Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail to Australia with a hold full of convicts. On board is a beautiful and dangerous spy, and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew.

'Master and Commander' is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels. The story establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and intelligence agent.

Set amongst the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of a small seaside village in Catalonia, Patrick O'Brian's second novel is a poignant story of tumultuous love, complex faith and one man's desperate bid to reclaim his humanity.

When financial difficulties force him to flee England, Jack Aubrey seeks refuge in Napoleonic France. Instead he finds himself hunted like a fugitive, and, with the help of old friend Stephen Maturin, must find a way to escape and clear his debts.

Captain Jack Aubrey's friend Stephen arrives with secret orders to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore's pennant. But he finds difficulty in carrying out his orders because of Lord Clonfert and Captain Corbett, his own Captains.

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the seventh book in the series.

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior Captain commanding a line-of-battle ship, and this is a longer, harder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days.

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the ninth book in the series.

It is still the war of 1812. Jack Aubrey & his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade.

Jack Aubrey returns from his duties protecting whalers of South America and is persuaded to make investments in the City. From there he is led into the halfworlds of the London criminal underground and of government espionage.