June 2023 Issue Stephen Taylor Cast Away in Patagonia The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann LR
April 2022 Issue Stephen Taylor From Out the Azure Main The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels By Tom Nancollas LR
June 2020 Issue Mathew Lyons Come Hell & High Water Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail 1740–1840 By Stephen Taylor
December 2019 Issue Neil Armstrong Showdown on the Linoleum Ocean A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War By Simon Parkin
May 2016 Issue 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 LR
December 2015 Issue Jonathan Keates Escaping the Vicoli Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower By Nicholas Walton LR
May 2015 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Down by the Sea Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World By Noel Malcolm Peiresc’s Mediterranean World By Peter N Miller
April 2009 Issue James Holland Men-of-War The Bitter Sea: The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean, 1935–1949 By Simon Ball LR
October 2008 Issue Nigel Jones Life on the Ocean Wave Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy By Roy & Lesley Adkins LR
May 2008 Issue Jason Goodwin Pirate of the Middle Sea Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521–1580 By Roger Crowley LR
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