By Sam Llewellyn
2010
Gavin Chance, yacht broker, ex-policeman and gone-to-seed Olympic hopeful. Gavin is being hunted by his ex-wife, his creditors. And even more worryingly, by some representatives of the fishing industry who make their living massacring fish stocks and doing even worse things to people. It is time for Gavin to go on the run - in a a beat-up trawler, on a classic schooner, and in one-design racing yachts built for gentlemen and sailed by gangsters...

Pb.

Sam Lewellyn

Bill Tyrrell's elderly cutter Vixen sails across the North Sea as part of a sail training fleet, but something snags the propeller when they tie up next to the big Russian barrque - a body....

Pb. 325pp

by Bjorn Larsson

A gripping novel of the sea, set in the waters of the Western Isles.

400pp, paperback

by Bjorn Larsson

A gripping novel of the sea, set in the waters of the Western Isles.

388pp, hardback

Sam Lewellyn

A tale of international conspiracy stretching from Ethiopia to Boston engulfs George David after his sister is murdered. A transatlantic race is part of the solution...

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Sam Lewellyn

The west coast of Scotland is a fine cruising ground, but Harry Frazer rescues a man who fell off a passing ship in the dead of the night. Ecological and personal disaster loom....

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Sam Lewellyn

Charlie Agutter is a designer of leading edge racing yachts and his boats are being sabotaged in the run up to the Captain's Cup series. Then the killing starts.....

Pb. 223pp

By L.M. Lawson

A suspense filled mystery that will entertain and enthrall the reader with descriptions of small boat cruising. Setting out from their home Californian waters, tension builds as they continue along Mexico's Baja penninsula, their fate becomes entangled with dangerous men aboard a stolen boat until finally the plot explodes in a grand finale.

Pb 230p

By L.M.Lawson

Sun-baked golden sand's, tropical seas and ice cold margarita's were the goal when a couple set sail, but they encountered a body and video camera floating at sea. The authorities want that camera - but so does someone else. As the couple are pursued through the mountains of Mexico they realise that the drowing may not have been accidental...

Pb 264p

By E. Childers
2010
“the first modern thriller”, The Riddle of the Sands is the best-known sailing narrative and a true classic. It was recently ranked 37th in The Observer’s list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the past 300 years. Winston Churchill even credited it for the Admiralty’s decision to build naval bases in Scapa Flow.
The Riddle of the Sands tells the story of two young men on a sailing trip to the islands off the Dutch coast who discover a secret German naval base, and an enemy armada preparing to invade England.

Pb. 198x129mm 288pp b/w maps and photos

RRP £8.99 OUR PRICE £7.99

By E. Childers

A best seller since 1903 - a gripping plot set in the Waddenzee between the Frisian Islands and the German/Dutch mainland.

260p Hb

By James Patterson
2009
As Peter Carlyle, a smooth-talking, super-successful lawyer, waved his family off on a sailing holiday, all they had in mind was lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm broke out, an explosion caused the boat to vanish without a trace and the family were lost, presumed dead. Until now.

When a message in a bottle is washed up on a shore, it becomes apparent that there must have been at least one survivor. But all is not as it seems. The race is on to rescue the Carlyles, but does everyone looking for the family really want to find them alive? Survival may be the least of their concerns.

Pb. 464pp 198x129mm

The National Maritime Museum

To mark the 70th anniversary of its opening, the National Maritime Museum has brought together this collection of new short stories inspired by a great literary muse. From Orkney and the west of Ireland to the Med and the N.W. Passage the stories challenge our perception of the sea. Authors include S. Llewellyn, D. Barry, C. Lambert, C. Cleave, T. Hadley and many more.

Pb 308pp

Sam Lewellyn

Victoria and Guy Blakeney-Jones inherit the tiny Cornish island of Trelise and start work on restoring the garden. It then starts to give up its dark family secrets and the ghosts from the past start to endanger their idyll....

Sam Llewellyn

A spin off from Erskine Childer's classic 'The Riddle of the Sands'. It is April 1903 and professional skipper Charlie Webb has been summoned by the Duke to meet the enigmatic Carruthers. The Frisian Islands hide old wrecks loaded with bullion and part of the Kaiser's new navy....

Paperback, 340pp.

By H. MacDonald
2007
An exciting novel based around the world famous Sydney Hobart yacht race. The race of 1998 demonstrated the risks of bad weather and this year Kirsten McKenzie must win.....

Pb. 384pp

By R. Austen

Travellers from UK, USA & South Africa reach the Caribbean, where the islands provide an exotic backdrop for strong passions & betrayals. But it's in Grenada where they all finally meet. The events that follow test them as they each face their own demons, relationships, & the greater forces of nature as the hurricane season starts.

PB 312pp

By R. Woodman

To the captains of the great tea clippers sailing from China to England, the only thing that mattered was to be first home - to some, it mattered so much that they would lay bets against rival captains. Sailing from Shanghai in 1869, Capt Kemball races Capt. Richards - the wager is his daughter's hand in marriage.

272p Pb

Sam Lewellyn

Sam Lewellyn spent part of his carefree and mis-spent youth rowing a small and beaten up dinghy down the River Severn from Ludlow and then via various unsavoury canals and finally the Thames to London. This journey undertaken in a moment of levity, soon became a major regret and a hideous experience....but Sam turns the experience into a rich comedy.