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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    February 2022
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Book List in Order: 15 titles





  • As Sebastian Westland journeys from childhood to the bloody proving ground of men, he loses everything by which he knows himself: his past, his innocence, finally his name. His struggle to survive a war he scarcely comprehends is rendered in the urge...



  • Paul Watkins spent six years as a crewman on a deep-sea fishing boat. This novel tells his story. The coast of New England: beautiful but savage, where storms can whip up out of nowhere, and the wrecks wash up on the beach. James Pfeiffer, a young ...



  • Charlie Halifax, a highly decorated American pilot, is banished to Africa in 1918 after trying to desert, and along with his mechanic Ivan, a former officer in the Russian cavalry, he begins to plan his escape...



  • In The Promise of Light by Paul Watkins, it is 1921, and young Ben Sheridan's Irish-American father mysteriously dies in their small Rhode Island town. Determined to learn the truth about his family's cloudy past, he sets sail for Ireland, and quickl...



  • In this enthralling and sometimes harrowing memoir, the acclaimed author of The Promise of Light gives us a masterly companion to such classics as Brideshead Revisited and A Separate Peace. At the age of seven, Paul Watkins was roughly transplan...



  • “An outstandingly intelligent and significant novel” about greed and environmental devastation from the author of the Booker Prize-nominated Night Over Day Over Night  *Booklist   Logger Noah Mackenzie has a bitter history with the...



  • Although Paul Wedekind has created a new life for himself as a fisherman on the coast of Rhode Island, he is haunted by his violent past. As a patriotic young man, he enlisted in the East German Stasi and was sent to Afghanistan, where he and a fr...






  • An exciting new novel, by the author of The Story of My Disappearance and Archangel.At the turn of World War II, David Halifax is a young American painter who receives a scholarship to come to Paris and work under the tutelage of the mysterious and b...



  • Philip Richards is a man who appears to be everything he isn't. Well dressed, well spoken and successful by any measure, his world is changed overnight when his beautiful wife, Laura, dies unexpectedly. Lost and adrift, he finally decides to take c...



  • One man's quiet life is shattered when he's forced to confront terrifying secrets he'd thought buried high in the Italian Alps The New York Times has called his work "daring and remarkably assured," The Washington Post has dubbed it "shamelessly ...





  • Emily Burel, a PhD, scientist and adventurer who works out of Sydney University, is head hunted by Security Agent Andreas Doratis, for Michael Westlake of the British Museum, and Marie de Becque from Le Musee du Louvre in Paris. De Becque believes sh...



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    Sebastian Westland graduates from the Hitler Youth to the SS in the summer of 1944 and is sent with other teenagers into the Battle of the Bulge, where his unit is wiped out, he participates in the executions of prisoners, and he experiences total di...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul Watkins has published 15 books.

Paul Watkins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Frasco Diary, was published in February 2022.

The first book by Paul Watkins, My Life with Charles Manson, was published in January 1979.

No. Paul Watkins does not write books in series.