The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles #3)

A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is the swashbuckling third volume in Kate Mosse's enthralling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles.

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 what they seem: if arrested, they will hang for their alleged crimes. Can they survive their journey and escape their fate?

A tale of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes, piracy and hidden secrets on the high seas, The Ghost Ship is the third instalment in The Joubert Family Chronicles.

About the Author

Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, campaigner, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of 10 novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. A regular guest on radio and television for literature, Kate hosts the pre-show interview series at Chichester Festival Theatre and is a regular interviewer for literary and arts festivals.

The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction – the world’s largest annual literary awards celebrating writing by women – 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 also an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors, a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester.

Reviews

"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

"Beautifully written and engaging from the first page, keeping you guessing until the end" —Amanda De Beer, The Independent

"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

"Transporting, intelligent, heartwarming and intriguing, this is historical fiction at its finest" —Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane

Dimensions: 13 x 3.1 x 19.6 cm