The Frozen River comes a thrilling historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, an infamous Irish sea captain and folk heroine who risked everything to protect her people against the powerful Elizabethan regime. Grace O’Malley was born to be at sea. Raised by her father, chief of clan O’Malley, Grace learns early...

This is one of the new Icon titles from Haynes. Originally published in the classic manual size, this compact format will appeal to trade outlets and gift markets. The world famous ocean liner Titanic, which sank on her maiden voyage in 1912, is the latest subject to receive the Haynes Manual treatment. With an authoritative text and hundreds of illustrations,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee…’ Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain...

Explore the beautiful sundecks, marvel at the luxurious design, and relive the tragic sinking of the world's most famous ship with The Story of the Titanic for Children. Over one hundred years on, the captivating story of the Titanic has lost none of its appeal. This stunning book explores real-life stories and little-known facts that will absorb young readers. Beautiful...

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian is the enthralling first instalment in the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, celebrated as one of the finest collections of historical novels ever penned. The story sets sail in the early 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars and introduces the reader to Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Dr Stephen Maturin, a ship’s surgeon with a covert...

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration – the fateful final journey of Captain James Cook. In July 1776, Captain James Cook began his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, in Hawaii, Cook was killed – stabbed by the indigenous population. What brought...

A picture-packed guide to the Titanic, from its incredible construction, catastrophic sinking, and lasting legacy. Travel back to the year 1912 and experience the tragic tale of the world's most famous and luxurious liner. This book tells the story of Titanic's fateful maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City. Learn what life was like for people on board...

It was supposed to be unsinkable... George Calder must be the luckiest kid alive—he and his little sister, Phoebe, are sailing with their aunt on the Titanic, the greatest ship ever built! George can’t resist exploring every inch of the incredible boat, even if it gets him into trouble. But one night while George is off exploring, a terrible boom...

A South Seas classic since 1966, this is the story of one New Zealander brave enough to do what we have all now and then dreamed of doing – live alone on a desert island. In his youth, Tom Neale was an ordinary seaman and for years a shopkeeper among the Cook Islands, but he was in his fifties when...

A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica **A Times Best Book of 2021** The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter August 1897: The Belgica set sail,...

A number one best-selling sensation, In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick, is an epic true-life tale that recounts one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century. Beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory, this captivating narrative plunges readers into the harrowing events of November 1820, when the whaleship Essex was attacked by...

Lisa Wilkinson's The Titanic Story of Evelyn is the never-before-told true tale of the only Australian-born survivor of the sinking of the Titanic. It is the story of a brave young Australian nurse who wanted to see the world, fell in love, then almost lost it all in one of the greatest maritime tragedies the world has ever known. And...

The tenth anniversary edition of Longitude by Dava Sobel brings readers a captivating and dramatic recount of one of the greatest scientific quests in history: the search for a reliable method to determine a ship’s longitude at sea. This engrossing tale centres around the epic struggle to solve the “longitude problem,” a scientific conundrum that, for centuries, left sailors adrift...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick A Financial Times, The Times and The Economist Book of the Year ‘Gripping... A startling tale of fraud and impunity.’ - The Economist ‘I read it in one sitting, and I know it’ll stay with me for a long time.’ -...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee…” Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain...

Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea & Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to the founding of our nation, as told from the point...

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is a masterful tale of obsession, conflict, and the majestic yet unfathomable sea. At its heart, the story follows Ishmael, a sailor who signs aboard the whaling ship Pequod, under the mysterious and vengeful Captain Ahab. Ahab's singular quest for vengeance on the great white whale, Moby-Dick, which had previously cost him his leg, drives the...

The Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins. Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home. The Falklands War in 1982 was one of the strangest in British history. At the time, many Britons saw it...

Discover 12 gripping retellings of fascinating shipwrecks in this mind-blowing kids book packed with heroic escapes, daring rescues, and oceanic adventure. Bursting with amazing illustrations, historic photography, and interactive surprises, this is a must-buy book for curious minds fascinated by dramatic real-life events and the secrets of the sea. Did you know there are over three million shipwrecks lying beneath...

An exhilarating, suspenseful naval thriller set in the Second World War, as gripping as Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea. Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks. Set in the early days of WWII, The Good Shepherd tells the story of an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by Captain Ernest Krause (Hanks) in his first command of a...

1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies presents a revolutionary argument that challenges the traditional history of global exploration. On 8 March 1421, an immense fleet, the largest the world had ever witnessed, set sail from China. These mighty ships, some stretching nearly five hundred feet in length, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal...

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this’ — BILL BRYSON ‘A brilliant read … Game of Thrones but in the real world’ — ANTHONY HOROWITZ PICKED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE GUARDIAN, THE DAILY MAIL AND THE DAILY EXPRESS. The sinking of...

An Economist Best Book of 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors 'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times 'Fascinating... wonderful material, well researched and placed in its wider context' Spectator From a Bronze...

WINSTON CHURCHILL called it ‘the worst journey in the world’. But was even this telling quote, describing the nightmarish torment experienced while transporting military aid to northern Russia during World War Two, an understatement? As this book’s title implies, Battle of the Arctic tells a unique story. For much of the conflict was complicated by terrific storms, snow, ice, fog,...

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific. Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans, they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese...

Hornblower is Hamlet in command of a battleship - New York Times 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command. As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship...

Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series. April 1803, and the Peace of Amiens is failing as Horatio Hornblower takes a three-master on a vital reconnaissance mission. On the day of his marriage to Maria, Hornblower is ordered to take the Hotspur and head for Brest—war is coming and Napoleon will not catch His Majesty's navy with...

New to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images. In this thrilling adventure tale by the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the Nautilus. Over the course of their fantastical voyage, they encounter the lost city...

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures, introducing these modern classics to a new generation. HMS Surprise follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career...

Set in the summer of 1856 – in the midst of a ship race to deliver supplies to the California Gold Rush – captain’s wife Mary Ann Patten is forced to take the helm from her husband. Within days she has put down a mutiny and must attempt to steer a 216' clipper ship laden with the modern equivalent of...

A beautiful picture book about hope, change and the passing of time. Winner of the Caldecott Medal 2019. On the highest rock of a tiny island at the edge of the world stands a lighthouse. From dusk to dawn, the lighthouse beams, sending its light out to sea, guiding the ships on their way. As the seasons pass and the...

Not many ships’ cats have even one memorial statue, let alone six. But Trim does, including one outside Euston Station in London, proudly unveiled by Prince William on the bicentenary of Matthew Flinders’s death – 19 July 2014. Trim was the ship’s cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801...

North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. In Four Points of the Compass, Jerry Brotton takes the reader on a journey of directional discovery. He reveals why Hebrew culture privileges east; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing north at the top of...

Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series. May, 1810 – and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line... Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers, Hornblower knows that by the...

Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series! June, 1808 - off the Coast of Nicaragua, Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full... Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, El Supremo; to find a water route across the...

Launching a major new paperback series - Penguin English Library. The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...' Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature -...

The War for the Seas by Evan Mawdsley provides a comprehensive exploration of maritime warfare during World War II from an international perspective, challenging conventional understandings of the conflict. This bold and authoritative history recounts the monumental struggle for control of the seas, which was pivotal to the outcome of the war. Through gripping narration and meticulous research, Mawdsley elucidates...

The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the vast and often brutal expanse of our world's oceans. This gripping exploration reveals the untamed frontiers that lie beyond the reach of law and order, where human behaviour pushes extreme boundaries and criminality runs rampant. Urbina, through direct encounters and harrowing narratives, delves into this hidden...

Meticulous research... Veitch fleshes out a tale of courage and tragedy and brings it to life with drama, passion and detail. Herald Sun For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but...

Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea. However, unlike many other nautical compendiums, the focus of this book is on the unusual, the overlooked or the downright extraordinary. Thus, someone most of us do not know, Admiral William Brown, is given equal coverage to Admiral Nelson. Without Admiral Brown releasing Garibaldi, modern Italy might not exist. And...

In this epic African adventure, Wilbur Smith returns to his longest running series—and the very beginnings of the Courtney family saga in the late seventeenth century—with co-author Giles Kristian. Henry 'Hal' Courtney has always lived at sea. He watched his own father executed during the Anglo-Dutch naval war, and spent his entire young adulthood avenging his father's death. Now a...

Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series. 1813, and Horatio Hornblower is propelled toward the heart of the French Empire and his old enemy, Napoleon. Sir Horatio Hornblower has received strict and highly confidential orders from the highest rank—he must embark upon a grave and perilous mission to recapture the Flame in the Bay of Seine, where...

Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series. 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas... As an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the French wars, Horatio Hornblower, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, must still face savage pirates, reckless revolutionaries, and...

Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series 1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession... After a near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon...

Part of a series of new editions of Conrad's most famous novels in Black Classics. This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age...

'If we had only two or three of O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction. But this is his nineteenth volume!' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, Literary Review Following the extraordinary success of The Yellow Admiral, this latest Aubrey-Maturin novel brings alive the sights and sounds of...

As a young girl, Tate Beaumont fell in love with Matthew Lassiter... and had her heart brutally crushed. Eight years later, Tate has worked hard to become a marine archaeologist, while Matthew is a talented but troubled salvage diver. And both share a dream—to find Angelique's Curse, a ruby and diamond-encrusted amulet, steeped in legend and said to be lost...

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors 'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with...

On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brand-new, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold waters of the North Atlantic....

The Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a personal decision that at all costs, the ‘island...

A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics, and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 ‘Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world’ THE TIMES ‘A work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination’ RORY STEWART ‘Bold, beautifully written and filled with insights...

Embark on an epic exploration of historical and adventurous odysseys In Wild Journeys, Bruce Ansley takes readers on an exhilarating expedition through some of New Zealand's most rugged and compelling landscapes. With a narrative rich in historical intrigue and natural wonder, this book is a tapestry of journeys both famous and forgotten, traversing the diverse and often untamed regions that...

In April 1968, the New Zealand interisland passenger ferry Wahine, a fast and modern ship for its time, hit Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour in a cyclone, the worst storm ever recorded in New Zealand's history. Six and a half hours later, the ship heeled over and sank, with the eventual loss of fifty-three lives. Among the...

Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash is a harrowing account of survival, treachery, and bravery that transports readers back to the 17th century and the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia. In 1629, the Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the coast of what is now Australia, leading to a catastrophic shipwreck. Onboard were 332 men, women, and...

Step behind the control panel and into the action with the Electronic Battleship game, as each player is out to destroy their opponent's fleet before their own is destroyed. This edition of the classic game of naval combat features an easier set up than previous versions of the Electronic Battleship game. With up to 64 preset layouts and an option...

Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. 'A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many?' (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi) On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette sailed from England on what should have been...

1973: The incredible true story of the Blythe Star disaster, which left ten men shipwrecked and alone on the wild Southern Ocean off Tasmania. Almost two weeks later they were found on a remote trail on a southern peninsula, and their story would stun the nation ... and leave a powerful legacy in its wake. When the coastal freighter MV...

Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series. The final Horatio Hornblower story tells of Napoleon's plans to invade England... Set in 1805, Hornblower and the Crisis finds Horatio Hornblower in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a vicious hand-to-hand encounter with a French brig. The admiralty rewards Hornblower by sending him on a dangerous espionage mission...

The Convoy represents a fresh approach to the story of the Battle of the Atlantic. It is also the first to deal with the more spectacular story of HG-76, a major turning point in the naval war. HG-76 sailed from Gibraltar to Britain in December 1941 and was specially targeted by the Germans. A wolfpack of U-boats was sent against...

Hunt the Bismarck by Angus Konstam is a gripping and meticulously researched narrative that delves into one of the most dramatic episodes of naval warfare during the Second World War. The book takes you through the intense and suspense-laden operation known as Rheinübung, undertaken by Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941, followed by her relentless pursuit by the...

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration— the fateful final journey of Captain James Cook. In July 1776, Captain James Cook began his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, in Hawaii, Cook was killed—stabbed by the indigenous population. What brought Cook to this...

The Seeking Adventure mini puzzle from the Trevell box is a mini puzzle made up of 99 pieces . Illustrated by Anna Vaughn J. , this mini puzzle depicts a young woman immersed in an extraordinary maritime adventure through her dreams, surely inspired by the book she fell asleep reading. 🧩 99 pieces 📏 Finished puzzle size: 10 cm by 14 cm 📦 Box size: 9 cm x...

You’ve accepted an invitation to an all-expenses-paid vacation aboard the Lady Marigold II luxury yacht, a sought-after casino owned by Captain Melville. One night, a storm rolls in and the captain is spotted face down in the sea! As the boat takes on water, you and your fellow players are put to the test: Work together to escape the yacht...

Built in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, in 1853, the Edwin Fox is the only remaining vessel of her kind and has made a unique and unmatched contribution to world maritime history. The ship's importance is acknowledged by Heritage New Zealand, which has designated it as Category 1—the highest level of protection. Built in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, in 1853, the ship is...

The final instalment of N.A.M. Rodger's great trilogy on Britain's naval history At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840, the Admiralty was full of 'intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar'. How the Royal Navy reformed and reinvigorated itself in the course of the nineteenth century is just one...

A tidal wave of pounding excitement from the first page to the last... Two and a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic, the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. The Americans want it. So do the Russians. Ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt faces one of the most stupendous tests of courage and ingenuity...

A magical journey of scientific discovery begins here! Four friends, the Museum Kids, are off on an incredible adventure to discover the history of the oceans at the Oceans and Maritime History Museum. A magical lift takes them to explore life in the oceans millions of years ago, including the mighty megalodon, to see a Viking longship and the world's...

Indianapolis is the thrilling true story of the greatest naval disaster in United States history – the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during World War II – and the fight for survival and redemption that followed. Four days after delivering the components of the world’s first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, the Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese...

The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats. When fighting broke out in September 1939, neither the British Royal Navy nor the German Kriegsmarine were prepared for another war in the North Atlantic. Having defeated the...

A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the...

The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of the deep sea. CLIVE CUSSLER David Mearns has found some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. His deep-water searches have solved the 66-year mystery of HMAS Sydney, discovered...

Dirk Pitt is back in an explosive new adventure, continuing the series from the UK No. 1 bestselling "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler. Tibet, 1959. In the turmoil of the Communist takeover of the mountain kingdom, a Buddhist artefact of immense importance appears to have been lost to history. Until, sixty years later, clues to its survival emerged from...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 ‘Exhilarating and whip-smart’ THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them – an aficionado of...

An awe-inspiring deep-dive into the treasures found on the sea floor and what they reveal about our past. A shipwreck is a time capsule. When a maritime archaeologist picks up an item from the seabed, there is a direct connection with history. The last time the object was touched could have been centuries before; now, it’s starting a new life....

MISHAP 1968 – Caught in a sudden violent storm, the Wahine ferry foundered after running aground on Barrett’s Reef, attempting to enter Wellington Harbour. Battered mercilessly by the elements, the Wahine was listing heavily to starboard when the order to abandon ship was given. The tragic events that followed became our nation’s worst modern maritime disaster. MISERY 1945 – Struck...

Days seem so exhilarating aboard a ship: surrounded by water, an ever-changing spectrum of blues, greys and black, the sky surrounds you like a great bowl. The colours change from Prussian blue, speckled with turquoise, white horses, to fifty shades of grey, with the horizon a thin silver line and a Biblical display of golden sunrays, spilling down. For Celia...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal. On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers—the ship’s captain Frederick, his wife Elizabeth, their three teenage sons, and their...

The tenth instalment in LJ Ross's globally bestselling DCI Ryan mystery series, set in the beautiful village of Seahouses on the Northumberland Coast. FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND AND THE HERMITAGE Between the devil and the deep blue sea... Viking treasure is discovered beneath the icy waters of the North Sea and local historian Doctor Anna...