Paul Weston
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: Historical Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Paul Weston is the author of Weymouth Bound, Not by Sea, Cape Corse, Gulf of Lions and Diamond Rock. His books have lively, credible plots, with accurate historical detail and realistic accounts of ships and the sea. Paul’s writing is informed by his career as a merchant seaman, on tankers, offshore, and on ferries, as well as his experience in business and engineering. A prolific inventor, he has several patents to his name. He has been sailing since childhood, initially on his family’s converted fishing boat True Vine, and in his teens, crossed the Atlantic in a home designed and built 26 footer, and in his twenties raced to the Azores in another 26 foot boat. In 2021, with his wife Sally, he completed an intermittent four year voyage to the Mediterranean and back by sea, river and canal in Mitch, a 31 foot Mitchell Sea Angler. They have now reverted to sail, and own Kadash, a 42 foot aluminium lift keeler in which they have sailed from the Mediterranean to Virginia USA via the Caribbean, the Bahamas and the Intra-Costal Waterway. For more information on Paul's books and travels please visit www.paulwestonauthor.com
Paul Weston's books
Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
In the West Indies, Captain Snowden RN, ‘the man who burned Boney’s barges’ takes command of a frigate … The year is 1805. In the opening move of the Trafalgar Campaign, the combined French and Spanish fleet escapes from the Mediterranean and arrives in Martinique, where HMS Diamond Rock, the British ‘stone sloop’ dominates the Island’s main port. Incensed by ‘English impudence’ Napoleon orders Admiral Villeneuve to capture the Diamond. While Nelson’s fleet hurries across the Atlantic in pursuit, Snowden in his frigate Columbine, Commander Kennedy in Oleander, and Lieutenant Luciani ashore harry the enemy in a campaign of irregular warfare. Snowden, Kennedy, Luciani – inspiring leader, superb seaman, ruthless guerilla …
Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
Britain is at war with Napoleonic France, and Lieutenant Snowden RN is sent to Bermuda to commission a fast cedar built schooner, Oleander. In the Mediterranean, the French control the island of Corsica, having defeated the short lived Corsican Republic, and Pasquale Paoli, the Republic’s leader, now an old man, is in exile in London. Snowden and Oleander are sent to Corsica to support a delicate and dangerous operation which could be of considerable assistance in defeating Bonaparte. In this fast moving, historically accurate and complex novel, the author evokes the era of the Napoleonic wars, set as they were against the background of scientific progress and the nascent Industrial Revolution.
Genres: Adventure, Commercial Fiction, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Set in 1805, the year of Trafalgar and Austerlitz, the fast moving, historically realistic and original plot evokes the intrigue and dangerous operations conducted by the Royal Navy to undermine the French during the Napoleonic Wars. Lieutenant Snowden's gift for seizing opportunities takes 'Oleander' on a wide ranging cruise from the rocky creeks and tides of Brittany to the Mediterranean and Morocco. Though Spain has entered the war against Britain on the side of Napoleonic France, the causus belli provided by the Royal Navy’s seizure of its treasure fleet, the Bonapartists are unpopular with the Spanish people. This will eventually lead to the uprisings and brutal repressions depicted by Goya, and the defeat of the French in the Peninsular War, but in 1805 Lieutenant Snowden RN is sent in HMS 'Oleander' to the Mediterranean on a secret mission to encourage the Spanish opposition.
Genres: Adventure, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
The brief respite of the Peace of Amiens is over, and Britain is once again at war with France. Napoléon knows that if he is to win the war, he must invade England, but the Armée d’Angleterre is blockaded in Boulogne by the Royal Navy. Frustrated by British sea power, Napoléon entrusts an alternative scheme to the brilliant Captain Morlaix which if successful, could lead to the subjugation of Britain. During the Peace, English visitors had flocked to France, among them Midshipmen Stone and Snowden. At a soiree in Paris, they attracted the attention of Fouché, the feared minister of police, who believed that Jack Stone was a civilian when he fought the French in Normandy, and is therefore a criminal. In the subsequent war, Lieutenant Snowden leads a raid to disrupt France's invasion plans. The era of the Napoleonic wars is evoked by the author in this fast paced,...
Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
The merchant ship Cicely is captured in the English Channel by the brilliant and ruthless Captain Morlaix. Apprentice Jack Stone's life is changed forever. Can he survive? Can anyone stop Morlaix and the French striking a damaging blow to the heart of the British Establishment?