"This exceptional story of 18th-century female pirates packs almighty punch for 21st-century readers"
November 2021 Book of the Month
Absolutely dazzling. With exemplary research that beautifully integrates details of time and place, outstanding characterisation that rings with empathy and authenticity, and powerfully resonant themes, Celia Rees’ Pirates is a true triumph of historic fiction.
I could say what a swashbuckling adventure this is. How brilliantly the book conjures the thrills and dangers of life on the piratical high seas; what an incredible page-turner it is. And, while Pirates! certainly is all these things, it’s also much, much more. Centred around two extraordinary young women readers will truly care about, it conveys the brutality of slavery in the West Indies, and how women were but pawns in a man’s world - forced into slavery on white-owned plantations, and enslaved by marriage, too.
Nancy is the free-spirited daughter of a merchant. Minerva is a strong young woman enslaved in Jamaica. Following his death, Nancy travels to Jamaica, where she meets Minerva on her father’s plantation, and they immediately strike up a bond. As grotty circumstances escalate and close in, the young women flee the lives the world has set out for them by becoming pirates.
There’s tremendous tension, epic action, and a gorgeous sense of sisterhood (and romance, too) as the women sail the world determined to live the lives they deserve. May this reissue make its way to legions of new readers - teenagers, young adults and adults alike. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
From the author of the bestselling and award-winning Witch Child, comes another outstanding historical novel.
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From the author of the bestselling and award-winning Witch Child, comes another outstanding historical novel. When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Pirates! and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-14 years old
Pirates! features in the following genres: Adventure Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Books of the Month, Recommendations, Historical Fiction, Star Books, Featured Books for 13+ readers
Paperback. £8.09, down from the £8.99 cover price. In Stock.
Pirates! was written by Celia Rees and published by Bloomsbury YA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pirates! has 426 pages
£8.09, reduced from £8.99. In Stock.
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