#TwoForTuesday: New Special Editions @katemosse @LauraSRobinson @panmacmillan @MantleBooks #TheGhostShip #KateMosse #TheSquareOfSevens #LauraShepherdRobinson #SpecialEditions #Spredges

Good morning everyone today on Two For Tuesday I’m featuring two of the beautiful new special editions I’ve bought recently.

⭐ The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse
⭐ The Square Of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

I’m a huge fan of both these authors who are both auto buys for me whenever they release new books. I did have proof copies of these but couldn’t resist these beautiful special editions as I love books with spredges! Square Of Sevens is my next read and I’m so looking forward to reading it.

These are both indie Bookshop editions and available Rossiter Books or your local indie Bookshop.

Do you have a favourite special edition that you own?

The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse

Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their love and their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is the third novel in The Joubert Family Chronicles from bestselling author Kate Mosse.

The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months, its captain – Louise Reydon-Joubert – and her courageous crew has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved during the course of their merciless raids.

But now the Ghost Ship is under attack – its hull splintered, its sails tattered and burnt, and the crew at risk of capture. But the bravest among them are not who they seem. Louise is fleeing a miscarriage of justice; her lover, Gilles Barenton, is at risk of being exposed – she is forced to masquerade as her brother. 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 queer 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. Most of all, it is a tale of defiant women in a man’s world.

The Square Of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

‘My father had spelt it out to me. Choice was a luxury I couldn’t afford. This is your story, Red. You must tell it well . . .’

A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish fortune-teller, travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient method: the Square of Sevens. When her father suddenly dies, Red becomes the ward of a gentleman scholar.

Now raised as a lady amidst the Georgian splendour of Bath, her fortune-telling is a delight to high society. But she cannot ignore the questions that gnaw at her soul: who was her mother? How did she die? And who are the mysterious enemies her father was always terrified would find him?

The pursuit of these mysteries takes her from Cornwall and Bath to London and Devon, from the rough ribaldry of the Bartholomew Fair to the grand houses of two of the most powerful families in England. And while Red’s quest brings her the possibility of great reward, it also leads into her grave danger . . .