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Patrick O'Brian
In this, the first of Patrick O'Brian’s much lauded Aubrey-Maturin novels, discover a vibrant world conjured by a master storyteller, rich with detail and character.
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Fine stuff…[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels. -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
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The final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series in a beautiful new package.
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Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written.
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Back in print and now in hardback, the deeply personal and ingenious literary first novel written under Patrick O'Brian's own name, newly introduced by Nikolai Tolstoy.
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A novel set in wartime in 1812 and featuring Captain Jack Aubrey. Aubrey sets sail across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate that intends to disrupt the…
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To the delight of millions of Patrick O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey-Maturin series, for the first time in paperback.
Henri Charriere
An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas.
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Patrick J O'Brian
Firefighter Paul Clouse is the prime suspect when his wife of six years is brutally murdered on Halloween night. Working to restore the West Baden Springs Hotel as a side…
Finding Nadeau, the man responsible for the plague, could provide a cure to the zombie plague, or get them all killed. Will revenge get the better of Metzger or will…
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Nikolai Tolstoy
To many, Patrick O'Brian was the greatest British novelist of the 20th century. This volume tells the story of O'Brian’s life up to his decision to move to Collioure in…
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Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, a profoundly moving recounting of her mother’s death.
The best historical novels ever written… . On every page Mr. O'Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change, but people…
An intimate portrait of Patrick O'Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.
A collection of startlingly vivid short stories from Patrick O'Brian, author of the highly acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series.
O'Brian’s richly told adventure saga, with its muscular prose, supple dialogue and engaging characters, packs a nice old-school punch. –Publishers Weekly
Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are to be re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new…
Jack Aubrey has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he did not commit. With his friend, an unofficial British intelligence agent, Maturin, he sets out on his…
Whether close to home or far away, there are no safe harbours while Napoleon seeks to dominate the known world.
A historical sea story, featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. Malta is crowded with senior officers waiting for news of what the French are planning. Aubrey and Maturin are in…
Jack Aubrey returns from duties protecting whalers off South America and is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make investments in the City, on the strength of certain information. From…
A glittering adventure set in India at the height of the British Raj. The New York Times compared Patrick O'Brian’s early novel to Kipling’s Kim and called it a gorgeous…
Caesar is a tale of survival, love, and loyalty, by a young O'Brian who was rightly hailed, even at fifteen, as the ‘boy-Thoreau’. The fascinating career of the literary genius…
Napoleon’s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have - at…
This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist - told with insight, empathy and drama by one of the world’s master storytellers.
An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his…
Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and elegantly repackaged.
In Caesar and Hussein, Patrick O'Brian’s two debut novels appear in one volume for the first time, providing a revealing insight into the literary genius behind the Master and Commander…
Britain and America are newly at war, and Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are caught in the very thick of the action.
Loving someone, in a time of war and divided loyalties, can be the greatest risk of all.
From the author of Master and Commander, Post Captain and HMS Surprise, a sea story featuring Jack Aubrey, who is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron…
Napoleon has escaped from Elba - the Hundred Days have begun.
How far will a man go in the name of revenge, honour, love or simple survival?
Can Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew defy the odds, and outmanoeuvre the French, to take two small but vital islands in the Indian Ocean?
On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged…
Entrusted with a secret mission, the perils of the South China Sea await.
The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales.
The fifteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel in which Jack finds himself re-united with the Surprise, but out of touch with his crew
There is a fine line between privateer and pirate, between friend and foe.
The higher one climbs, the further there is to fall.
Set amongst the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of a small seaside village in Catalonia, Patrick O'Brian’s second novel is a poignant story of tumultuous love, complex faith and one…
The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian’s first bestseller in the United States.
O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and The Ionian Mission is another rattling good yarn. -Stephen Vaughan, The Observer
The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language. -J. de Courcy Ireland
The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.
An overwhelming, outstanding novel…! -Irish Times
