Russell's ebook Library
1 - Master & Commander
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [1]: Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O'Brian′s now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels and establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship′s surgeon and an intelligenc...
2 - Post Captain
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [2]: This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives o...
3 - H.M.S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [3]: H.M.S. Surprise, the third in O'Brian′s acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey′s career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground against admirals, colleagues and the enemy, ...
4 - The Mauritius Command
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [4]: In The Mauritius Command, Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command until his friend, and occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Goo...
5 - Desolation Island
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [5]: Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy , and a...
6 - The Fortune of War
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [6]: Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel....
7 - The Surgeon's Mate
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [7]: Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the Ne...
8 - The Ionian Mission
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [8]: Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship sent out to reinforce the squadron block...
9 - Treason's Harbour
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [9]: Much of the plot of Treason′s Harbour depends on intelligence and counter-intelligence, a field in which Aubrey′s friend Stephen Maturin excels. Through him we get a clear insight into the life and habits of the sea officers of Ne...
10 - The Far Side of the World
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [10]: Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and Aubrey's tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written.It is 1812 and the heroes set course across the South Atlantic to intercep...
11 - The Reverse of the Medal
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [11]: Jack Aubrey returns from his duties protecting whalers off South America and is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make investments in the City on the strength of supposedly certain information. From there he is led into the h...
12 - The Letter of Marque
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [12]: Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship's surgeon Stephe...
13 - The Thirteen-Gun Salute
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [13]: For all Jack Aubrey's life he has triumphed, often sensationally, over the dangers of the sea and the violence of the enemy. But his rashness, his guilelessness, his indiscretion have, time and time again, enabled his rivals to p...
14 - The Nutmeg of Consolation
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [14]: 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 ch...
15 - Clarissa Oakes
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [15]: Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his shi...
16 - The Wine-Dark Sea
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [16]: At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea.Stephen’s objective is to set the revolutionary...
17 - The Commodore
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [17]: Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold – to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on hi...
18 - The Yellow Admiral
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [18]: The Yellow Admiral – the eighteenth novel in the sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written – sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonapart...
19 - The Hundred Days
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [19]: Following the extraordinary success of The Yellow Admiral, this latest Aubrey-Maturin novel brings alive the sights and sounds of North Africa as well as the great naval battles in the days immediately following Napoleon’s escape...
20 - Blue At The Mizzen
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [20]: The novel′s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon′s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level a...
21 - The Final, Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [21]: At the time of his death, Patrick O'Brian had begun to write a novel to follow on from Blue at the Mizzen, the twentieth book in the classic series. These are the chapters he had completed of the final voyage of Jack Aubrey and S...
