Books written by Patrick O'Brian

The Surgeon's Mate

Ordered home by dispatch vessel, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin find their ship pursued by two privateers through the fog of the Grand Banks
Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Now that the Napoleonic Wars are over, frigate captain Jack Aubrey faces desertion, near sinking, and brawls with British sailors--all before he reaches his next destination, Chile--where he will help the fledgling country break free of ...
Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." —Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of ...
The Letter of Marque (Vol. Book 12) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

A nighttime battle with an unusual climax, a jewel of great value, and Maturin’s fondness for opium make this segment of Patrick O’Brian’s masterful series both original and profoundly exciting.
The Fortune of War

Jack Aubrey, commander of the best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy, leaves the Dutch East Indies to return to England in a dispatch vessel, but the outbreak of the War of 1812 delays his journey and draws him into bloody battle
Treason's Harbour (Vol. Book 9) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

He was growing a little snappish from hunger: he looked at his watch and asked Jack to touch the bell again. But the Admiral fed was more amiable than the Admiral fasting. He had several other guests, a Monsignore, a travelling English ...
The Thirteen Gun Salute (Vol. Book 13) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

"In length the series is unique; in quality—and there is not a weak link in the chain—it cannot but be ranked with the best of twentieth century historical novels."—T.
The Unknown Shore

In Jack and Toby, O'Brian fans will thrill to catch fascinating glimpses of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, famed heroes of the great Aubrey/Maturin series to come.
The Ionian Mission

"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 Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return ...
Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

"The best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence ...
The Far Side of the World (Vol. Book 10) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Captain Jack Aubrey, accompanied by ship's surgeon and intelligence operative, Stephen Maturin, sails for Cape Horn, assigned to intercept an American frigate that is disrupting the British whaling trade.
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy

This book is a companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, a straightforward exploration of what daily life in Nelson's navy was really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit. What did they eat?
The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Mrs Oakes, the Scarlet Woman, as the Sethians and some others called her, came first, in a modified version of her wedding-dress; she dropped Aubrey the prettiest straight- backed curtsey, exactly timed to the frigate's roll, ...
Picasso: A Biography

Picasso liked what he was used to. and the deeply conservative side of his nature meant that custom might outweigh though not wipe out resentment. Since Olga was still feeling the eiiects of having her baby, she and Pablo did not go far ...
The Mauritius Command

Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command until his friend, surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a commodore's pennant.
The Phantom of Manhattan

A stunning sequel to Phantom of the Opera.
The Mauritius Command

Stephen Maturin brings Captain Jack Aubrey secret orders to lead an expedition against the French islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, but the conduct of two of his own officers threatens the success of the mission.
The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

The seventeenth novel in the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written.
The Ionian Mission

Worse, he's off to the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy's endless blockade of the French port of Toulon. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates.
Ionian Mission

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of may battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior Captain...