Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Praise for the Aubrey/Maturin Series and Patrick O'Brian

"The best historical novels ever written."
--Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review

"I love these books.... [They offer] the same sense of lived experience as Hilary Mantel.... They will sweep you away and return you delighted, increased and stunned. If the phrase 'Napoleonic war fiction' fills you with anticipation, then you don't need me to convince you to read [Patrick] O'Brian. But for the rest of you.... [P]lease, just trust me."
--Nicola Griffith, NPR

"A few books work their way... onto [bestseller] lists by genuine, lasting excellence--witness The Lord of the Rings, or Patrick O'Brian's sea stories."
--Ursula K. Le Guin

"Like John LeCarr , [O'Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from 'serious' fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple,