Books written by Nicholas Monsarrat

  • HM Frigate
    HM Frigate

    He chanced to come into the wardroom one day when we were still in dockyard hands, to find a welder carelessly showering sparks near a pile of shavings which might have set a lot of things on fire. He tapped the masked figure on the ...

  • HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour
    HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour

    Watson now interrupted the exchange by saying: 'Let's get this sentry duty settled before we do anything else.' They gathered round him as he stood there with the squad list in his hand. All over the big hall there were similar groups ...

  • The Master Mariner
    The Master Mariner

    To the young sparks on board he was always 'Old Gore' – one foot in the grave (this was the irreverent Trevenen again), and the other on a peeled banana. But as a three-voyage mariner under Cook, there was no mistaking his authority.

  • This Is the Schoolroom
    This Is the Schoolroom

    “It isn't like a young chap of your class to be mixed up in anything. Is it some trouble? ... And a lot of questions – what sort of visitors you had, how long you'd been here – all sorts of things. I tell you straight, Mr Hendren–” ...

  • Something to Hide
    Something to Hide

    An act of kindness has grave consequences in this heart-rending novel about a young girl, pregnant and abandoned, and the man who helps her.

  • The Story Of Esther Costello
    The Story Of Esther Costello

    It told of the ovation which the packed audience accorded to Esther: of the emotional climax as she rose to 'speak' and answer questions; and of the mood of lyrical adoration in which the audience bid her goodnight.

  • The Cruel Sea
    The Cruel Sea

    'Goodnight.' 'I'll see to the goodnight myself,' said Bennett. 'That's my little bit of the job.' He crammed his cap over one eye at a jauntier angle still, and added, with a singular leer: 'It's not so little either, I can guarantee.

  • The Master Mariner
    The Master Mariner

    ... master of the house intoned the Gospel, turned to kneel against their chair-seats with their ramps boldly presented as the Lord's Prayer was repeated, and filed out again after a dutiful chorus of 'Goodnight, sir – goodnight, ma'am.

  • Richer Than All His Tribe
    Richer Than All His Tribe

    Because you're almost always dog-tired, and you have to cope with that stinking office next morning, and I have to cope with the house and the meals, and we don't want any more children anyway ... So it's “Goodnight, darling, ...

  • This Is The Schoolroom
    This Is The Schoolroom

    Did you notice the Daily Worker poster a few days ago, the night after Mosley was knocked senseless by a stone at Liverpool? It said, simply: 'more fascist violence' ... I'll vote the right way, and I'll help men that I think are on the ...

  • This Is The Schoolroom
    This Is The Schoolroom

    Charles wanted to go over and fight him, but he'd got into a fit of blinking and couldn't see properly. ... and backed into the Pitt again: two top hats appeared suddenly under the nearest lamp, surging round Rhys-Evans: and the rest of ...

  • GREAT Sea Stories: The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat ; The Ship, C.S. Forester ; Dive in the Sun, Douglas Reeman

    GREAT Sea Stories: The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat ; The Ship, C.S. Forester ; Dive in the Sun, Douglas Reeman

  • Something To Hide
    Something To Hide

    'Do not give way to despair,' said Doctor Popski – and Carter wondered where Popski could possibly have heard, or read, or been taught that odd-sounding sentence. 'They will believe you. I am sure of it.' 'They won't,' said Carter in a ...

  • The Ship that Died of Shame
    The Ship that Died of Shame

    ... as fresh shooting was heard from the direction of the town, followed by a pall of smoke from a burning building. But one crane, doubtless manned by a determined – or deaf – individualist, was still working methodically; ...

  • Something To Hide
    Something To Hide

    An act of kindness has grave consequences in this heart-rending novel about a young girl, pregnant and abandoned, and the man who helps her.

  • The Cruel Sea
    The Cruel Sea

    It covers the battle of the Atlantic and the people who fought it - their domestic triumphs, tragedies, worries and ambitions.The film was a smash hit when released and enjoys undiminished popularity, along with the book.

  • The Tribe That Lost Its Head
    The Tribe That Lost Its Head

    Five hundred miles off southwest Africa lies the island of Pharamaul.

  • The Pillow Fight
    The Pillow Fight

    Passion, conflict and infidelity in this gripping tale of two people and their marriage.

  • Smith and Jones
    Smith and Jones

    Within the precarious conditions of the Cold War, diplomats Smith and Jones are not to be trusted.

  • The White Rajah
    The White Rajah

    The breathtaking island of Makassang, in the Java Sea, is the setting for this tremendous historical novel.