A Ship of the Line Brian Jacques if men have faith

if men have faith

for de Montfort - or for themselves

And wily Odysseus

And for some

from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award

A Ship of the Line Brian Jacques if men have faithMay, 1810 and thirty nine year old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy four gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two decker in the Navy' and a crew shortage means he must recruit two hundred and fifty landlubbers, Hornblower knows that by the time Sutherland and her squadron reach the blockaded Catalonian coast every seaman will do his duty. But with daring raids against the