Fiction

By Jules Verne After a mysterious sea monster damages an ocean liner, the US government assembles a team in New York City to track down the creatu...

By W. E. Bowman An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been a cult favourite s...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short ...

With a new dinghy, a committed sponsor and a place on the pre-Olympic training camp Xanthe Ribiero assumes that she’s set for success. Instead she ...

By Rafael Sabatini With and introduction by Kate Mosse Wrongfully arrested following the Monmouth rebellion of 1685, Peter Blood, country physician...

By Arthur Ransome ‘Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!’ Dick and Dorothea - also known as The Ds - arrive in Norfolk all ready to lear...

By Arthur Ransome ‘Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!’ Dick and Dorothea - also known as The Ds - arrive in Norfolk all ready to lear...

By Arthur Ransome ‘Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!’ Dick and Dorothea - also known as The Ds - arrive in Norfolk all ready to lear...

Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, DAS BOOT is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second Wor...

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publici...

FRom picturesque canals to the swirling currents of the ocean, a world of secrets lies buried beneath the surface of the water. Dubious vessels cra...

By Sam Llewellyn It is hard, if you are a girl in 1814 who is interested in ships. What you have to do is dress up as a boy, and go exploring. W...

By Julia Jones 'When Donny saw which boat it was, slipping stealthily up-river in this dead hour between night and day, he crouched lower and motio...

By Joseph Conrad 'The horror! The horror!'A haunting and hugely influential Modernist masterpiece, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Joseph Conrad...

By Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. H.M...

The Third Horatio Hornblower Tale of the SeaApril 1803, and the Peace of Amiens is failing as Horatio Hornblower takes a sloop on a vital reconnais...

An epic voyage, undertaken with the grandest of ambitions. Laperouse leaves France in the Spring of 1785 with two ships under his command, knowing ...

The Second Horatio Hornblower Tale of the SeaThe nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower is ordered to the Cari...

By Joseph Conrad 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...

By Patrick O'Brien Set sail for the read of your life ... Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series...

By Arthur Ransome In the tenth instalment of the Swallows and Amazons series, the young crew come face-to-face with the fiercest pirate of the Sout...

Moby-Dick is one of the most expansive feats of imagination in the whole of literature: the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insan...

"Moominpappa yearns to make a fresh start, to find a rocky island and a lighthouse where he'll feel alert and important again. And so the Moomins s...

By C.S Forester 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . . .As a seventeen-year-old wi...