A Talent For Trouble: The Dorset Boy Book 1

In the late 18th Century life was cheap and you had fight to survive. Martin Stockley at 12 years old was underfed and undersized as the youngest of nine in a Dorset clay miner's family and was probably doomed to die, worn out and broken at a very young age in the clay mines of Dorset. But he had a sharp mind, had learned to read, write and do his numbers and had a fascination for maps. A stroke of good fortune sees him escape that destiny and be taken on as a Ship's Boy and Under Steward to the Captain in the Royal Navy Frigate the Falcon. What follows is a chronicle of his talent for getting into and out of trouble at Gibraltar, the siege of Toulon and against Barbary pirates. Luck and a lot of Dorset courage sees him at the centre of a series of adventures. Blood, guts, a beautiful Contessa and prize money. What more could a young lad from Dorset ask for?

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• Agent Provocateur: The Dorset Boy Book 3
• In Dangerous Company: The Dorset Boy Book 4
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• Nobody’s Child (Nobody’s Child Series, Book 1)
• The Tempest: The Dorset Boy Book 5
• The Turn of the Tide (Alexander Clay Series Book 6)
• The Distant Ocean (Alexander Clay Series Book 5)
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• Chinese Whispers (The Earl’s Other Son Series, Book 3)