Sam Grant

British author, who started working life, as a young seafarer, with pre- sea training. Atlantic Hijack, ( 2015), a first novel influenced by carrer experience. Author returns to theme with - River Escape, in 2018. A third maritime novel has been published - "Chilling Encounter," by Sam Grant. June 20th, 2022. Point of interest. A second draft screen script is in preparation by author in 2025.

Latest novel - Sea, Sand and Katrina... by Sam Grant. Amazon listed. Most popular on author's Amazon list.

A new collection of short stories and verse - Short Story, Verse, Commentary by Colin H Coles has been published - May 2023.

Ship description relates to vessels served aboard. Cargo/ cargo passenger liners, ore carriers and oil tankers. Fictional characters and storyline. Part, sea life, definition for author. Ten years sea service, to Second Mate's, led to another occupational change, to Royal Mail, and thirty year employ.

Second novel, romantic thriller, Dancing on the Beach by Sam Grant, has a resonance with beach lifestyle, for author who enjoyed student holiday work as a deck chair attendant in Tor Bay, after departure from sea career.

A Second edition, on Amazon, has been published in 2023.

His science fiction novels, Galactic Mission one and Two, follow

A prolific enterer of poetry competition. A number of poems chosen published in other editors anthologies led to author's own publication, with commentary - Poems with themed notes ( first published in 2016) Amazon.

Certain poems, relate to characters and situations in author's novels. Sea Poems/ aliens and relationships figure in an eclectic reach of subject matter.

Mists of Time - part poems/ part short stories available through Amazon

Author, has a play version of - Persuasion's Price. ( Amazon published September 10th, 2021.) A third maritime novel follows, Mike Peter's. Now, as Staff Captain, of merchant vessel Albany Contessa. Part of Blue Circle Lne fleet - a fictional company, created for purpose of novels. Chilling Encounter. Stand alone novel, which picks up on Mike Peters adventurous sea career. A passenger cargo liner is on passage to Lagos,Nigeria, with a part cargo of gold ingots. Set in soviet era of cold war.

Best wishes, to everyone going forward into 2025

Colin (Sam Grant)

(an author name adopted by Colin Coles, firstly, in 1990)