Patrick O’Brian’s 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 O’Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It is one of O’Brian’s most accomplished and gripping books.
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‘...full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein... Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.’
James Hamilton- Paterson
‘You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O’Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.’
Kevin Myers, Irish Times
‘The best historical novels ever written.’
New York Times
‘The Nutmeg of Consolation brings his achievement to a new height. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O’Brian a Master of the Art.’
Alan Judd, Sunday Telegraph
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue boards with gilt titles to the spine. Clean pages. Jacket is not price clipped and just has slight fade to the spine. 2nd print 1991. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Seller Inventory # s10484
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue boards with gilt titles to the spine. Clean pages and firm binding. Dust jacket is not price clipped. jacket has some fade to the spine. 1998 edition. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Seller Inventory # s15835
Book Description Hardcover. Octavo; G+/VG-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, blue with grey and blue print; DJ has light bump to front top fore corner, else clean and bright; Boards in blue cloth, slightly cocked spine, else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight but for penciled translation of Latin dedication; 315 pages. 1358237. FP New Rockville Stock. Seller Inventory # 1358237
Book Description First edition. 1st edition. Glue-residue & thinned paper where label removed from front free end paper; binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped. Appears to be a very well-disguised ex-library book. Used - Good. Good hardback in VG dust jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS132262I
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st UK Edition. 315 pages in very good condition; outer edges a little yellowed. Blue hardcovers, gilt titles on spine. Corners not bumped. Full colour pictorial DJ with green/red titles. Very light wear on corners and edges. Price-clipped. VG+/VG+. Seller Inventory # 216233
Book Description Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0002234610-2-4
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: F-. Second Printing. F-/F-. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (small ink number to FFE, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper (priced £14.99. trifling sunning to spine); pp. 316 (last blank). A near fine copy. The fourteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Seller Inventory # 023258
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0002234610-2-3
Book Description Hardback. fine hardcover copy in a near fine, price clipped, dustwrapper. Cover by Geoff Hunt 1st edition. Shipwrecked! When Captain Aubrey and his crew go aground on a remote island, they labour to construct a seaworthy schooner from the wreckage. Seller Inventory # FA20.008
Book Description Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. LONDON 1991 FIRST EDITION 2ND PRINTING.M/M .BLUE BOARDS WITH GILT LETTERING.THE WRAPPER IS THE SAME AS THE TRUE FIRST AND IS PRICE CLIPPED.THE BOOK IS UNREAD. Seller Inventory # POBUKARTNOC