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, 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 a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester.

The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently
on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months
it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs,
manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and
France, Holland and the Canary Islands.
But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. The
stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged
for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and escape
their fate?
A sweeping and epic love story, ranging from France in 1610
to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, The
Ghost Ship is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering,
love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the
High Seas.