Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, a master of the quarterdeck...

The Indian Ocean, 1809. At stake: Britain's commercial lifeline to India and naval supremacy. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and Conquest...

A biography of Lady Anne Barnard.

An extraordinary, passionate and personal journey into Africa’s past. ‘The most enthralling account out of Africa for years.’ Daily Mail. ‘“Livingstone’s Tribe” is excellent…Taylor is an intelligent...

Author Stephen Taylor recounts some of the amazing, surprising and heartwarming episodes from over 30 years spent sharing his life with his family's cats.

Is playing the lottery the stupidest thing a person can possibly do, or is there some redeeming value to throwing your money at state-sponsored games of chance? Author Stephen Taylor, a lifelong non-gambler,...

The year is 1970. Off the Normandy coast a fisherman is killed on board his own small fishing boat. But this is no fishing accident; this is murder, a petty squabble between criminals, this is the grubby...

Heather Moore was just starting to make her way in the world in her chosen profession of archaeology, when love took her unexpectedly; powerful potent love that invaded her very being. It was as though...

The 'Grosvenor' was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa,...

This book introduces the fundamental concepts behind a new form of calculation, "Circlemaths". Being one of the original books written by Dr Taylor the actual techniques ("COT tables" and so forth) are...