Pirates Of Barbary

Tinniswood’s absorbing book is packed with bad characters, big fights and breathless chases – Peter Lewis * Daily Mail *Tinniswood narrates this story with brio and bravura, displaying an excellent eye for the theatrical detail and juicy episode – Maria Fusaro * BBC History Magazine *Adrian Tinniswood is a masterly writer of history with a gift for slamming his readers into the thick of the action – Jason Goodwin * Literary Review *This rollicking book unpicks a confusion of names, dates and places to produce a fascinating history of seabourne conflict. – Christopher Hudson * Daily Telegraph *This exciting book proves that such obscurity is both surprising and undeserved – James McConnachie * The Times *A thrilling account * The Sunday Telegraph *Fascinating book – Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *Skilfully evokes the dread that corsairs aroused – Ludovic Hunter-Tilney * Financial Times *Tinniswood’s artful blend of narrative and analysis brings the pirates’ society to life. Beneath the vivid surface of this book there lie, sometimes obscured by the vividness, the careful investigation and astute judgement of one of the most incisive of our popular historians. – Blair Worden * Spectator *North African pirates were the scourge of the 17th century, and plundered as far as Cornwall. Tinniswood tells their story with verve – Keith Lowe * Telegraph *

Adrian Tinniswood is professorial research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham, adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of many books on British history, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Long Weekend. He was awarded an OBE for services to heritage, and lives in the west of Ireland.

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