In 'The Mauritius Command', Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command until his friend, occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to...

It is still the War of 1812 and Jack Aubrey, with his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin, have set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to...

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

Jack Aubrey returns from his duties protecting whalers off South America and is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make investments in the City on the strength of supposedly certain...

‘Master and Commander’ is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the...

While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the centre stage; for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's...