Links
Companion sites
Aubrey/Maturin series text search. Enables you to search the entire canon.
The Dear Surprise. Resources to enhance the reading of the canon.
Voyages of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin The Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project, assembled by Tom Horn.
A Guide for the Perplexed: Patrick O'Brian's 'Foreign' Translated, edited by Anthony Gary Brown (author of The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book).
H.M.S. Surprise (Wayback Machine) by Bruce Trinque.
The Lubber's Hole: A Patrick O'Brian podcast
Maturin's Medicine (Wayback Machine): A medical companion to the canon. Compiled by Kerry Webb inter alia.
The Ships of Jack Aubrey: Informative pages on ships in the canon by Bruce Trinque.
"The Centurion's Gig" (from "Winters Tales for Children 4", 1968). A "lost" short story featuring characters from "The Golden Ocean" and "The Unknown Shore".
The Mauritius Campaign (Wayback Machine): comprehensive study of the history behind Book IV of the Canon by Bruce Trinque.
Interviews with PO'B
A Life in the Day of Patrick O'Brian (Sunday Times, 1989) (jpeg).
PO'B interview with Francis Spufford (Independent, 1992) (jpeg).
A landlubber beneath the stuns'l boom iron: Peter Guttridge meets the remarkable and well-mannered novelist Patrick O'Brian (Independent, 1993).
Conversations/Patrick O'Brian by Francis X. Clines (New York Times, 1993).
An Evening With Patrick O'Brian (Mariner's Museum, 1995) (YouTube).
Patrick O’Brian, The Art of Fiction No. 142 - interview by Stephen Becker (Paris Review, 1995).
Interview with Robert Hass (City Arts of San Francisco, 1995) (mp3) Part 1, Part 2.
Interview with Neil Conan (NPR, 1995) (mp3)
Interview with Frank J. Prial (New York Times, 1998)
Online chat with Richard Snow (Barnes and Noble, 1998) (Wayback machine).
Meet the writer: Patrick O'Brian (Barnes and Noble, 1999) (Wayback machine).
Book Discussion on Blue at the Mizzen with Walter Cronkite (CSpan, 1999) (video).
Patrick O'Brian: Sailing Upon Ancient Seas: interview with Dana Goodyear (Publisher's Weekly, 1999).
Articles and interviews about PO'B
An Author I'd Walk the Plank For Richard Snow in The New York Times, 1991.
Patrick O'Brian's Ship Comes In Mark Horowitz in The New York Times, 1993.
Cruising with Patrick O'Brian - The Man and the Myth Tom Perkins in Latitude 38, 2000.
O'Brian: the most Irish Englishman Kevin Myers in the Daily Telegraph, 2000 (Wayback machine).
O'Brian's Great Voyage Christopher Hitchens in The New York Review, 2000.
Empire Falls: How Master and Commander gets Patrick O'Brian wrong Christopher Hitchen in Slate, 2003.
Castaway Richard Russ in The Guardian, 2003.
Master and Deceiver: Nikolai Tolstoy on Patrick O'Brian From The Times, 30 November 2003, by permission of Nikolai Tolstoy.
Music in Patrick O'Brian's novels John Zech from Minnesota Public Radio, 2003
Sad last chapter in the life of Patrick O'Brian. Article by Ben Fenton in the Daily Telegraph, 2004
The Life of O'Brian (originally appeared in The Rare Book Review, 2005). An interview by Sara Waterson with Nikolai Tolstoy about PO'B's book collection.
Forever Bailing: Patrick O’Brian’s last unfinished novel and the end of the Aubrey-Maturin series. Jo Walton, in Reactor, 2011.
Why Patrick O’Brian is Jane Austen at sea. Article by Lucy Eyre in The Guardian, 2014.
BBC Radio 4 Book Club on "Master and Commander", with Allan Mallinson and James Naughtie, 2014.
Finding Patrick O'Brian in Collioure: A Literary Pilgrimage by K. C. Borden, 2015.
Escape from today. Clive James explains how, terminally ill and barely bothering with books, he began to read again - thanks to the Jack Aubrey novels. The Sunday Times, 2015.
Patrick O'Brian's unknown poems discovered in a drawer. Sian Cain, The Guardian, 2018.
How troll stories blighted the life of Patrick O’Brian by William Waldegrave in The Spectator, 2019.
Reverse of the medal: The posthumous reputation of Patrick O’Brian by Frances Wilson in the Times Literary Supplement, 2020.
A Very Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O’Brian. An interview by Peter Moore for Unseen Stories, 2025.
"Master and Commander" and the Citroën 2CV by Brendan McAleer, in Hegarty, 2025
Actually, Master and Commander is a Domestic Fantasy About a Codependent Life Partnership by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith in the Literary Hub, 2025