Linda Wilgus grew up in the Netherlands and lived in Italy, Belgium, and the United States before settling in England. A graduate of the University of Amsterdam, she worked as a bookseller and a knitting pattern designer before becoming a full-time writer. Her short stories have been published in numerous literary magazines. Wilgus shares her home with her husband, three children, and their dog.
[The Page 69 Test: The Sea Child; Q&A with Linda Wilgus]
The Sea Child is Wilgus's debut novel.
At CrimeReads the author tagged "eight cracking reads about smugglers, pirates and mutineers." One title on the list:
S. Thomas Russell, Under Enemy ColorsRead about another entry on the list.
Last but certainly not least, S. Thomas Russell’s Under Enemy Colors is a seafaring tale in the tradition of Hornblower and Jack Aubrey.Set in the late eighteenth century, it’s the story of Charles Saunders Hayden, an ambitious young lieutenant born to an English father and a French mother.
Thanks to lack of connections, Hayden finds himself assigned to HMS Themis, a frigate under the command of the cruel and cowardly Josiah Hart. With a captain as committed to terrorizing his sailors as to avoiding enemy warships, Hayden finds himself caught between his superior and a crew increasingly bent on mutiny.
In a way this is as much a crime novel as an Age of Sail story, as a sizeable portion of the book is devoted to the court martial following the crew’s eventual mutineering. High-paced, full of action and with a dash of romance too, Under Enemy Colors is a first-rate seafaring read.
--Marshal Zeringue
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