author
Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
1876–1959
A hugely prolific writer of boys' adventure fiction, he filled his stories with sea voyages, military action, daring rescues, and the practical detail of someone who knew Portsmouth and the naval world well. His books helped shape a generation of early 20th-century adventure reading.
48 Audiobooks
Sea Scouts up-Channel
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Salving of the "Fusi Yama": A Post-War Story of the Sea
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Secret Battleplane
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Sea Scouts of the Kestrel The story of a cruise of adventure & pluck in a small yacht on the English Channel
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Dispatch-Riders: The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Quest of the 'Golden Hope': A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Nameless Island: A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Winning His Wings: A Story of the R.A.F.
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A Lively Bit of the Front: A Tale of the New Zealand Rifles on the Western Front
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Third Officer: A Present-day Pirate Story
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Pirate Submarine
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Young Cavalier: A Story of the Civil Wars
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Under King Henry's Banners: A story of the days of Agincourt
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
With Beatty off Jutland: A Romance of the Great Sea Fight
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge, April 1918
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Under the White Ensign: A Naval Story of the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Treasure of the "San Philipo"
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Scouts of Seal Island
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A Lad of Grit: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Fritz Strafers: A Story of the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A Sub and a Submarine: The Story of H.M. Submarine R19 in the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
To the Fore with the Tanks!
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Submarine Hunters: A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
De Koning der Zee
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Stolen Cruiser
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Sea Monarch
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
'Midst Arctic Perils: A Thrilling Story of Adventure in the Polar Regions
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Fight for Constantinople: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Dreadnought of the Air
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Wireless Officer
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Airship "Golden Hind"
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Mystery Ship: A Story of the 'Q' Ships During the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Sea Scouts Abroad: Further Adventures of the "Olivette"
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Captured at Tripoli: A Tale of Adventure
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Winning of the Golden Spurs
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S.: A Story of the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Sea Scouts All: How the "Olivette" was won
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Sinclair's luck : A story of adventure in East Africa
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Clipped Wings
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Three short stories from "The Captain" volume XXVII How Dymock Came to Derry; Jack Devereux's Scoop; The Powder Hulk
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A Sub. of the R.N.R.: A Story of the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Rival Submarines
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A Watch-dog of the North Sea: A Naval Story of the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The boys of the "Puffin" : A Sea Scout yarn
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
'Gainst the might of Spain : A story of the days of the great Armada
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
About the author
Born in Portsmouth in 1876, Percy Francis Westerman became one of the best-known English writers of adventure stories for young readers. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, and his background in a naval city clearly fed into the world of his fiction.
Westerman wrote with remarkable energy and consistency, producing a large body of children's literature over many decades. His best-known books are adventure tales with strong military and naval themes, often mixing action, patriotism, technical know-how, and fast-moving plots.
He died on February 22, 1959. Although he is less widely read today than he once was, he remains an important name in classic boys' fiction, especially for readers interested in maritime adventure and early 20th-century popular storytelling.