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Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates. Their rum-drunk exploits and high-seas violence never fail to delight. Now in a brand new series collection, The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told includes many of the very best pirate yarns ever created on history’s most debaucherous scalawags. Anyone who loves a good story full of excitement, adventure, thrills, and laughs will find this collection irresistible.

For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons - for battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown, and for escape from the mundane. We have always had a primal relationship with the sea - even those who have never been to sea remain fascinated by the seafaring life and tales of salty adventure. Now in a brand–new series collection, The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told brings together such diverse authors as Charles Dickens, Jack London, John Masefield, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, and dozens more.

Discover a thrilling collection of maritime tales from Frank Thomas Bullen, a master of nautical fiction and a real-life seaman. Originally published in 1901, Deep-Sea Plunderings captures the raw mystery, romance, and peril of life upon the open ocean. From intense whaling expeditions and...

‘Pitch perfect’ TRACY REES ‘A stunning debut’ LIZ FENWICK The Cornish cost. A handsome smuggler. A love story for the ages. Isabel has always been a woman of mystery. As a child of four, she appeared on the Cornish shore, soaking wet, unable to speak. The villagers believed she was...

Bloomsbury presents Everything to the Sea by Alicia Upano, read by Barrie Kealoha ‘The kind of talent that appears once in a generation’ JUNOT DIAZ ‘A story that tests and redefines every form of loyalty: to love, to family, to land, to the future’ AUBE REY LESCURE ‘A survival story, a...

Chickamauga Antietam Charles, otherwise known as Chick, is an old man living in a homeless shelter. Lame and destitute, his only valuables are cached away in a secret pocket of his ancient pea coat. It is Christmas. He awakes to find he has been given a present by a stranger who passed through in the wee hours of the morning. The gift is a lottery ticket. And when it hits, the others want him to share the wealth, but he has only one goal, and it obsesses him to his very marrow. He must go to Spain. To retrieve what was taken from him so many years ago....

Call the Wind Mariah is a futuristic Odyssey in the face of catastrophic climate change. It’s November 2055. Climate change has dramatically altered the planet. Coastal cities have been inundated by a dramatic ten-foot rise in sea level, far greater and far sooner than the climate models had anticipated. Large inland cities have become islands of civilization in a sea of anarchy caused by mass migrations and armed conflicts. Corey Wells’ ticket out of the madness into which his country has descended is a 45-foot sailing catamaran named Mariah.

A collection of eight ingenious short stories following Inspector Montalbano’s investigations into Sicily’s murky underworld, all served with Camilleri’s trademark wit, and Montalbano’s typical appetite. Featuring stories adapted for BBC4’s Inspector Montalbano, this is the perfect...

A traitorous pirate lord. A bounty hunter with a score to settle. And an epic treasure that will grant them both the freedom they desire . . . unless they destroy each other first. Rowenya Stone is captain of the once-fearsome pirate ship, the Trinity. Bound to her father’s old debts, Rowenya...

Eighty-year-old Sakaye Hatashita's life as he knows it is over. His wife, Shizuko, is dead, and his bold promise to return her ashes from California to her family in Japan is unfulfilled. With his honor at stake, he vows to sail alone halfway around the world if it is the last thing he does. But demons from his past, passing ships the size of skyscrapers, and one of the worst cyclone seasons in recorded history will make the Pacific far from welcoming. But first, he will need to buy a boat and remarkably learn how to sail.

What if the most dangerous predator on Earth isn't human - and it’s finally stopped hiding?" A leisurely cliffside walk in Devonshire spirals into a primal fight for survival when Mr. Fison witnesses a scene of alien gore. Those aren't sea birds scavenging on the rocks; they are the...

From the enchanted depths of the sea to the jeweled halls of a Persian king, The Story of Gulnare of the Sea unfolds as a tale of beauty, mystery, and destiny. When a childless king encounters a silent, otherworldly maiden of extraordinary grace, he is captivated—yet she speaks not a single word. For a year she remains a mystery, her silence as deep as the ocean beyond his palace walls. But when she finally reveals her voice, she unveils a truth far greater than he could have imagined: she is Gulnare, a princess of the sea, bound between two worlds.

When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari’s small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat’s remarkable and often punish­ing five-year...

Before a prophecy swept him across the seas, Oskar Dahlin was a mortal among corrupt rulers. He lived with one mandate: protect the innocent. Be their sword, and if necessary, their vengeance. He was a Blade of the Assassin’s Guild, trained in body and mind. What the royals did behind their high walls was not his concern unless and until their actions spilled into his streets. Or a young queen steals his heart.

Stephen Melillo unveils a mesmerizing narrative that takes you beyond the pages of Melville's classic masterpiece, Moby Dick. Who was Captain Ahab before he became consumed by his relentless pursuit of the white whale? What passions stirred in his heart? What trials sculpted his soul into the iconic figure we think we know? Beneath the surface of Ahab's obsession lies a heart that once beat for life's grandeur.

Born of the Sea follows Anne as she cross-dresses, drinks, and fights her way through the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. But Anne's life is changed forever when she meets Mary Read, plotting a new course on a voyage of self-discovery.

Jack London's South Sea Tales is a collection of eight short stories set in the South Pacific. The stories include: "The House of Mapuhi", "The Whale Tooth", "Mauki", "Yah! Yah! Yah!", "The Heathen", "The Terrible Solomons", "The Inevitable White Man", and "The Seed of McCoy".