The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse – The place is the Barbary Coast. The year is 1621.
A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. Those, who claim to have seen it, have named it the Ghost Ship. For many months, it has hunted down the ships that hold those enslaved by Barbary pirates. A lionhearted crew of mariners from Italy, France, Holland and the Canary Islands mans it.
Those, who are the bravest men on board, are not who they seem, however. The risks they take could not be higher as, if arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Will they survive this perilous journey and escape the consequences if they fail?
The narrative also tells of forbidden love, murder, and the violation of rights by the church and the rich regarding the poor.
Based on the true history of the people, places, and events that happened during those times, it is an enthralling novel that captures that era (France in1610 – Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s) perfectly.
Feel the love, taste the revenge, smell the sea air and take the ride of your life on the High Seas!
A glorious must-read for 2023!
ISBN: 9781509806928
The Ghost Ship is available in hardback, paperback and e-book
About Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of ten novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, the Joubert Family Chronicles, and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World.
The Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, she is the Founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign and has her own monthly YouTube book show, Mosse on a Monday. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester.
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