Ranging from France to the Canary Islands, the third engrossing instalment of the Joubert Family Chronicles follows a courageous band of mariners committed to rescuing those enslaved by pirates.
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2024
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. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands.
But the bravest among them are not who they seem. The stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and escape their fate?
A sweeping and epic 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.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509806911
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 734 g
Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 40 mm
Mosse can tell a story . . . plunge relentlessly and breathlessly in alongside Louise and Gilles in their maritime adventure - The Times
Beautifully written and engaging from the first page, keeping you guessing until the end - Independent
A gripping, thrilling page-turner, richly imagined and impeccably told - Toronto Star
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
Transporting, intelligent, heartwarming and intriguing, this is historical fiction at its finest - Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane
Wonderful, rip roaringly adventurous and full of indelible characters. Mosse is a conjurer - Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch
A gorgeously written, utterly absorbing epic and, despite being set in the sixteenth century, has some very pertinent messages for our time about the evils of religious persecution and the transcendent power of love and family. In case it’s not clear enough yet, I absolutely LOVED it - Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Hunting Party and The Paris Apartment, on The City of Tears
[A] dramatic, immersive tale of secrets, conspiracies, fanaticism and loss - Daily Mail on The City of Tears
I'll never pass up a Kate Mosse book and I have invested a lot of time in reading this series, so I was happy to be able to read the concluding book in the Burning Chambers trilogy, "The Ghost Ship".... More
I was so excited to be granted the third book in this wonderful series which traces the history of The Huguenot Reydon-Joubert family in 17th Century Europe.
This one is about Piet and Minou’s granddaughter, Louise...
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Kate Mosse has to be one of the biggest advocates of female authors worldwide but she is also one of our best historical authors.
The Ghost Ship is the third in her series of novels featuring the Jouberts. Now...
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