Andrew Wareham Books in Order

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.