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Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the best historical novelist writing in English. In THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are stranded with an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape but, after a stay static in Batavia and an alteration of ship, they are really caught up on the chase in fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in a lot more insidious conflicts on the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It really is one of O'Brian's most accomplished and gripping books. "O'Brian's narrative pace is often gripping: it shifts its speed and endless varying shocks and surprises - comic, grim, farcical and tragic." A. S. Byatt, EVENING TIMES
