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The Ghost Ship

An Epic Historical Novel from the No. 1 Bestselling Author

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The Ghost Ship

By: Kate Mosse
Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
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The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

‘I adored it’ – Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait For Me


A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is a swashbuckling tale of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the high seas.

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 breathtaking story of love and piracy, steeped in historical detail, The Ghost Ship is the third volume in Kate Mosse’s No. 1 international bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles. The adventure concludes with The Map of Bones.

Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:


'Gripping, complex and intensely atmospheric' – The Mail on Sunday on The Burning Chambers

'A historical epic' – The Observer on The City of Tears

'I couldn't put it down' — Louise Minchin, broadcaster and author of Isolation Island, on The Ghost Ship

The Ghost Ship was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 09-07-23

Action & Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Sea Adventures Women's Adventure Women's Fiction Adventure Haunted Pirate

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Critic reviews

Mosse can tell a story . . . plunge relentlessly and breathlessly in alongside Louise and Gilles in their maritime adventure
Beautifully written and engaging from the first page, keeping you guessing until the end
A gripping, thrilling page-turner, richly imagined and impeccably told
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)
All stars
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As someone with Huguenot heritage I love this series and this is the best yet. Superb narration. I have since read the book and again very accessible and readable plus a LGBTQ theme

Wonderful story and narration

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I have waited on tenterhooks for each book in the trilogy, and none of them have disappointed- except by ending!
Fantastic book! Loved every minute!

Sad it was the last of the trilogy!

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A wonderful book, I could not stop listening. A superb trilogy of love and loyalty, adventure, endurance and strong women way ahead of their time. This third of the trilogy did not disappoint, I loved it!

Wonderful

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I have read all the books in this series and loved everyone.
waiting for the next. The reader is excellent.

brilliant

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Great series. Now researching next book in the saga. Can't wait. Need to know what happened.

I'm really hooked

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