Resources
A Gift from the Gunroom to Patrick O'Brian, organized by Steve Zimmermann.
Aubrey-Maturin Chronology, by Don Seltzer.
Aubrey-Maturin Poster, by Jaye Rebecca Haworth.
Aubreyisms, assembled and annotated by Anna Ravano.
Bells in the Tower: Patrick O'Brian's unattributed use of A.E. Housman's Poem AP IX, in his novel The Thirteen-Gun Salute, by Lois Montbertrand.
Boney: lissuns sing a sea shanty.
Book XXI - Transcription of the final pages of The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey from the facsimile pages of Patrick O'Brian's holographic work in progress manuscript and notes for his final book.
Dr Maturin's Natural History by Wanda Finch.
Errata, being a collection of typos, misspellings, and minor inconsistencies in the Aubrey/Maturin novels, reported by Gunroom lissuns and compiled by Larry Breed.
Film and Book Connections, compiled by Jacquie Milner.
Geoff Hunt Covers, with commentaries by Don Seltzer.
Jack Aubrey's Career Prior to the Books by Dick Ellis.
Lissuns in the Galley: recipes from the Gunroom compiled by Ladyshrike.
Memorials Lissuns we have sadly lost (and weevils we have named).
Pagination of various Aubrey-Maturin novel editions, by Bruce Trinque.
Patrick and Mary O'Brian. A biography adapted from the entry in The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book by Anthony Gary Brown.
PO'B's Quotations, assembled and annotated by Anna Ravano.
PO'B's Town and Stephen's Country by Jay Reay. "This account gives my impressions of a day in Patrick O'Brian's adopted home town and a week in the family lands of [...] Stephen Maturin"
Ranks and Prize Money by Bruce Trinque.
Sounds of the period and of naval interest.
Stephen Maturin - Biographical Notes by Liz Bezera.
Stephen Maturin, the Early Years and Medical Student by Gill Cawthorn.
The Aubrey-Maturin Books as Literature, by Ken Ringle.
The Bear Went Over the Mountain by Bruce Trinque. Finally, Jack's route over the Pyrenees in a bearskin is revealed.
The King William's College quiz. A challenge we try to meet every year.
The Lissun's London Locator by Jay Reay. If you're visiting London and would like to see places mentioned in the canon, this is for you.
The Log of the "Leopard", from Desolation Island by Warren Campbell.
The Lost Paragraph from the original version of HMS Surprise. This paragraph was omitted from the later editions (HarperCollins and Norton) of the third book in the canon.
The Shipwreck of Sir Cloudesley Shovell transcribed by Henry Buurman for the Gunroom.
Three Nautical Lexicons transcribed by Chris Morrison.
Welsh for Readers of Testimonies by Sue Northcott.