Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stand Before Your God | 1994 | Sam Eastland / Paul Watkins | Buy |
| 2 | The Fellowship of Ghosts | 2004 | Sam Eastland / Paul Watkins | Buy |
| 3 | Midget Submarine Commander: The Life of Godfrey Place VC | 2012 | Sam Eastland / Paul Watkins | Buy |
Paul Watkins has published three non-fiction works alongside his novels. Stand Before Your God, released in 1994, is a memoir about his years at English boarding schools as an American teenager. The book was widely praised for its vivid and often darkly funny account of institutional life in England.
The Fellowship of Ghosts, published in 2004, recounts Watkins’s travels through Scandinavia, tracing the routes of the Vikings and exploring the landscapes that inspired his fiction. Midget Submarine Commander, published in 2012, tells the story of Godfrey Place, who earned the Victoria Cross for a daring midget submarine attack on the German battleship Tirpitz during World War II.