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A seemingly sleepy Devonshire village, Burracombe is in fact full of intrigue and drama.

Although unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1966, this novel delivers a full measure of action at sea.

1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession...

Sailing the frigate Lydia, Captain Hornblower has orders to track down and sink the Natividad, a Spanish ship with twice his fire power.

In late 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first visit to Italy in thirty years.

His Majesty's Ship Sutherland - of two decks and seventy-four guns - is a humdrum ship of the line.

Zeke and Zack Taylor, motherless six-year-old identical twins, are facing "real" school--first grade--and they are worried.

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad.

As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napol

As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.

April 1803.

The final three stories of Forester's early 19th century British naval hero.

As a young woman, clever, self-reliant Lydia Templeton scandalised society by rejecting Lewis Durrant, the county's most eligible bachelor.

'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, with malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988.