THE NICHOLAS CRUWYS NAVAL SERIES
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Historical naval fiction, available in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook.
Book 1
Soundings Edge
American Colonies & Caribbean, 1774-1776
A young officer navigates treacherous colonial waters as revolution stirs in America.
Book 4
Crescents Edge
Mediterranean & Gibraltar, 1780-1782
The war reaches the Mediterranean as Spain joins the conflict and Gibraltar is besieged.
Book 7
Revolution's Edge
France & Atlantic, 1788-1791
Revolution tears France apart and Cruwys must navigate the chaos of a world turned upside down.
Book 10
The Company's Ocean
India and the Indian Ocean
In the year 1794, an East Indiaman is taken in the Strait of Sunda by French warships that knew her name, and knew exactly where to wait.
The war of the French Revolution has reached the farthest ocean. Fresh from the Glorious First of June, Captain Nicholas Cruwys of the Royal Navy and the frigate Topaze are ordered east — to waters he last sailed as a young officer bound for Canton, a decade and a war ago. The harbours are the ones he remembers. Nothing else is.
For this is the Company's ocean now: the East India Company, a power greater than most kingdoms, with its own armies, its own courts, its own justice. Somewhere inside its vast machinery, something rotten enough to feed French cruisers that are never quite where chance alone would put them. From Bombay to Madras to the coasts beyond, Nicholas must fight the King's war in an ocean where the King's writ runs thin, with the woman he loves and a daughter he has never seen half the world astern in Lisbon.
Book 2
Latitudes Edge
Caribbean & Atlantic, 1776-1778
War with the American colonies escalates as Cruwys is drawn deeper into Atlantic conflict.
Book 5
Liberty's Edge
North America & Caribbean, 1781-1783
The American war reaches its climax as Cruwys fights in the decisive naval battles of the final campaign.
Book 8
Burning Harbour
Mediterranean & Toulon, 1793
War with Revolutionary France begins and the Royal Navy fights to hold Toulon against the Republican army.
Book 3
Longitudes Edge
Atlantic & West Africa, 1778-1780
France enters the war and the conflict becomes truly global, stretching from the Atlantic to West Africa.
Book 6
Northern Edge
North Sea & Baltic, 1783-1786
Peace brings new dangers as Cruwys is sent to the cold waters of the North Sea and Baltic.
Book 9
First of June
Atlantic & English Channel, 1794
The first great fleet battle of the French Revolutionary Wars — and Cruwys is at the heart of it.
Combined EBook set
Books 1–3: The Early Voyages
The first three novels in the Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series — from Cook's Pacific voyage to the aftermath of the American War — available together.
Box Set
Books 1–9:
The Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series (9 book series)
The Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series A series of historical naval novels in the classic age of sail
In the tumultuous years between 1775 and 1815, Nicholas Cruwys must navigate the perilous waters of ambition, honour, and command. The Cruwys Naval Chronicle follows the rise of a quiet but resolute officer from midshipman to command of his own vessel—and perhaps beyond.
Rich in historical detail, maritime precision, and human complexity, these novels trace not only Nicholas's naval advancement but the inward shaping of a man tested by conflicting loyalties: to the Service, to those he commands, and to the private compass of his conscience. Through encounters with remarkable mentors, formidable adversaries, and women who challenge his understanding of love and attachment, Nicholas navigates both distant shores and the uncharted territories of the heart. Through encounters with remarkable mentors, colleagues and formidable adversaries alike, Nicholas confronts the moral complexities of serving an expanding empire in an age of revolutionary change.
Steeped in the authentic spirit of the Georgian navy and written in a voice that echoes the elegance of the age, this series offers both the sweep of naval warfare and the nuanced portrait of a man finding his bearings in extraordinary times.