Andrew Wareham Books in Order

Tom Andrews escapes the hangman, joins a privateering ship, and makes illicit money in the Revolutionary Atlantic. Betrayal sends him home to industrial England, where fortune may buy a future.

The next stage of the Andrews and Star rise brings children, marriages, and the hunger for status. Wealth buys choices, but birth still shapes how others judge them.

Frederick Harris becomes more deeply bound to the Navy and the imperial world it serves. Success brings pride, but also obligations that reach far beyond one ship.

Change sweeps through industry and politics, but old class habits remain stubborn. The family saga follows people trying to adapt without losing the power they have built.

Tom Andrews and Joseph Star return to England with money and sharp ambitions. Industrial Lancashire offers fortunes, but old society does not welcome new men without making them pay.

The Andrews and Star families work to preserve the position they have fought to win. Wealth, land, and family discipline become tools against a society waiting for them to stumble.

Frederick Harris’s naval life carries him between sea service and difficult landward entanglements. Duty, patronage, and ambition keep pressing him into work he never entirely sought.

Second son Frederick Harris takes to the sea for lack of better prospects, not love of ships. The French Revolutionary War soon gives him promotion, danger, and unwanted momentum.

Frederick Harris faces another foreign campaign shaped by imperial reach and local resistance. The title points toward a harsh frontier where British confidence meets harder realities.

The old social order resists the industrial world rising around it. The Andrews and Star families must judge when to challenge tradition and when to profit quietly from it.

Privilege brings comfort and new kinds of pain for the rising families. Estates, alliances, and reputation test whether money can protect the people who inherit it.

Virtue has a cost in Wareham’s industrial Britain. Family duty, public morality, and private interest all collide as the Andrews and Star dynasties keep consolidating power.

The Andrews and Star families continue their climb through money, marriage, and public respectability. Virtue is useful in society, but Wareham’s industrial world always asks who can afford it.

Ned Hawkins tries to turn survival in Papua into something that feels like home. Work, love, and colonial tension make belonging harder than simply staying alive.

Naive Dick Burke is trapped in a humiliating marriage and flees to America as the Civil War approaches. The Union cause may give him the hard education England denied him.

Dick Burke’s American war and personal reinvention continue through confusion, danger, and hard lessons. The sheltered young man must decide what courage and independence really require.

Frederick Harris’s naval career offers the old promises of fortune and glory, though neither comes cleanly. Orders, enemies, and opportunity keep dragging the reluctant sailor forward.

Ned Hawkins flees English slum poverty and ends up in Papua, where danger and opportunity live side by side. He prospers, finds love, and senses trouble gathering around his new life.

Septimus Pearce’s soldiering carries him into the violence and politics of India. Local rulers, British ambition, and his own difficult nature make every advance uncertain.

Frederick Harris moves through a world where trade, plantation wealth, and naval power are closely linked. Sweet profits carry bitter risks for officers, merchants, and families alike.

Frederick Harris proves useful in the Navy’s less glamorous work, where odd tasks can still make or break a career. Competence, not enthusiasm, keeps him moving upward.

Spoiled Septimus Pearce is forced into the Army to protect his family’s name. Campaigning gives him discipline and danger, but not necessarily a better character.

Respectability creates its own temptations for the rising families. As wealth grows, moral display, private appetite, and social ambition make virtue less simple than it looks.

The families find that public virtue can bring rewards, but never without strings. Industrial money, family calculation, and social acceptance continue to shape the next generation.

Frederick Harris’s naval and business affairs crowd together in another demanding season. Duty, money, family, and command leave little room for the quiet life he might have preferred.

Dick Burke survives war only to face the uneasy aftermath. Peace promises safety, but the choices made in America and England still shape what sort of man he can become.

Septimus Pearce faces a campaign where hunger and disease matter as much as bullets. His army life keeps testing whether courage can overcome character, climate, and bad decisions.

Frederick Harris is drawn far from home as naval service opens another foreign station. Strange waters, uncertain orders, and the pull of fortune test his reluctant commitment to the sea.

Septimus Pearce continues his military career through danger, bad judgment, and the consequences of his own nature. War gives him chances to shine, but also chances to ruin himself.

Sold as a child and later driven into the Army, Harry finds danger and possible salvation in uniform. Africa’s Slave Coast, smuggling, betrayal, and soldiering shape his hard road upward.

Septimus Pearce is pulled into Spanish intrigues and military hazards where force alone is not enough. Survival depends on nerve, cunning, and knowing when honour is only a word.

Frederick Harris receives orders that ask more of him than obedience. The Navy’s needs, his own judgment, and the promise of reward collide in another hard stretch of service.

As the Victorian age begins, the Andrews and Star families face new versions of old problems. Hunger, unrest, crowded cities, and disease test wealth that cannot buy complete safety.

Anglo-American pilot Tommy Stark joins the young Royal Flying Corps as the Great War approaches. Training, romance, and early aircraft give way to combat over France.

Tommy Stark’s Royal Flying Corps career grows more dangerous as the Great War develops. New machines, uncertain tactics, and love for Grace compete with the daily risk of flying over France.

Septimus Pearce reaches the end of a hard military road shaped by privilege, violence, and stubborn character. The question is whether war has changed him, or merely given him better habits.

Victory in the Great War comes at a cost that makes triumph difficult to name. Tommy Stark and those who survive must face what service, love, and loss have left behind.

Billy Bacon kills to escape abuse, runs to the Army, and finds rough safety in a battalion bound for India. Soldiering teaches him discipline, survival, and the first steps toward command.

Tommy Stark faces a war in the air that has become more organized and more lethal. Observation, artillery spotting, and enemy aircraft turn courage into a daily calculation.

Summer brings no relief for Tommy Stark and the men around him. The fighting air force is changing, and every improvement in machines and tactics carries a new cost in lives.

Frederick Harris faces another seagoing test in waters where promotion and prize money come at a price. Duty keeps pushing him into danger, no matter how reluctant a mariner he remains.

Frederick Harris wins something that looks like success but feels incomplete. The sea offers prize money and reputation, while duty makes every gain depend on the next dangerous order.

The air war stops feeling like a gentleman’s adventure as casualties mount. Tommy Stark must grow into the work fast, while the Royal Flying Corps learns professionalism the hardest way.

The Barbary coast draws Frederick Harris into a world of raiders, diplomacy, and naval pressure. His command must balance force and caution in waters where mistakes are expensive.

Sam’s control of the gin trade expands, but success makes enemies and hardens habits. Profit, love, class, and violence collide as he pushes beyond what ordinary law can tolerate.

Ned Hawkins’s life in Papua reaches another turning point as he searches for stability in a dangerous land. Love, work, and colonial unrest test the home he has tried to build.

Billy Bacon returns to overseas soldiering in the Caribbean world of forts, ships, and slave regiments. Promotion brings opportunity, but the Spanish Main is no place for careless ambition.

Frederick Harris reaches a late stage in the career that duty forced upon him. Naval service, fortune, family, and reputation come together as he measures what his destiny has cost.

Magnus Campbell’s East Asian posting draws him into Shanghai’s ambitions and the Navy’s imperial work. New dangers and temptations follow as China’s unrest gives him room to make his name.

After a scandal with an admiral’s daughter, Lord Magnus Campbell is sent to Hong Kong in disgrace. The posting may redeem him, unless China’s chaos and his own appetites ruin him first.

After Jacobite raiders leave his family facing starvation, young Sam learns how easily violence can become useful. Illegal gin offers money, but power in that trade belongs to ruthless men.

Fabius Verstappen flees debt and becomes Gentleman Jim, a bare-knuckle fighter with a gentleman’s manners and a runaway’s desperation. A wealthy marquess then offers him a risky road back to rank.

Micah Slater escapes a harsh father and a poor Northamptonshire village as England moves toward civil war. The army offers him a path upward, but that path is already soaked in blood.

Lord Magnus Campbell’s naval career carries him deeper into China’s unrest and imperial rivalries. Rumour, diplomacy, and violence mix as he tries to protect British interests and his own future.

Sam’s rise through the illegal gin trade brings money and power, but rewards in his world never arrive cleanly. Old violence, rivals, and respectability all demand payment.

Orphaned Giles Jackson rejects the narrow future offered to him and slips into a life at sea. A privateer turning pirate shows him a wider, rougher world he is eager to exploit.

Magnus Campbell faces another crisis in China, where great-power ambition and local turmoil leave little room for caution. His luck, command instincts, and reputation are tested far from home.

The storm Thomas Stark has long expected breaks across Europe. As war begins, RAF habits, new aircraft, and old rivalries collide with the realities of fighting a modern enemy.

Thomas Stark, son of a Great War flying ace, brings hard lessons from Spain into a reluctant RAF. With another war approaching, he trains pilots while senior men resist what experience has taught him.

Fabius Verstappen’s bargain for wealth and position begins to reshape his life. Marriage, family expectation, and his prizefighting past make his move into society anything but smooth.

Billy Bacon’s soldiering carries him into the armies and politics of John Company. Experience, discipline, and hard-won rank are tested again in a world where disease and ambition can be as deadly as battle.

As the Great War deepens, early hopes give way to machinery, attrition, and political compromise. The survivors must decide how to keep fighting when every old certainty has failed.

Four young men leave naval training just before the old world breaks apart. When war comes in August 1914, their different postings force them to learn quickly on land and sea.

Giles Jackson’s privateering life carries him deeper into foreign waters and uneasy loyalties. Opportunity is everywhere, but every port and every prize brings new risks for a man making his own rules.

Thomas Stark stands on the southern coast in 1940 as the Battle of Britain gathers pace. Exhausted pilots, RAF politics, and the threat of invasion leave no room for comforting illusions.

Micah Slater becomes known as the Red Man as the English Civil War spreads. Talent in battle offers advancement, but each success makes him more visible, more useful, and more feared.

Fabius Verstappen’s new position brings fresh duties, money problems, and social hazards. The former Gentleman Jim must learn that rank can be as bruising as the prize ring.

Fabius Verstappen’s place among rank and money grows more secure, but never simple. Family duty, social judgment, and his past as Gentleman Jim keep shaping his choices.

The first winter of the Great War brings mud, cold, and the end of easy confidence. The young officers and soldiers must adapt as the conflict becomes longer, harsher, and less comprehensible.

Micah Slater is sent to the Marcher Counties as the Civil War nears its exhausted close. Small actions, local loyalties, and family influence shape his final push toward peace and reward.

Micah Slater recovers from wounds and finds a fragile chance at love, only for violence to pull him back into war. Grief hardens the Red Man as he raises horse for Parliament.

After Jutland and the Somme, the young men of 1914 are older, promoted, and burdened with command. Survival means obeying bad orders while trying not to waste the lives entrusted to them.

Thomas Stark returns to action in a war that has already burned through too many pilots and certainties. Command now means fighting the enemy and the habits of his own side.

Jemmy Dawes is sent to sea from Charles I’s Southampton and soon reaches the Caribbean. There he learns that peace in Europe does not prevent private war beyond the line.

Peter Naseby’s naval career is wrecked when his ship runs down an admiral, so he volunteers for blimp duty. Hunting submarines under hydrogen proves obscure, dangerous, and strangely useful.

The Great War has stripped away easy patriotism, leaving the survivors to fight through a conflict that keeps changing shape. On land and sea, duty now means endurance more than glory.

Nick Turnhouse continues his rapid rise from farmhand to naval officer, learning how much he still needs from older seamen and patrons. Promotion, prize money, and unrest below decks make command far more complicated.

Dorset farmhand Nick Turnhouse flees home with almost nothing and is tricked into naval service. At sea he discovers strength, brains, and a dangerous chance to rise far beyond the life planned for him.

Fabius enjoys domestic security until loans, speculation, and the Canal Bubble make society turn on him. Exile to his estates reveals that money-making may suit him better than politics.

Giles Jackson returns home knighted, married, and bored. Government pressure and blackmail send him abroad again, where service to country and service to his own purse overlap.

Bloody Nick takes an experimental heavy frigate to the Mediterranean after the Battle of the Nile. The ship sails badly, the prizes tempt him, and too much risk could ruin everything.

The Andrews family faces disaster and recovery as the 1840s open a world of steam, empire, and stricter public morality. The old Hanoverian age fades, but old problems remain.

In the early 1980s, English teacher James Jones is hired to train police in newly independent Peyenjee. The South Pacific state needs help, but nothing is as expected.

By 1917, the war is grinding toward either collapse or rescue. Sturton faces the Zeebrugge attack at sea, while Baker returns to the trenches as Russia falters and America’s arrival becomes Britain’s great hope.

In 1857 India, Robert Meiklejohn enters the crisis that will end Company rule. A country merchant’s son, he serves as a soldier while trying to understand the world that made him.

A Fenland squire with five sons cannot provide for them all, so the brothers are scattered to church, sea, militia, and India. Distance offers opportunity, danger, and family consequences.

The Great War nears its exhausted end as Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Russia break under strain. Baker and Sturton remain in the line as victory finally becomes possible.

Nick Turnhouse returns from convoy duty to find his Caribbean station changed and his old patron gone. Sent to escort valuable ships home, he must face French intelligence and his own inexperience as a young captain.

Nick Turnhouse rides his reputation as Bloody Nick to Gibraltar, where new missions and a useful patron await. A powerful ship, a tall lady, and fresh risks complicate his rise.

Captain Jemmy Dawes wants enough money for a respectable life, but buccaneer command depends on success. Spanish, French, Dutch, and English targets all tempt him before peace returns.

Nick Turnhouse’s knowledge of the Bight of Benin makes him valuable to the Admiralty and dangerous to himself. Surviving feverish waters once is luck, twice makes him an expert.

The Andrews and Star families move deeper into the age of empire, industry, and Victorian confidence. Their wealth gives them reach, but history keeps testing the foundations of their power.

After surviving Delhi, Robert Meiklejohn tries England and finds it alien. Ceylon, Calcutta, and the new Raj draw him back toward a life between commerce and government.

Britain needs ships and Denmark has them, but taking a neutral fleet demands a sacrifice of honour. Nick Turnhouse must help make perfidy useful before France can benefit.

With the Peace of Amiens over, Sir Nicholas Turnhouse returns to Hawke and sails for the Indian Ocean. Home happiness pulls one way, prize money and duty pull another.

Rested after burnout, Thomas Stark is ordered to build a Beaufighter Wing at Port Moresby. His knowledge of Papua and New Guinea may finally make him useful again.

Thomas Stark reaches Singapore after Syria and Australia, only to find complacent commanders and inadequate aircraft. He sees the coming Japanese attack clearly, but cannot make others act.

The Fairfield brothers try to recover from the split that sent them across the world. Antigua, Calcutta, dangerous hills, and a strict Fenland rectory test what family loyalty still means.

Nick Turnhouse is sent from Bombay to alarm Spanish possessions across the Pacific, but his stores run short before the voyage begins. Capturing food may matter as much as victory.

Nick Turnhouse remains in a chaotic Mediterranean, where French defeats, Ottoman decline, Spanish confusion, and Barbary rovers create rich opportunities. Luck helps, but taking too many chances has consequences.

Fabius, now Viscount Oakham, must leave his adventuring days behind and choose a future. Coal, iron, steam, family risk, and changing Britain all press for his attention.

Lord Oakham is rich and independent, but his children face a changing country and strict conventions. Britain edges toward unrest while the family tries to shape freer futures.

The Mediterranean is too large and too troubled for the fleet assigned to it. Nick Turnhouse becomes a naval fireman, sent from one crisis to another as Spain and piracy burn.

The Navy has submarines and little idea how to use them. Gilbert Maltravers takes an E Class boat to the Mediterranean as 1914 turns humiliating defeats into urgent need.

Lieutenant Gilbert Maltravers has a safe battleship future, but boredom drives him toward the new submarine service. The old Navy disapproves, which only makes the underhand invention more tempting.

Sir Nicholas Turnhouse is now a senior captain expected to think beyond blind obedience. Spain’s crisis gives him a Mediterranean mission where British interests and local factions rarely align.

Nick Turnhouse’s later command places him in the powerful razee Saturn as war in the Mediterranean intensifies. Reputation, prize money, and the Captain’s List all press on his choices.

After Waterloo, Captain Nathaniel Perry gains a fortune and a title from families that once rejected him. Neither trade nor aristocracy fully claims him, so he must build his own place.

Now Lord Palfrey, Nathaniel Perry discovers his estate has been drained rather than improved. To secure his family’s future, he must make the land work in a changing England.

Thomas Stark faces the late stages of his war with experience, anger, and little patience for incompetence. The final campaign asks what survival and command have left of him.

The Pinchbeck Peer saga continues as Lord Oakham and his family confront another turn in Britain’s social and industrial changes. Wealth helps, but convention still has teeth.

General Griffin’s sons welcome war as a brief escape from Oxford and routine. Crossing with the first British Expeditionary Force, they meet confusion in Belgium instead of easy glory.

From Aden to Ireland, submarines and small ships undermine the certainties of the old Navy. Gilbert Maltravers fights enemies abroad and assumptions at home in a changing war.

In 1850, China descends toward Taiping rebellion while foreign traders turn muddy Shanghai into a treaty-port prize. Commerce, opium, religion, and imperial pressure all arrive together.

September and October 1914 bring Ypres, desperate armies, and the failure of every tidy plan. The Griffin sons fight as the small British Army bleeds away its old professionalism.

As George III declines and postwar Britain stirs, Lord Palfrey pushes modern ideas onto old Dorset fields. His tenants resist, and the land proves less settled than it looks.

The war of movement ends in a trench line from Switzerland to the North Sea. The Griffin and Redwood families struggle to understand a new kind of civilization and war.

Post Captain Sir Nicholas Turnhouse, commanding Saturn, eyes promotion while supporting British operations in Spain. Destroying French power may be the only aid he can truly offer.

As the war at sea wanes, Nick Turnhouse faces halfpay, the American conflict, Napoleon’s return, and one final dangerous blockade. Peace proves almost as uncertain as war.

High wheat prices and low wages make landowners powerful and England uneasy. Nathaniel Perry sees that agriculture’s golden age may collapse unless he looks beyond the estate.

In 1915, armies adapt to trench warfare while the air war begins inventing itself. The Griffin brothers and Redwood family find the conflict settling into deeper cruelty.

In the mid-1850s, Shanghai expands while China holds its breath between convulsions. George Mayhew works to build his hong, secure his fortune, and prepare for wars certain to return.

Jeremy Barnham Walker runs to sea after killing an earl’s son in an unlawful duel at fourteen. Service under Bloody Nick makes him an officer, but respectability ashore proves difficult.

As 1915 ends, industry catches up with slaughter and generals prepare the Big Push. Soldiers know the plan will fail, but the stage is set for disaster.

In the mid-1820s, revolutionary fears, Captain Swing unrest, steam power, and rising wheat prices threaten England’s old order. Lord Palfrey wants wealth, stability, and quiet, an unlikely combination.