Alexander Fullerton Books in Order
50 books are credited to Alexander Fullerton, published between 1953 and 2020; 2 of them appeared after Alexander Fullerton's death in 2008. The first book is Surface! (1953) and the newest is The White Men Sang (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 50
- Published
- 1953–2020
- Pages on record
- 9,747 in 31 of 50 books
- Reading time
- 162–244 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,747 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 31 of 50 titles with a page count on record.
Submarines and the Royal Navy supply Alexander Fullerton's subject. Fullerton lived from 1924 to 2008, grew up in France after a Suffolk birth, and entered the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth aged thirteen in 1938. He served in the Mediterranean aboard the battleship Queen Elizabeth, then spent the rest of the Second World War underwater, and as gunnery and torpedo officer of HM Submarine Seadog in the Far East he was mentioned in dispatches. The Nicholas Everard Saga, Rosie Ewing, the SBS Trilogy, Russian Battles and the Andy Holt naval thrillers make up his series, across 50 catalogued titles dated 1953 to 2020.
How many Alexander Fullerton books are there?
Alexander Fullerton has 50 books, released between 1953 and 2020. 2 of them were published after Alexander Fullerton's death in 2008. They include 5 series and 29 titles listed outside any series.
Alexander Fullerton Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 50 Alexander Fullerton books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Surface!1953 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/419531761/4
- 2Bury the Past1954 · confirmed 1/41954–1/4
- 3Mantrap1961 · confirmed 1/41961–1/4
- 4The Thunder And The Flame1964 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/419641561/4
- 5Lionheart.1965 · confirmed 1/41965–1/4
- 6The Publisher1970 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/419702321/4
- 7Chief Executive1971 · confirmed 1/41971–1/4
- 8Other Men's Wives1973 · confirmed 1/41973–1/4
- 9Store1973 · confirmed 1/41973–1/4
- 10Old Moke1974 · 217 pages · confirmed 1/419742171/4
- 11Wren Called Smith1974 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/419741561/4
- 12Piper's Leave1974 · 186 pages · confirmed 1/419741861/4
- 13The Escapists1975 · 207 pages · confirmed 1/419752071/4
- 14Soldier from the Sea1975 · confirmed 1/41975–1/4
- 1519763461/4
- 1619773201/4
- 17Yellow Ford1977 · 237 pages · confirmed 1/419772371/4
- 181978–1/4
- 1919792681/4
- 201980–1/4
- 211981–1/4
- 2219832551/4
- 23Regenesis1983 · 608 pages · confirmed 1/419836081/4
- 24The Waiting Game1983 · confirmed 1/41983–1/4
- 2519873141/4
- 2619883081/4
- 2719893521/4
- 28Johnson's Bird1989 · confirmed 1/41989–1/4
- 2919913291/4
- 3019933921/4
- 31Love for an Enemy1993 · 419 pages · confirmed 1/419934191/4
- 32Not Thinking of Death1994 · 410 pages · confirmed 1/419944101/4
- 3319953601/4
- 34Band of Brothers1996 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/419962321/4
- 3519973781/4
- 36FINAL DIVE1998 · confirmed 1/41998–1/4
- 3719994481/4
- 38Wave Cry2000 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/420004321/4
- 39Floating Madhouse2000 · confirmed 1/42000–1/4
- 4020013521/4
- 412001–1/4
- 422002–1/4
- 4320032881/4
- 44Flight to Mons2003 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/420033041/4
- 45Stark Realities2005 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/420053521/4
- 462006–1/4
- 4720063681/4
- 48Submariner2008 · 345 pages · confirmed 1/420083451/4
- 49No Man's Mistress2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 50The White Men Sang2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
Alexander Fullerton series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
Alexander Fullerton books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Rosie Ewing in order
5 booksSBS Trilogy in order
3 booksRussian Battles in order
2 booksStandalone books
29 books29 Alexander Fullerton titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Alexander Fullerton books in order?
You only need to read Alexander Fullerton books in order within each series: the books listed here span 5 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Alexander Fullerton
Start with The Blooding of the Guns (1976), the first Nicholas Everard Saga book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Surface! (1953).
What is the newest Alexander Fullerton book?
The White Men Sang (2020) is the newest Alexander Fullerton book released so far.
Is there a new Alexander Fullerton book coming?
No next Alexander Fullerton book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Alexander Fullerton at a glance
- Died
- Alexander Fullerton died in 2008, according to Wikidata.
- After death
- Books credited to Alexander Fullerton are still being published after Alexander Fullerton's death in 2008; the newest appeared in 2020.
- Release pace
- Alexander Fullerton books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 9,747 pages across the 31 of 50 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Alexander Fullerton books, 14 of 50, were published in the 1970s.
What the Alexander Fullerton books are about
28 of the 50 Alexander Fullerton books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: world war, 1939-1945 is tagged on 11 of 28. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- World War, 1939-1945 11 of 28 books
- War & military 9 of 28 books
- Fiction in English 7 of 28 books
- Great Britain 3 of 28 books
- Naval history 3 of 28 books
- Nick Everard (Fictitious character) 3 of 28 books
- Action & adventure 2 of 28 books
- Great Britain. Special Operations Executive 2 of 28 books
- Historical fiction 2 of 28 books
- History 2 of 28 books
- Naval operations 2 of 28 books
- Submarine 2 of 28 books