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Twenty-one volumes. One of the greatest achievements in historical fiction — complete at last. Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series — the Napoleonic-era naval adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin — is widely considered the finest historical novel sequence ever written. This complete collection gathers all twenty-one volumes in one edition.
From Master and Commander (1969) to the unfinished 21, O’Brian combines thrilling sea battles and meticulous period detail with one of literature’s great friendships: the bluff, music-loving Jack and the brilliant, secretive Stephen — naturalist, spy, and physician. The prose is dense, witty, and utterly immersive: you will learn the language of the tall ships by living it.
For readers of historical fiction, this is the summit — the series against which all others are measured. Twenty-one volumes of adventure, friendship, and the age of sail, in the definitive complete edition.
Genius, showman, rebel — Orson Welles packed several lifetimes into one. In Citizen Welles, Frank Brady draws on a decade of research to deliver the first comprehensive biography of the man who changed cinema forever at twenty-five with Citizen Kane.
Brady traces Welles from boy prodigy to Broadway wunderkind, from the Mercury Theatre’s infamous 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast to the triumph and heartbreak of Citizen Kane — and the long, restless decades that followed, when Hollywood’s most gifted filmmaker was reduced to scrambling for financing, acting in other people’s movies to fund his own. Along the way: the mutilation of The Magnificent Ambersons, the noir brilliance of Touch of Evil, the European exile, and the unfinished dreams that haunted him to the end.
Far from a simple celebration, this is a full portrait — the charisma and the chaos, the charm and the self-sabotage. For film lovers, it’s an essential companion to Welles’s work; for everyone else, it’s the riveting story of what happens when unstoppable talent meets an immovable industry.
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