I’m a couple of weeks late, but here is a rare photograph of a gathering of four naval fiction authors. The occasion was the annual dinner of the Society for Nautical Research on board the restored HMS Warrior in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Left to right: Chris & Lucia Durbin (The Carlisle & Holbrooke series, set in the Seven Years War), Kitty & Alaric Bond (The Fighting Sail series set in the Napoleonic Wars), Jan & Philip K. Allan (the Alexander Clay Napoleonic War series and the Wolves WW2 series) and Antoine Vanner (The Dawlish Chronicles, set in the Victorian era).

It was great getting together, here’s hoping for a repeat in future.