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Book review: Get on board for the spectacular voyage of The Ghost Ship

The third in Kate Mosse’s Joubert Family Chronicles series is a thrilling historical epic of piracy and romance

Kate Mosse: The Ghost Ship is the third novel in the author’s ongoing Huguenot diaspora epic

Kate Mosse makes me feel tired. A Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author who has published ten novels and short story collections, she is also founder-director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (originally known as the Orange Prize, which she was prompted to establish by 1991’s all-male Booker shortlist), founder of the global #WomenInHistory campaign, a visiting professor at the University of Chichester and president of the Festival of Chichester. Oh, and there’s ...