The first ever collection of poems by Patrick O’Brian, author of the Aubrey/Maturin series of Napoleonic naval adventures.
In these poems we see a writer full of a young man’s spirit, challenging life, and then an author reflecting an old man’s melancholy at youth gone; in between, as he describes the places he lived and people he encountered, are poems of sly observation, wry humour and delicate beauty.
‘O’Brian writes like a man to whom writing comes as easily as breathing: precisely, fluently, economically’ Sunday Telegraph
O’Brian’s World
O’Brian’s mastery of language is most wonderful of all. He manages to capture that mixture of toughness and grace which, for me at least, makes formal eighteenth-century English so attractive....
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Most people would agree that Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin novels, set when Britain’s Navy had first Napoleon and then the USA to confront, are among the best historical fiction the...
Read moreA Friendship of Opposites
Never one for naval yarns I didn’t at first spot Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin novels, which are set in the wars at sea against Napoleon and then the United States. But once I’d tried one...
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