X A tale to delight fans of
Patrick O’Brian,
Bernard Cornwell and
C.S. Forester
X The first historical fiction
to really explore naval war
of the period from the
French perspective
X First of a series of novels to feature
Jersey-born sailor, Jean Cotterell
THE
ANTIGALLICAN
TOM BOWLING
Captain Jean Cotterell, sole survivor of his savage, radical political theories. Separated
foundered fishing vessel is rescued by a French from the French fleet in the Western Approaches
frigate – The Hortense – off the Grand Banks of she is intercepted by two British frigates and
Nova Scotia in May 1794. The Hortense is part battle is joined...
of Republican Admiral Jan Van Stabel’s great
The Antigallican is the first in a series of
fleet of over 100 ships bringing corn to France,
seafaring novels set at the end of the eighteenth
and in a move to alter the whole course of the
century, in Britain, in the Channel Islands and
war, Lord Howe’s Channel Fleet is off Brest,
in Revolutionary France. In Jean Cotterell we
hoping to intercept them.
find a character that bears comparison with
Life on The Hortense is like France under the Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe, in a narrative that
Terror; chaotic, ungovernable, obsessed with will delight fans of Patrick O’Brian.
Tom Bowling is a Londoner born into a
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seafaring family in the Neckinger, a part of
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Bermondsey allegedly named after the Devil’s
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Neckinger or noose worn by pirates executed
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there. He is the author of the Pocket Essential
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Pirates and Privateers and is currently
working on the second book featuring Jean
Cotterell, A Ship Aground.
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