Patrick OBrians 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 jackets.
Patrick OBrian is now recognised as the greatest historical novelist writing in English. He has been described variously as Jane Austen sur mer and the greatest novelist youve never read. But at last he is enjoying the recognition he deserves with huge media interest in both him and his books.
All the elements that have made Patrick OBrians astonishing series one of the most highly praised works in contemporary fiction are here in Clarissa Oakes the narrative grip, the impeccable ear for dialogue, the humour and the unsurpassed capacity to create and recreate a rich and true friendship between two men in the late eighteenth-century.
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full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein Patrick OBrian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars. James Hamilton- Paterson
You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick OBrian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him. Kevin Myers, Irish Times
The best of twentieth-century historical novels T.J. Binyon
What is so gripping about OBrians novels is the completeness with which he invents a world which is our own and not our own OBrian is a brilliant observer. A.S. Byatt, Evening Standard
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Winner of Heywood Hill Literary Prize 1995.
Patrick OBrian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed AubreyMaturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetimes contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.
