Tyger by Julian Stockwin (Book 16 in the Thomas Kydd series)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 290 mbOverview: The latest volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring the dashing and debonair naval commander Thomas Kydd. Kydd is offered a new command but that ship is still under construction, so he decides to look up one of […]
The Silk Tree by Julian Stockwin (The first book in the Moments of History series)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 385 mbOverview: Forced to flee Rome from the barbaric rampages of the Ostrogoths, merchant Nicander meets an unlikely ally in the form of Marius, a fierce Roman legionary. Escaping to a new life in Constantinople, the two land […]
The Powder of Death by Julian Stockwin (The second book in the Moments of History series)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 315 mbOverview: An envoy to China meets an English scholar in Oxford in the mid-thirteenth century to share a deadly secret. They vow that the knowledge of gunpowder must die with them as the consequences otherwise are […]
The Baltic Prize by Julian Stockwin (Book 19 in the Thomas Kydd series)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 310 mbOverview: 1808. Parted from his new bride, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is called away to join the Northern Expedition to Sweden, now Britain’s only ally in the Baltic. Following the sudden declaration of war by Russia and with the […]
Persephone by Julian Stockwin (Book 18 in the Thomas Kydd series)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 300 mbOverview: November 1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd must sail to Lisbon to aid the Portuguese Royal Family’s evacuation in the face of Napoleon’s ruthless advance through Iberia. In the chaos of the threatened city an old passion is reawakened when he […]