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Quarterdeck Summer 2019 Quarterdeck MARITIME LITERATURE & ART REVIEW SUMMER 2019 Compliments of McBooks Press Alexander Kent “The Bolitho series may sail on forever and that’s just fine.” – Kirkus Reviews McBOOKS press THE DESTINATION FOR NAUTICAL FICTION www.mcbooks.com Quarterdeck MARITIME LITERATURE & ART REVIEW T S C 7 Quarterdeck is published quarterly by HMS Agamemnon Tall Ships Communications 6952 Cypress Bay Drive Photo by Malcolm Darch. Kalamazoo, MI 49009 269-372-4673 EDITOR & PUBLISHER George D. Jepson Contents [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITOR S 2019 Amelia A. Yeoman CONTRIBUTORS Roy and Lesley Adkins, Michael Aye, Chris Durbin, Geoffrey Huband, Paul Garnett, INTERVIEW DEPARTMENTS Seth Hunter, Alex Skutt, Julian Stockwin, and Kathy Stockwin. 14 ROBIN LLOYD 4 SCUTTLEBUTT The former NBC correspondent McBooks Press turned novelist relates the story 24 BOOK REVIEWS behind his transition to historical Quarterdeck is distributed fiction by McBooks Press, an imprint of 27 MARITIME FICTION Globe Pequot 246 Goose Lane, Suite 200 FEATURE Guilford, CT 06437 MARITIME HISTORY 32 EDITOR 7 MALCOLM DARCH Tom McCarthy MARINE ART Phone: 203-458-4500 Quarterdeck visits the studio of 33 [email protected] England’s master model maker Geoffrey Huband Miniatures www.mcbooks.com COLUMNS 5 By George! 33 Visit Quarterdeck On Facebook Alex Skutt – Founding a safe harbor for nautical fiction ON THE COVER: Detail from “The Gathering Storm, ” an oil-on- 21 AUTHOR’S NOTES canvas painting by English marine artist Thomas Kydd’s Guildford Geoffrey Huband, RSMA. © Geoffrey Huband. by Kathy Stockwin © Tall Ships Communications 3 | QUARTERDECK | SUMMER 2019 SCUTTLEBUTT P. T. Deutermann New Book Releases . T. Deutermann’s new World 2019 P War II thriller, Nugget, will be US (United States) launched in October. Lieutenant UK (United Kingdom) Bobby Steele, USN, is a young and TPB (Trade Paperback) eager naval aviator – a “Nugget,” PB (Paperback) HB (Hardback) who needs to learn the ropes and EB (Ebook) complex procedures of taking off NF (Nonfiction) and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking JULY lands him in an unfamiliar bed The Cursed Fortress (USTPB) aboard the USS Oklahoma; later by Chris Durbin that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and Heroes of Annapolis (USTPB) losing his friend, Steele vows to by David Poyer avenge the attack. Flying sea battle AUGUST after battle, he survives the most dangerous air combat in World War II, including Midway, is shot The Traitor of Treasure Island (USTPB) down twice, rescued twice, and eventually leads a daring mission to free by John Drake prisoners from a secluded Japanese POW camp. SEPTEMBER HMS Hazard (UKHB) by David Donachie Nicholas Tolstoy OCTOBER n Patrick O’Brian – A Very Pri- To the Eastern Seas (UKHB) I vate Life, due out in October, the by Julian Stockwin English author’s stepson Nikolai Patrick O’Brian – A Very Private Life Tolstoy draws upon his archives and (UKHB) papers to faithfully capture a life by Nicholas Tolstoy dedicated to the written word. This The Nugget (USHB) long-awaited second volume in the by P. T. Deutermann biography covers the latter part of O’Brian’s life, from the moment of NOVEMBER his arrival at Collioure in the south Overthrow (USHB) of France in 1949, where he wrote by David Poyer all his major works – including the acclaimed Aubrey and Maturin sea Blood Will Out (UKHB) adventures – to his death in 2000. by David Donachie Throughout his career, O’Brian’s The Devil in Paradise (USHB) writing was supplemented by his by James L. Haley translation work, which saw him translate the likes of Simone de Beau- voir and Henri Charriere. Patrick O’Brian – The Making of the Novelist In Northern Seas (USTPB) by Philip Allan 1914 – 1949 by Tolstoy was published in 2004. 4 | QUARTERDECK | SUMMER 2019 By George! ALEX SKUTT Founding a safe harbor for nautical fiction N THE EARLY 1990S Patrick O’Brian was By the 1990s, though, his books were no longer making waves among literary circles on both being published in the US. That changed in 1997, sides of the Atlantic, after Richard Snow, when Skutt contacted Reeman. writing in The New York Times, called his “It struck me as strange that books this good IAubrey and Maturin canon “the best historical nov- were not available,” he said. The late author’s wife, els ever written.” Kimberley, recently recalled the About the same time, Alex eventful connection: Skutt, a bespectacled indepen- “Douglas believed in fate, dent bookshop proprietor in and it was surely fate that Ithaca, New York, “read the brought Alex Skutt and Mc- whole series through and liked Books into our lives at the it.” Smitten by the O’Brian sto- very time when relations with ries about the British Royal Na- G. P. Putnam’s Sons had vy during the Napoleonic Wars, reached a nadir, and by he plunged into the Richard Douglas’s own choice Ree- Bolitho sea adventures by Alex- man and Kent books were no ander Kent “and liked them.” longer in print in the USA. Skutt’s entrepreneurial spirit “Alex came out of no- soon sailed in a new direction. where, introduced himself Selling two book shops – one Photo courtesy of McBooks Press. and McBooks by letter, and called McBooks – and two vid- Alex Skutt offered to buy the rights to a eo outlets, he embarked on a selection of Alexander Kent new venture, founding McBooks Press. novels. The enterprise sparked a nautical fiction resur- “‘I liked his style immediately,’ Douglas said of gence in the United States. Although Patrick this can-do approach. ‘It was a small firm nobody O’Brian’s first Aubrey and Maturin novel, Master had ever heard of, but Alex was committed and and Commander, had been published in 1970, his completely dedicated, and so were his people, and books had been out of print in the United States that was it. I knew we could work together.’ for a decade until W. W. Norton released its trade “For the rest of Douglas’s life, and during his paperback edition in 1990. career as American publisher of Reeman and Kent The Bolitho novels, written by former British novels, Alex never failed us. He brought the Bo- naval officer Douglas Reeman under the pen name litho novels, and more recently some of the Ree- Alexander Kent, started with To Glory We Steer in mans, back to American readers, and he had 1968, and achieved a faithful following in America. Douglas’s deep respect and gratitude. As he has Reeman had also published a series of novels – pri- mine.” marily naval stories – under his own name since The Douglas Reeman signing landed a best-sell- 1958. ing author, who was writing two books a year, † 5 | QUARTERDECK | SUMMER 2019 By George! or The Naval Officer and Mr Midshipman Easy. The list of naval fiction authors continued to expand. Skutt read Ramage by Dudley Pope in a used British edition. The naval defense correspon- dent for the London Evening News wrote carefully researched naval history and was encouraged by C. S. Forester to try his hand at naval fiction. Skutt’s keen eye was crucial to his early success. The Lord Ramage novels added eighteen titles to the catalog. Pope joined Reeman and Kent, Marry- at, David Donachie, James L. Nelson, Dewey Lambdin and John Biggins, among other authors, establishing McBooks as the destination for nauti- cal fiction in America. Never one to rest on his oars, he launched an online retail bookstore, offering a broad selection of maritime fiction available from other publishers, in addition to the McBooks Press editions. In 2005, Skutt acquired the US rights to Eng- lish novelist Julian Stockwin’s Thomas Kydd naval adventures. The author’s vivid portraits of life be- tween England’s “wooden walls” during the the 18th and early 19th centuries further strengthened McBooks’s position as a safe harbor for nautical Photo courtesy of McBooks Press. fiction. Alex Skutt in 2014, with McBooks’s first edition of Julian Stock- Introducing American novelist William West- win’s Pasha, the 15th title in the Thomas Kydd naval adven- tures. brook’s debut novel, The Bermuda Privateer, in 2017, Skutt signaled that the future for sea tales remained bright. Earlier this year, that rosy outlook one under his own name and another as Alexander was affirmed when the Rowman & Littlefield Pub- Kent. The Kent backlist, which Skutt rapidly re- lishing Group, headed by his longtime friend Jed turned to print, immediately drew readers to Mc- Lyons, acquired McBooks Press. Books, establishing the imprint in the marketplace. “I met Alex Skutt 25 years or so ago when he As a lifelong bibliophile and book dealer, used started McBooks and we became his sales and ful- and rare shops were familiar haunts for Skutt. filment partner,” said Lyons, Rowman’s president About the time he founded McBooks Press, he and CEO. “I always admired his quick mind, his chanced upon a set of old editions by Captain sarcastic sense of humor and his integrity. He built Frederick Marryat, who had served in the British the preeminent nautical fiction house in America Royal Navy under Lord Thomas Cochrane – the from scratch. We are thrilled to carry on his lega- famous fighting captain – during the Napoleonic cy.” Wars. McBooks Press, operating as an imprint of Marryat’s yarns charmed Skutt. “It was kind of Globe Pequot, sails forward under editor Tom Mc- like Mark Twain goes to sea,” he said. After acquir- Carthy. n ing the volumes, which had no copyrights, Mc- Books published two new editions: Frank Mildmay – George Jepson 6 | QUARTERDECK | SUMMER 2019 FEATURE Photo by George D.
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