David Davies
Bedfordshire, UK
Fiction: Gentleman Captain, The Mountain of Gold, The Blast That Tears The Skies, The Lion of Midnight, The Battle of All The Ages (collectively, 'The Journals of Matthew Quinton')
Non-fiction: Gentlemen and Tarpaulins: The Officers and Men of the Restoration Navy (1991); Pepys's Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89 (2008; winner of the Samuel Pepys Prize); Blood of Kings: the Stuarts, the Ruthvens and the Gowrie Conspiracy (2010); Britannia's Dragon: A Naval History of Wales (2013).
Former chairman, the Naval Dockyards Society; former Vice-President, the Navy Records Society; member of the Council of the Society for Nautical Research Fellow of the Royal Historical Society