This is the seventh installment in the popular and long-running Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. The Surgeon’s Mate is a historical novel set during the Napoleonic Wars. Here we catch up with Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin just after they have gotten out of…
Patrick O’Brian, the “father” of Captain Jack Aubrey and his particular friend doctor Stephen Maturin, was a fantastic writer. The series of 20 books about these two characters – their travels, their conversations, their lives, the espionage, and all the rest…
After completing the siege of a French fortress in Corsica, and bravely having cut out and destroyed a French supply ship in a naval action, the outspoken and unfortunate Lieutenant George Markham and his men are assigned to a sloop under…
This is the first story in the Nathaniel Drinkwater saga. The starting point in time is 1780 to 1782, the time of the American Revolution. Nathaniel Drinkwater’s life at sea begins in the HMS Cyclops, which is assigned to deal with American privateers…
Again Dudley Pope serves a thrilling and intriguing adventure at sea, with the naval hero Lord Ramage on centre stage. Ramage’s Prize is actually based on a true story. Post office packet brigs disappeared and it turned out that they were surrendered to French privateers.…
