Patrick O'Brian

The life of the world’s greatest modern artist by one of Britain’s greatest artists.

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 man's desperate bid to reclaim his humanity.

John Aubrey Pugh, an Oxford don who has given up his teaching post and come to live in a secluded Welsh valley, falls in love with Bronwen Vaughan, the wife of a young farmer who is his neighbour....

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles....

What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit? What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division of prize-money? Find out....

Nach seiner Zeit in Mauritius (siehe Episode 4: "Geheimauftrag Mauritius") erhält Jack Aubrey ein Landkommando bei der Miliz, was ihm Gelegenheit...

Durch einen Wechsel in der Spitze des Marine-Ministeriums erhält Kapitän Jack Aubrey nicht das Prisengeld in der erwarteten Höhe...

Leutnant, später Kapitänleutnant Jack Aubrey, Seemann und Offizier, der das Befehlen gewohnt ist und Dr. Stephen Maturin...

Käpt'n Jack Aubrey ist ausnahmsweise an Land glücklich, den er hat geheiratet. Aber er ist auch unglücklich: Er hat kein Schiff. Doch Stephen...

Der Friede zwischen England und Frankreich "bricht aus": Die Matrosen freuen sich, aber die Offiziere sitzen buchstäblich auf dem Trockenen...

Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix....

Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend, Stephen Maturin, take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route....

Captain Jack Aubrey, Royal Navy, ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the city. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London...

Hear the riveting stories of men and women battling the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting savage storms...

While Captain Aubrey worries....

Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances....

For those who dare, things often go wrong on the sea. Deep Blue offers some of literature's greatest stories about the ocean...

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....

Newly promoted to command of his first ship, Captain Jack Aubrey, along with his crew, and new friend and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, must patrol a Mediterranean fraught with peril but rich with rewards....

The war is over, the armies dispersed, and the former Emperor of the French has been consigned to a Mediterranean island, yet now he is marching again on Paris with an ever-growing army....