Patrick O’Brian
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.
Reviews of The Nutmeg of Consolation
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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‘In a highly competitive field it goes straight to the top. A real first-rater.’
Mary Renault‘I never enjoyed a novel about the sea more. It is not only that the author describes the handling of a ship of 1800 with an accuracy that is as comprehensible as it is detailed, a remarkable feat in itself. Mr O’Brian’s three chief characters are drawn with no less depth of sympathy than the vessels he describes, a rare achievement save in the greatest writers of this genre. It deserves the widest readership.’
Irish Times
More from Patrick O’Brian
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Collected Short Stories
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Testimonies
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Blue at the Mizzen
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The Hundred Days
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The Yellow Admiral
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The Commodore
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The Wine-dark Sea
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Clarissa Oakes
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The Thirteen-gun Salute
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The Letter of Marque
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The Reverse of the Medal
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Treason’s Harbour
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The Ionian Mission
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The Surgeon’s Mate
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The Fortune of War
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Desolation Island
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The Mauritius Command
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Post Captain
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Master and Commander
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The Far Side of the World
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