Patrick O'Brian

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

Patrick O'Brian

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

Books by Patrick O'Brian

  • Blue at the Mizzen

    Patrick O'Brian

    Paperback, 2023

    "The old master has us again in the palm of his hand."—Los Angeles Times (a Best Book of 1999)
  • The Unknown Shore

    Patrick O'Brian

    E Book, 2012

    Inspired by the Wagerdisaster, The Unknown Shoreis an immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series that displays all the splendid prose and attention to detail that...
  • The Coming of Age

    Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick O'Brian

    Paperback, 1996

    As the definitive study of the universal problem of growing old, The Coming of Age is "a brilliant achievement" (Marc Slonin, New York Times).
  • Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels

    Anne Chotzinoff Grossman, Lisa Grossman Thomas, Patrick O'Brian

    Paperback, 2000

    "A scholarly (though often hilarious) triumph of culinary anthropology."—Washington Post