Ghost Ship

The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller

'I adored it' - Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait For Me

A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is the swashbuckling third volume in Kate Mosse's enthralling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles.

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 tale of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes, piracy and hidden secrets on the high seas, The Ghost Ship is the third instalment in The Joubert Family Chronicles. The series 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

Review: 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