PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Patrick O'Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey--Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime's contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.
In the 20th in the highly acclaimed, bestselling Aubrey-Maturin series, Aubrey, now a blue-level admiral, sets sail with Maturin on a mission to Chile. Historical fiction at its best as the sights and smells of South America come to life. Picking up where The Hundred Days left off, the pair set sail for revolutionary South America, leaving Waterloo behind them. (Kirkus UK)
