As I mentioned a few years ago, I love Naomi Novik's Temeraire books. Horatio Hornblower with dragons about summarizes the general theme (the lead character is quite Hornblower-like), but of course ...

I just reread Victory of Eagles, one of my favorite books in Naomi Novik's excellent nine-book Temeraire series, and thought I'd briefly blog again about how much I like them. The books are set in ...

Before taking the Renown back to Jamaica for their court martial on charges of mutiny, Hornblower, Kennedy, and Bush convince an insecure and indecisive Lt. Buckland, now acting captain, that it would ...

The action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. At that point in his life, Horatio Hornblower is a penniless, orphaned ...

Still serving aboard the HMS Indefatigable, Horatio Hornblower has been promoted to acting Lieutenant. Neutral Spain has concluded a peace treaty with France and the British now have another enemy to ...

Ioan Gruffudd has revealed that he is keen to film more Hornblower television movies. The Welsh actor played the role of Horatio Hornblower in eight films between 1998 and 2003. "We have only ...