Sketch in page header by Geoffrey Huband.
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Douglas Reeman aboard the Grand Turk off Portsmouth.
(Photo by Kim Reeman)
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Welcome on board the recently revised official website for English author Douglas Reeman, who also writes under the pen name Alexander Kent.
Douglas Reeman has published thirty-six novels under his own name, and has also written twenty-six bestselling historical novels featuring Richard and Adam Bolitho, under the pen name Alexander Kent.
'I am always asked to account for the perennial appeal of the sea story, and its enduring interest for people of so many nationalities and cultures,' says Mr Reeman. 'It would seem that the eternal and sometimes elusive triangle of man, ship and ocean, particularly under the stress of war, produces the best qualities of courage and compassion, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of conflict ... The sea has no understanding of righteous or unjust causes. It is the common enemy, respected by all who serve on it, ignored at their peril.'
The author's love affair with the sea dates to his youth, when he visited HMS Victory in Portsmouth with his grandfather. Although he was born into a family with a history of service in the British army, his eyes were on ships and naval service.
At the age of 15, he joined HMS Ganges, a training school for boy seamen, just as the Second World War was about to begin. Not many months later, he was in the Royal Navy for the duration, shaping the young man who would become a world-reknown author of sea fiction.
 Mr Reeman's new novel, Knife Edge (left), was published in hardcover in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2004 by William Heinemann. It is the fifth title in the Blackwood of the Royal Marines Saga.
His latest Adam Bolitho novel, Man of War - the twenty-sixth in the Bolitho series - was published in the UK on 5 June 2003. The US edition was published in September 2003 by McBooks Press. A new UK mass paperback edition was published in May 2004.
Mr Reeman is presently finishing a new Richard Bolitho novel, entitled Band of Brothers, which is the third midshipman title in the series, written under the pen name Alexander Kent. It is scheduled for publication in mid 2005.
The next Alexander Kent novel will be the fourth Adam Bolitho title, following Man of War. This will precede a new Douglas Reeman story set against the siege of Malta during the Second World War.
This site, which is revised as new content becomes available, provides readers with biographical material, archives of The Bolitho Newsletter, interviews, up-to-date news on publishing dates and other relevant events, an updated photo album, and sources for the author's books.
Please explore and enjoy the coves and inlets of Douglas Reeman's long and distinguished writing career.
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Douglas Reeman and Alexander Kent books are available from ...
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