The Hundred Days: Book 19 (Aubrey-Maturin) - Hardcover

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Patrick O’Brian 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 lived for many years in south west France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.

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'The Hundred Days' is the long-awaited nineteenth novel in Patrick O'Brian's remarkable and best-selling Aubrey-Maturin series of naval tales. Described by James Hamilton-Paterson as "unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars", his last novel, 'The Yellow Admiral', was greeted on publication by unprecedented press coverage, features on O'Brian himself and rave reviews. He is widely hailed as the greatest historical novelist writing today.

Following on from 'The Yellow Admiral', this new novel is set in the days succeeding Napoleon's escape from Elba on 1 March 1815.
Aubrey and Maturin are in the thick of the action as Europe rallies to prevent the French emperor from regaining his power and prepares to fight him at Waterloo. Enriched with all the excitement of grand naval battles, it is O'Brian at his best.

"You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O'Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him."
KEVIN MYERS, 'Irish Times'

"While his stories tell of men at war, he is a novelist of great gentleness of spirit. A pervasive serenity, a generosity towards human frailty, are among the qualities which have made his books irresistible.
All the familiar virtues of O'Brian are here: effortless command of period dialogue, seamanship, culture and manners: intimate understanding of a small floating world dominated by the vagaries of the wind; droll observation of human idiosyncrasy."
MAX HASTINGS, 'Daily Telegraph'