Scott Dodgson

04/08/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRG8KWH6

03/18/2026

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GRG8KWH6 The sea teaches patience, humility, and direction. A Sailor’s Bearing collects stories of passages, distant ports, long watches, and the quiet moments that shape a sailor’s life. With the voice of an experienced mariner, Scott Dodgson reflects on voyaging under sail and the enduring pull of the horizon.

Scott Dodgson has done us a service in restoring the power of the microcosm that a boat on the high seas meant to Stevenson, Conrad, Melville, and Patrick O’Brian. Here you will find memorable characters for whom fate has guaranteed that danger is always just inches away and redemption seemingly out of reach. Drug runners, desperate lovers, political renegades, and the occasional saint: all their stories come through as impressively vivid, even masterful. —David Rigsbee

The sea teaches patience, humility, and direction. A Sailor’s Bearing collects stories of passages, distant ports, long watches, and the quiet moments that shape a sailor’s life. With the voice of an experienced mariner, Scott Dodgson reflects on voyaging under sail and the enduring pull of the ...

03/01/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GK6HC79Q

02/28/2026

Swipe dismantles the consolations of crime fiction by exposing wrongdoing not as aberration but as atmosphere. Dodgson refuses the cheap pleasure of revelation, insisting instead that the true suspense lies in whether we are willing to recognize the systems we inhabit — and the quiet complicity that sustains them.

02/28/2026

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GK2V1RV2
Swipe dismantles the consolations of crime fiction by exposing wrongdoing not as aberration but as atmosphere. Dodgson refuses the cheap pleasure of revelation, insisting instead that the true suspense lies in whether we are willing to recognize the systems we inhabit — and the quiet complicity that sustains them.
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Swipe: The Perfect Crime

12/12/2025

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G517MFBW
The reviews are in: "I've listened and read nearly all of Scott's sailing stories this memoir is impossible to put down!" Vicky from London

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11/19/2025

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11/19/2025

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