The Ghost Ship

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller'I adored it!' - Santa Montefiore, author of An Italian Girl in BrooklynPiracy. 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 - 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 who they seem: if arrested, they will hang for their alleged crimes. Can they survive their journey and escape their fate?A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is a tale of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes, piracy and hidden secrets on the high seas.'Beautifully written and engaging from the first page' - Independent

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
Wonderful, rip roaringly adventurous and full of indelible characters. Mosse is a conjurer -- Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch
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
A gripping, thrilling page turner Toronto Star
Mosse's fans will relish this tale of secrets, love and treachery -- The Times on The Burning Chambers
A gorgeously written, utterly absorbing epic . . . I absolutely LOVED it -- Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Hunting Party and The Paris Apartment, on The City of Tears

Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of ten novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number one bestseller The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, and The Ghost Ship), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. The Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction, 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 a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester.

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