C. S. Forester

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain....

C. S. Forester’s gritty psychological thriller, first published in 1926, took crime writing in a new direction, portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous acts, as events spiral out of control....

Wartime radio at its most provocative - that's Words at War! The Office of War Information, in cooperation with The Council on Books in Wartime, brought listeners journalistic accounts of battle....

C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes young readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa....

Horatio Hornblower sails South American waters and comes face to face with a mad revolutionary....

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London...

The second act of the Hornblower saga is a gripping, rip-roaring tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas....

In this, the final Horatio Hornblower adventure, C.S. Forester throws his hero into one of the most challenging missions yet....

Her Majesty's ship Sutherland is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Hornblower....

Now A Major Motion Picture A WWII naval thriller of “high and glittering excitement”(New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way...

Based on meticulously researched historical fact, "Brown on Resolution" marks C.S. Forester's first novel about the British Navy and his subsequent sea-faring novels....

Upon her brother's death missionary Rose Sayer and Charles Allnutt, disreputable skipper of the African Queen, become allies as, marooned in German Central Africa during WWI....

At the Universal Advertising Agency in London a murder is being planned....

Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills....

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad. But the 'Terror of the Mediterranean' becomes Europe's most wanted man....

The Admiral's face was grim as he gave Commodore Hornblower his orders. The situation was critical: mutiny was an infection that could spread through the fleet like the plague....

Having now paid his dues as midshipman, Horatio Hornblower returns as a newly promoted Lieutenant, in the second instalment of C.S. Forester's beloved naval series....

Shaking off this label, a shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy on HMS Justinian....