Tom Pocock

Quite Close Enough

The Devil's Mariner: William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer

By Anton Gill

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Ruling the Waves

Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

By Andrew Lambert

Peter Moore

Scorbutic Sketches

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery

By Jonathan Lamb

David Gelber

A Girdle Round about the Earth

The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

By Harry Kelsey

Peter Moore

‘Great South Land of the Holy Spirit’

The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery

By Graham Seal

Jonathan Keates

Escaping the Vicoli

Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower

By Nicholas Walton

David Gelber

When Lisbon Ruled the Waves

Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire

By Roger Crowley

Lucy Moore

When the Ship Goes Down

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

Nigel Jones

Britannia Rules the Waves

Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War

By Glyn Prysor

Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines

By Tim Clayton

Nigel Jones

Life on the Ocean Wave

Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy

By Roy & Lesley Adkins

Jason Goodwin

Pirate of the Middle Sea

Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521–1580

By Roger Crowley

Nigel Jones

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail, 1793–1815

By Noel Mostert

Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 1775–1860

By David Cordingly

Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809

By Stephen Taylor

Frank Fairfield

Bodyguard of Lies

The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill’s Cover-Up

By Jonathan Fenby

Paul Lay

English Bullies, Spanish Bullion

Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs: How the English became the Scourge of the Seas

By Hugh Bicheno

Roger Crowley

Men in Boats

The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

By Lincoln Paine

Nick Bunker

Puritan Persuasions

The Rainborowes: Pirates, Puritans and a Family’s Quest for the Promised Land

By Adrian Tinniswood