C. S. Forester

April 1803, and the Peace of Amiens is failing as Horatio Hornblower takes a three-master on a vital reconnaissance mission….

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....

In the year 1805, the young and enthusiastic Horatio Hornblower is given his first command as Captain of HMS Atropos....

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

This is the story of a rifleman's resourcefulness in a single-handed war against the forces of Napoleon....

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

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....

In a gripping adventure in the northern waters, Hornblower must use all his skill and experience to prevent a catastrophic war....

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....

Film tie-in originally published as The Good Shepherd. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks....

The London Classics Collection: Stories of the City allows you to step into the heart of London with a curated selection of iconic literary works that explore the soul of one of the world's most fascinating cities. Whether it's the eerie streets of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

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....

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

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....

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....

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

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

Few authors are as closely associated with sea stories as C. S. Forester, creator of Horatio Hornblower. In this rare venture into the short-story genre, a lawyer thinks he has formulated the perfect way to dispose of a body, but it backfires in an amusing, ironic fashion....