The authors
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The books
The heroes
The companions
The cast
The ships
Wives and lovers
Historical characters
 
 
Nelson's death on board HMS Victory at Trafalgar. The navy he inspired however fought on - and still generates novel after novel.

 

 

 
This section of the site is a vade mecum for readers of the several series of historical novels about the Royal Navy in the time of Nelson.
 
 
Authors covered are (alphabetically) Tom Connery, David Donachie, C.S.Forester, Anthony Forrest, Harvey Haislip, Adam Hardy, Porter Hill, Alexander Kent, Dewey Lambdin, Kenneth Maynard, Tom McNamara, Ellis K. Meacham, James L. Nelson, Patrick O'Brian, C. Northcote Parkinson, Dan Parkinson, Dudley Pope, Showell Styles, James Dillon White, Simon White, Leonard Wibberly, Jon Williams and Richard Woodman.
Two new authors who have announced new series that haven't appeared yet are Charles White and Joseph L.O'Steen.
It's enough for me to try and concentrate on this limited selection of series about the Golden Age. For an outstanding, pretty well exhaustive list of novels about the sea in general you cannot do better than go to John Kohnen's bibliography.