Description
Join award-winning and bestselling novelist, Kate Mosse, as she spills all on the thrilling third novel in the Joubert Family Chronicles.
A sweeping and epic queer love story, ranging from France in 1610 to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, The Ghost Ship is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the High Seas. Most of all, it is a tale of defiant women in a man’s world.
Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. 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. 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?
Mosse is known to be one of the biggest advocates of female authors worldwide, as well as one of our best historical authors. She will share how she meticulously researched for her gripping, thrilling and a spectacularly written new work.
About the Author
Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, campaigner, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of ten novels and short-story collections, her books have sold over five million copies, been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel), The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones) and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Taxidermist’s Daughter and The Winter Ghosts. Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World.
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