fiction Flight Underground (1969) The House in the Waves (1970) Hostage (1978) Non-fiction A very personal war: the story of Cornelius Hawkridge (1971) Mummies: Death and Life in Ancient Egypt with Carol Andrews, Collins for British Museum Publications, 1978, Playing with Water (1987) Three Miles Down (1990), an account of an underwater search using the Mir submersibles. Seven-Tenths: the sea and its thresholds (1992) America's Boy (1998) Vom Meer (2010) Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World (2010) Marked for Death: The First War in the Air (2015) Beethoven's Third Symphony 'The Eroica' (2016) Blackbird: The Story of the Lockheed SR-71 Spy Plane (2017) What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain (2018) Trains, Planes, Ships and Cars: The Golden Age 1900-1941 (2020) References Profile in the Guardian External links James Hamilton-Paterson at Granta.com James Hamilton-Paterson talking about 'Gerontius', ICA, 1989 1941 births Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Living people People educated at The King's School, Canterbury People educated at Windlesham House School Writers from London English male poets