Newsflash

Following the death of the owner, Fireship Press LLC, (publishers of the first five Fighting Sail books), will close at the end of August. These titles are currently being updated and revised before moving to Old Salt Press. His Majesty’s Ship should reappear shortly, and it is hoped the entire series will be under the OSP banner by the end of 2024.

Alaric Bond

I have worked in various fields including television, radio and the stage but now focus on historical nautical fiction with seventeen published novels to date. Fourteen are in the acclaimed ‘Fighting Sail’ series that centres on the British navy of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

Apart from writing and reading I enjoy cycling (in gumboots rather than lycra), sailing and carpentry as well as jazz, blues and dance band music from the thirties onwards. I also collect musical instruments and 78 rpm records.

[Updated June 2021]

 

A superb storyteller, Bond weaves suspenseful scenarios which move like smoke and oakum from one plight to the next.Quarterdeck Magazine