Broos Campbell - Beyond the Graves

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No Quarter: A Matty Graves Novel

by Broos Campbell

The War of Knives: A Matty Graves Novel

by Broos Campbell

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

So moving and insightful that I had to remind myself it wasn't autobiographical. The clinical bits get so personal, though, that reading the book aloud can get kind of disconcerting.

A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire

by John Biggins

A beautifully written, quietly humorous tale of an Austro-Hungarian U-boat commander during World War I. I was sorry to finish it. But then I remembered I've got three more of them to read.

Red Seas Under Red Skies

by Scott Lynch

Starts out with a bang--which leads to another bang, which leads to another ... Lightweight, but funny and inventive.

Selected Works

The Matty Graves novels

Book 1: No Quarter

Midshipman Matty Graves must choose between family and duty.

“Refreshingly cynical.”
—Jonathan Lunn

Book 2: The War of Knives

Acting-Lieutenant Matty Graves gets caught up in the Haitian Revolution in 1800. Mayhem ensues!

"[N]ever dull . . ."
—Madison Smartt Bell

Book 3: Peter Wicked

Matty seizes the opportunity to make a name and fortune for himself—even if it means destroying those closest to him.

"[U]nusual, if somewhat jaundiced . . ."
—Library Journal

Errata

Errors after the fact

History

Lubber's Glossary

Seamen's terms in landsmen's language

Timeline

Haitian Timeline

Nautical info bits

Sailing distances around Haïti

How far it is from here to there, by sea, in English statute miles.

Officers' uniforms

Public domain stuff—I didn't write this.

Maps

Yep, still maps

Sea Stuff

E-mail the author

Text-book of Seamanship (1834)

Anglo-American folk songs

French sea songs

NOAA charts

American Coast Pilot, 1796 edition (PDF)

American Coast Pilot, 1800 edition (PDF)

McBooks Press

Sea flags

Beyond the Graves

The Witch is back

January 6, 2010

Tags: lisa jensen, Tory Lightfoot, The Witch from the Sea, pirate sex

Fans of nautical fiction in general and hot pirate sex in particular might want to go to Lisa Jensen's blog, where she's posted the first chapter of the sequel to Read More

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