Julian Stockwin’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British writer
Known for Kydd
Is Writer 
From United Kingdom 
Type Literature 
Gender male
Birth 1944, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Age: 76 years
Genre:
Adventure novel

Julian Stockwin (born 1944 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England) is an author of historical action-adventure fiction. As well as the Kydd Series he has written two standalone novels The Silk Tree and The Powder of Death.

Biography

Born in 1944, Stockwin soon developed a love for the sea, having an uncle, Tom Clay, who was a seaman in square-rigged ships and had sailed around Cape Horn in the Cutty Sark.

After grammar school, his father sent him to sea-training school at Indefatigable at age 14. He joined the Royal Navy at 15 and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy when his family emigrated. Stockwin served eight years, and was eventually rated petty officer.

Stockwin attended the University of Tasmania to read Far Eastern studies and psychology. He did post-graduate work in cross-cultural psychology. He got involved in the manufacture and design of computers and software development. Returning to the navy and the Royal Navy Reserve, Stockwin was honoured with an MBE and retired as lieutenant commander.

He returned to the United Kingdom in 1990 and started to write in 1996. He currently resides in Ivybridge, Devon.

Works

Thomas Kydd series

# Title Publisher Publication Date
1 Kydd
1793 		Hodder & Stoughton 2001
A wig maker from Guildford, Thomas Kydd finds himself pressed into the service of the Crown as a landsman. His first berth is aboard HMS Duke William, where he befriends Nicholas Renzi. 
2 Artemis
1794 		Hodder & Stoughton 2002
Now berthed in Artemis, Kydd journeys to the Pacific and China. 
3 Seaflower Hodder & Stoughton 2003
Kydd and Renzi are shipped to the Caribbean. There they join the cutter Seaflower. 
4 Mutiny
1797 		Hodder & Stoughton 2004
Mutiny off the Nore finds Kydd with split loyalties – between his duty and his shipmates. 
5 Quarterdeck
1798 		Hodder & Stoughton 2005
After being promoted to Lieutenant after the Nore Mutiny, Thomas Kydd joins Tenacious serving in Canada. 
6 Tenacious
1798 		Hodder & Stoughton 2005
Kydd’s ship Tenacious takes part in the Battle of the Nile. 
7 Command Hodder & Stoughton 2006
Kydd is assigned as Commander of Teazer, patrolling the waters around Malta and the Mediterranean. When peace is declared he resigns his commission and sails to the antipodes as captain of a merchant ship. 
8 The Admiral’s Daughter
1803 		Hodder & Stoughton 2007
War with France resumes. Again in command of Teazer, Kydd has challenges both naval and relational as he encounters an Admiral’s daughter, the sophisticated Persephone Lockwood. 
9 Treachery
(aka The Privateer’s Revenge in the USA)		 Hodder & Stoughton 2008
Kydd is disgraced and leaves naval service. However he takes to the sea again as a privateer. 
10 Invasion Hodder & Stoughton 2009
Exonerated and back in Naval service, Kydd encounters the rocket inventor Robert Fulton. 
11 Victory
1805 		Hodder & Stoughton 2010
Our hero takes part in the build-up to and the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain. 
12 Conquest
1806 		Hodder & Stoughton 2011
Cape Town, a Dutch colony, is to be taken; Kydd joins a joint expedition of land- and sea-based forces. 
13 Betrayal
1806 		Hodder & Stoughton 2012
Kydd travels from South Africa to Buenos Aires to take part in Commodore Popham’s audacious attack. 
14 Caribbee Hodder & Stoughton 2013
The sugar trade, vital to British interests, is threatened. Kydd must respond. 
15 Pasha Hodder & Stoughton 2014
Istanbul and the Dardanelles are the setting for conflict and intrigues. Kydd’s ‘particular friend’ Renzi is right at the heart of things. 
16 Tyger Hodder & Stoughton 2015
Kydd gains command of HMS Tyger at a critical moment in his career. 
17 Inferno
1807 		Hodder & Stoughton 2016
The Danish fleet is the focus of British and French attention; with Napoleon’s forces rapidly approaching Copenhagen diplomacy is vital. 
18 Persephone
1807 		Hodder & Stoughton 2017
Kydd, now a celebrated hero, takes HMS Tyger to Lisbon and meets his old flame Persephone Lockwood. 
19 The Baltic Prize
1808 		Hodder & Stoughton 2017
At short notice Tyger is called to join a newly assembled fleet and sent to the Baltic and the only remaining continental ally to Great Britain, the kingdom of Sweden. Kydd finds he is to serve under Sir James Saumarez, a Vice-Admiral whom he has encountered before. 
20 The Iberian Flame
1808 		Hodder & Stoughton 2018
The Iberian peninsula is in ferment and Bonaparte seeks to carve up Portugal and install his brother Joseph as King of Spain. Renzi is sent to incite opposition to France’s intentions in Spain. Kydd becomes embroiled in support of the British expeditionary force in northwestern Spain. 
21 A Sea of Gold
1809 		Hodder & Stoughton 2018
Back in London after Corunna, Kydd is again the hero. Soon, thrust into the forefront of the action at the insistence of Lord Thomas Cochrane, the Basque Roads are the scene of his next encounter with the French. In addition financial ruin beckons. 
22 To the Eastern Seas
1810 		Hodder & Stoughton 2019
23 Balkan Glory Hodder & Stoughton forthcoming October 2020

Other Historical fiction

  1. The Silk Tree (2014) A fictional account of the bringing silkworm eggs to the Byzantine Empire from China.
  2. The Powder of Death (2016) A fictional account of how gunpowder came to England and its use in cannons.

Non-fiction works

  1. Stockwin’s Maritime Miscellany (2009)

Footnotes

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