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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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Part Number: FIC6140

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ISBN: 9780006499305

Publisher: Harper Collins

Author(s): Patrick O'Brian

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Format: Paperback

Another splendid naval novel in the series starring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. Aubrey, a lion in action but somewhat at sea on land, sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise. He soon realises he is out of touch with the mood of his ship. To his astonishment he finds he does not know what the foremost hands or even officers are thinking. They know, as he does not, that the Surprise has a stranger on board : but unknown to all the stranger is as potentially dangerous as a light in the powder magazione. A fierce battle onj a Pacific island follows. Good writing and fine story-telling. Pb. 350pp.

About Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O’Brian, one of our greatest contemporary novelists, is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. His first novel, ‘Testimonies’, and his ‘Collected Short Stories’ have recently been republished by HarperCollins. He has translated many works from French into English, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and the first volume of Jean Lacouture’s biography of Charles de Gaulle. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to literature. In the same year he was also awarded the CBE. In 1997 he was given an honorary doctorate of letters by Trinity College, Dublin. Patrick O’Brian lived for many years in south west France, and died in Dublin in January 2000.

Patrick O’Brian is best known for the Aubrey–Maturin series, acclaimed by Richard Snow in ‘The New York Times’ as ‘the best historical novels ever written’.