Thirteen Gun Salute, The
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Thirteen Gun Salute, The

Patrick O'Brian
Robert Hardy
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 2 hours 52 minutes
Categories : Historical
War & Military
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As 'The Thirteen-Gun Salute' opens Jack Aubrey has been reinstated to his command, and he and his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing on a secret mission with a hand-picked crew, most of them shipmates from the adventures and lucrative voyages of earlier years. But Patrick O’Brian’s resourcefulness is a sure warrant that things will not turn out as his readers or characters expect. Twists and turns, sub-plots, echoes from the past, these are the only certainties in this astonishing novel. Distant waters, exotic scenes, flora and fauna to satisfy Maturin’s innocent curiosity as well as scope for his cloak and dagger work enrich ts flow. The ending leaves the reader more than usually impatient for its successor.

“… Robert Hardy has a consummate knack of giving timbre and atmosphere to everything he reads.”
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‘The century’s finest sea stories’
Daily Mail

‘As entertaining as its predecessors. O’Brian is a master of the narrative of action, but he has sustained interest through this long sequence of novels by expanding the genre to which they belong so that it can include much else besides.’
Peter Campbell, London Review of Books

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McCarthy's Bar
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McCarthy's Bar

Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
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Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography
Biographical
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The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.

McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.

Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.