The Ghost Ship

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What to expect

'Another meticulously researched and stunningly written novel by a much-loved and highly accomplished author. I adored it!' - Santa Montefiore

Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is the third novel in the Joubert Family Chronicles from bestselling author Kate Mosse.

The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water – its hull splintered and its sails tattered and burnt. For months the Ghost Ship has hunted pirates to liberate enslaved prisoners. Now it – too – finds itself hunted.

But the ship’s crew hides a secret, and the stakes could not be higher. The bravest among them are not who they seem: if arrested, they will hang for their alleged crimes. Can they survive their journey and escape their fate?

A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is a tale of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes, piracy and hidden secrets on the high seas.

Critics Review

  • Beautifully written and engaging from the first page, keeping you guessing until the end

    Independent
  • Mosse can tell a story . . . plunge relentlessly and breathlessly in alongside Louise and Gilles in their maritime adventure

    The Times
  • Another meticulously researched and stunningly written novel by a much-loved and highly accomplished author. I adored it!

    Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of An Italian Girl in Brooklyn
  • The Ghost Ship is utterly absorbing. I couldn’t put it down and fell in love with her two main characters, and felt bereft when it ended

    Louise Minchin, BBC journalist, host of the Her Spirit podcast and author of Fearless
  • Gripping, thrilling, a spectacular work of scholarly reimagining, The Ghost Ship is a beautiful book about two women, about love, courage, suffering, and a world in which everything was on a knife edge. A stunning novel, a whole world recreated

    Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens
  • Appositely placed in the past – this compelling tale of women on a mission to be seen and heard is a tale for today. Page turning

    Helen Lederer, comedian and author of Losing It

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