Kate Mosse 'The Ghost Ship'

Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse is an No 1 international bestselling novelist, non-fiction writer and playwright. Her ten novels and short story collections, include The Joubert Family Chronicles (The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship) - as well as the multi-million selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel) and Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter. She has also written four works of non-fiction including An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World, four plays, and contributed essays and introductions to classic novels and collections. Her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. Kate is the Founder Director of the Women's Prizes, a Visiting Professor in Creative Writing & Contemporary Literature at the University of Chichester and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  Her latest novel, The Ghost Ship, comes out in July 2023.

The Ghost Ship

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.

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