Patrick O’Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.
‘…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 ‘Patrick O’Brian writes as brilliantly as
ever. The Fortune of War is a marvellously full-flavoured,
engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre
like a three-decker over a ship’s longboat.’
T.J. Binyon, Times Literary Supplement ‘No one else writing in the
genre today can match his erudition, humour, inventiveness and
flair. With his marvellous grasp of contemporary idiom and of the
feeling of the period, he brings to the stories a power and
authenticity that can never fail to captivate.’
Kevin Myers, Irish Sunday Independent ‘Beautifully written, this is
a book to read again and again, as so many of its predecessors have
been.’
Yorkshire Post ‘Captain Aubrey and his surgeon, Stephen Maturin,
compose one of those complex and fascinating pairs of characters
which have inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the
Iliad.’
Iris Murdoch
'...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
'Patrick O'Brian writes as brilliantly as ever. The Fortune of
War is a marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers
over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a
ship's longboat.'
T.J. Binyon, Times Literary Supplement
'No one else writing in the genre today can match his erudition,
humour, inventiveness and flair. With his marvellous grasp of
contemporary idiom and of the feeling of the period, he brings to
the stories a power and authenticity that can never fail to
captivate.'
Kevin Myers, Irish Sunday Independent
'Beautifully written, this is a book to read again and again, as
so many of its predecessors have been.'
Yorkshire Post
'Captain Aubrey and his surgeon, Stephen Maturin, compose one of
those complex and fascinating pairs of characters which have
inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the Iliad.'
Iris Murdoch
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