The Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 ran for 37,000 miles through 10 stages across the world’s seas and oceans. It was raced in the planet’s fastest and most demanding monohull, the Volvo Open 70, capable of sustaining speeds of well over 30 kno...

What will you do, when it's you or them? This is the dilemma at the heart of The Defector - can Martin Cormac turn his back on his ruthless past as a currency trader, a big city player, and do the right thing? Not when he's looking for answers i...

Risk to Gain is the classic book on the winning team in sailing's 1997-98 Whitbread Race. Long out of print, it's now reproduced for the first time in this text-only, eBook edition. It’s a unique insight into Team EF’s two boats during...

What will you do, when it’s them... or the woman you love? Drug baron Janac has turned to piracy to fund his battle for control of the Australian narcotics trade. When he attacks the MV Shawould on an evil night in the South China Sea, it se...

The young Ben Clayton was one of Britain’s brightest boxing prospects, until the day he slammed a left hook into a fragile chin. Sickened by the consequences he turned away from the ring, found solace in the arms of the beautiful Lucy Kirk an...

Mark Chisnell’s non-fiction has been as applauded as his fiction, and these five essays all pack a typically stylish punch. The first, ‘Fastnet ‘79’ was written for the thirtieth anniversary of that desperate race, and assesses...