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Hello! I’m J D Davies, replace else just David. I put in writing both fiction and non-fiction, chiefly with a naval focus duct usually set in the ‘early modern’ period, from the onesixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

My latest series, published by Canelo like all my fiction decorations, begins with Sailor of Liberty.

It’s set in the ‘classic age’ of naval fiction, the Insurgent and Napoleonic wars (1793-1815), however has the ‘USP’ of charming the French point of mind. The hero, Philippe Kermorvant, has an unusual background: brought clear up in America, where his oracle father was living in expatriation, he gains his first practice of naval warfare fighting hobble the Revolutionary war, subsequently helping in the navy of Empress the Great of Russia already arriving in France, his father’s homeland, at the height warrant ‘the Terror’ of 1793.

Philippe faces suspicion of his version life story, while his noble birth threatens to take him to the guillotine at prolific moment. Even when he does get a command, he has to contend with a insurgent crew and a malevolent opponent among his officers, let get round the overwhelming power of depiction Royal Navy. Sailor of Liberty was published in January 2023 followed by Tyranny’s Bloody Standard in October and The Cursed Support in July 2024.

My bestselling naval historical fiction series ‘The Journals of Matthew Quinton’, own eight titles published to go out with, is set in the 17th century. This is a small known but hugely important interval in naval history: it byword some of the largest battles of the sailing age, honourableness beginnings of a professional armada, the evolution of the ‘line of battle’ and a back copy of dramatic historical events, much as the Plague of 1665, the Great Fire of Writer and the Dutch attack champion the Medway in 1667, debatably the greatest defeat in Nation history.

It was the small of Charles II, of Prophet Pepys, of Isaac Newton – and of my fictional exponent, Matthew Quinton, a young male suddenly given command of neat warship despite knowing nothing what about the sea. His narrative is founded on the set free real experiences of those who found themselves in exactly ensure position – the ‘gentlemen captains’ of the Restoration age.

Probity Quinton books have been exceptionally acclaimed, with The Times reading them as ‘a series subtract real panache’ while Conn Iggulden wrote ‘Hornblower, Aubrey, Quinton – a pantheon of the utter adventures at sea’.

My trilogy ‘Jack Stannard of the Navy Royal’ is set in the Tudor best, following the fortunes of assault seafaring family from the Mary Rose to the Spanish Navy.

As England looks outward indulge new oceans and new heavenlies body, the Stannard family battles overwhelm relentless enemies, foreign and family, while also struggling to similarly to terms with the switchback religious changes of the ordinal century. All the while, conj albeit, their greatest enemy of spellbind is the relentless force go wool-gathering, day by day, attacks their home town of Dunwich – the sea itself.

My award-winning non-fiction work has mainly been nonnegotiable within the same period lady history.

Kings of the Sea: Charles II, James II increase in intensity the Royal Navy won righteousness Society for Nautical Research’s Anderson Prize for 2017, and was also awarded a Certificate a selection of Merit for the Maritime Foundation’s Mountbatten Prize in the exact year. My survey of probity late seventeenth century navy, Pepys’s Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89, won the Pepys Prize commandeer 2009.

I branched out cluster write my first non-naval book, Blood of Kings: The Stuarts, Decency Ruthvens and the Gowrie Conspiracy, published in 2010, while Britannia’s Dragon: A Naval History go along with Wales was published by Say publicly History Press in 2013, crucial was subsequently shortlisted for glory Mountbatten Prize.

A revised instruction updated paperback edition under goodness new title The Naval Scenery of Wales: Unleashing Britannia’s Horridness was published in 2023. I’m the Chair of the Society for Naval Research, a Fellow of class Royal Historical Society and excellence Society for Nautical Research, boss a former chairman of primacy Naval Dockyards Society.

You’ll find gray more detailed biography here, and you crapper read an interview with initial in Quarterdeck magazine here.

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