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Patrick O'Brian

June 2021

  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    Avast and furious: will it be a triumphant return for Master and Commander?

    Loyal fans of Peter Weir’s 2003 naval classic have had their timbers shivered by news of a return for Captain Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin. But is the prequel approach the right one?

September 2019

  • Steve McQueen in the 1973 film of Papillon.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 escapes in books

    Breaking free from confinement has been a driving theme for authors as diverse as Jane Austen, Henri Charrière and Geoffrey Household

October 2018

  • Patrick O’Brian, author.

    Patrick O'Brian's unknown poems discovered in a drawer

    Cache of more than 100 pieces, of which even his family was unaware, will be published next year as The Uncertain Land and Other Poems

November 2015

  • Library at the Berkshires Home of Wharton<br>ca. 1978-1996, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA --- Two sofas and a desk rest in the library of The Mount, novelist Edith Wharton’s house in Lenox, the Berkshires, Massachusetts. Wharton’s book The Decoration of Houses served as the principle inspiration for the structure. --- Image by © Lee Snider/Photo Images/Corbis

    Books blog
    Guardian readers' comfort library

    Jane Austen rubs shoulders with Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett sits next to Harry Potter in the great self-help archive assembled by our contributors

March 2015

  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    Books blog
    Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

    Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them

December 2014

  • Patrick O'Brian

    David Hepworth on radio
    David Hepworth on radio: The Surgeon’s Mate, Bookclub and what else to listen to this week

    On the centenary of adventure writer Patrick O’Brian’s birth, Benedict Cumberbatch narrates the Captain Jack Aubrey story and there’s a repeat of Master And Commander

November 2014

  • 2003, MASTER AND COMMANDER

    Why Patrick O’Brian is Jane Austen at sea

    What better way to mark the O’Brian’s centenary than by jumping on board with Captain Jack, writes Lucy Eyre

July 2012

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review

    The Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, The English Monster by Lloyd Shepherd and Patrick O'Brian's The Commodore

January 2011

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    Sue Arnold's audiobook choice

    The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy | The Aubrey-Maturin Chronicles by Patrick O'Brian | The Conqueror Series: Book 2 – Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden

June 2009

  • Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
    Naval gazing

    Audiobook review: The Aubrey-Maturin Chronicles by Patrick O'Brian
    I've heard some splendid actors read these epics but Robert Hardy is in a different league, says Sue Arnold

November 2005

  • Hidden realms

    PD Smith, Nicola Barr and Vera Rule on The Infinite Book | The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat | Patrick O'Brian | In Tasmania | The Artist and the Garden

December 2004

  • Knickers ahoy

    Joseph O'Connor is not convinced by either Patrick O'Brian's sketch of The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, or Nikolai Tolstoy's solidly written biography of the master and commander of sea-fiction.

November 2004

  • All at sea

    Nikolai Tolstoy's rambling apologia for his grisly novelist stepfather, Patrick O'Brian, is a failure, says Rachel Cooke.

November 2003

  • Cast away

    Three years after his death, his acclaimed seafaring novels are still bestsellers and have just been made into a blockbuster movie. But recent revelations about how Patrick O'Brian abandoned his family have cast a shadow over his work. Here, his son Richard Russ recalls a stern and sarcastic father

  • War, women and weevils

    Why I love O'Brian's books

  • Promotional picture for Master and Commander For further information please contact the Twentieth Century Fox Press Office. Russell Crowe

    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World review – crackingly entertaining

    Peter Weir again demonstrates a golden touch in this seafaring yarn starring an infectiously enjoyable Russell Crowe, in his best role since Gladiator

February 2003

  • Top 10s
    Peter F Stevens's top 10 nautical books

    The author of The Voyage of the Catalpa shares his top 10 nautical books, but hastens to explain, "As an aficionado of CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower books and Patrick O'Brian's great tales of the Royal Navy, there was no way I could select just one from each author."

August 2002

  • After Rebecca

    Sue Arnold on Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman | Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian

April 2001

  • High seas of adventure

    Isobel Montgomery looks at English Passengers by Matthew Kneale, Caesar by Patrick O'Brian, The Manuscript by Eva Zeller, Recherché by Jim Williams and a new translation of Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost

March 2001

  • Queen of hearts

    John Dugdale looks at Elizabeth by David Starkey, and Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed by Dean King

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