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The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24To whom does one's true allegiance lie? Jack Aubrey's long service has at last been rewarded with promotion to the rank of commodore, and a squadron of ships to command. His new commission... -
Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Whether on land or at sea, can Jack Aubrey stay one step ahead of his enemies? With the Treaty of Amiens, England is at peace. At least for now. . . ... -
The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24On dry land, having been drawn into the half-worlds of London's criminal underground and of government espionage, Jack Aubrey faces perhaps the greatest challenge of his life. With rumours... -
The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian 9781324021551
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Having 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 Jack it is a happy homecoming, at... -
Clarissa Oakes by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them. As he sails away from Port Jackson, Captain Jack Aubrey feels nothing but... -
The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Can Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew defy the odds, and outmanoeuvre the French, to take two small but vital islands in the Indian Ocean? Life ashore on half pay, despite the joys of... -
The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Loving someone, in a time of war and divided loyalties, can be the greatest risk of all. Ordered home by despatch vessel, Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin have been... -
Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Malta, in 1813, is ostensibly a safe harbour, yet the island is a nest of French spies, and even those in authority are not to be trusted. As Captain Jack Aubrey cools his heels in a... -
Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged... Captain Bligh, of Bounty fame, is now governor of New South Wales and facing mutiny anew,... -
A Book of Voyages by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary... -
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Booksplease Price: £10.23Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile-after a heated first encounter that nearly... -
The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Whether close to home or far away, there are no safe harbours while Napoleon seeks to dominate the known world. Jack Aubrey, veteran of numerous battles, has been promoted to senior... -
The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Thrown out of the navy for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey has lost everything he held most dear. In command of his beloved Surprise, but in a civilian capacity, Jack Aubrey must... -
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24For a man of war, peacetime is the ultimate challenge. Leaving behind them a Europe still taking stock after the definitive battle of Waterloo, Jack Aubrey and his friend Stephen Maturin... -
HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24How far will a man go in the name of revenge, honour, love or simple survival? Far from familiar seas, Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew must test themselves to the very... -
The Unknown Shore by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24The second book Patrick O'Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean. As in The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore tells the tale of another ill-fated ship on... -
Testimonies by Patrick O'Brian 9780008695477
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Back in print and now in hardback, the deeply personal and ingenious literary first novel written under Patrick O'Brian's own name, newly introduced by Nikolai Tolstoy. ... -
The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious... -
The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Britain and America are newly at war, and Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are caught in the very thick of the action. En route to England and his next command, Captain Jack Aubrey, and his... -
The Truelove by Patrick O'Brian 9781324020554
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Sandwich Islands at French instigation, and Captain Jack Aubrey is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in... -
Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian 9780393881738
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393881738Author Patrick O'BrianFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher... -
Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian 9780393037098
RRP: £41.50Booksplease Price: £35.22All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries... -
The Thirteen-gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Entrusted with a secret mission, the perils of the South China Sea await. In the fight against the French, a treaty with the Sultan of Pulo Prabang, a piratical Malay state, may prove... -
The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian 9781324021704
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable... -
Picasso: A Biography by Patrick O'Brian 9780393311075
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.03Patrick O'Brian's outstanding biography of Picasso is here available in paperback for the first time. It is the most comprehensive yet written, and the only biography fully to appreciate the... -
The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian 9780393541632
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.07Captain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the British Navy. He and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin,... -
Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian 9780393541625
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a... -
The Unknown Shore by Patrick O'Brian 9780393315387
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.30Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to... -
Testimonies: A Novel by Patrick O'Brian 9780393313161
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.15Delmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel Testimonies: "A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the... -
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian 9780006512110
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Napoleon has escaped from Elba - the Hundred Days have begun. The war is over, the armies dispersed, and the former Emperor of the French has been consigned to a Mediterranean island, yet... -
The Thirteen Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life as a privateer. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin-his friend, ship's surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agent-on a... -
Joseph Banks by Patrick O'Brian 9780226616285
Booksplease Price: £17.41One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of... -
Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian 9781324035275
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a... -
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian 9780006499152
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.98In this, the first of Patrick O'Brian's much lauded Aubrey-Maturin novels, discover a vibrant world conjured by a master storyteller, rich with detail and character. 1800... -
The Catalans: A Novel by Patrick O'Brian 9780393329728
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.62This novel is a powerful successor to Testimonies, Patrick O'Brian's first novel written for adults. It is set in that corner of France that became O'Brian's adopted home, where the long, dark wall... -
The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24There is a fine line between privateer and pirate, between friend and foe. With a beleaguered Britain already facing war on two fronts - against Napoleon's armies in Europe but also... -
The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian 9780006499640
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24The higher one climbs, the further there is to fall. As war with Napoleon seemingly draws to a close, opportunities for advancement are limited and Jack Aubrey faces the ultimate indignity... -
The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian 9780393881745
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.36Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin 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 in the Royal Navy's blockade... -
The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian 9780006499299
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24On foreign shores, and far from home, a friend can become a foe in a heartbeat. Shipwrecked on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies as the Napoleonic Wars rage on, circumstances... -
The Golden Ocean by Patrick O'Brian 9780393315370
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.45In the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson...