Publish Date: 1969 – 1999
Adventurous and gripping, the Jack Aubrey novels comprise twenty completed volumes and one unfinished set during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin. In 2004, O’Brian’s unfinished novel was published posthumously. The series received international acclaim and was adapted into the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.