Blue Water: the Instant Times Bestseller (Laurence Jago)

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Nattrass again and again had me wondering at her skill and marvellous turn of phrase in filtering complex eighteenth-century history in a way that resonates with our own times -- S.

This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. I found this to be one of those books you keep expecting to find it's feet and give an inspirational twist or novel approach but just never does. His mission is to aid the civil servant charged with carrying a vital treaty to Congress that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French in their war against Britain.Where Black Drop dealt in political machinations and espionage, life aboard the Tankerville is fraught with very real danger and a more urgent risk to life and limb. SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD **** AN INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER ** ** A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR **'A TRULY GRIPPING READ' - GUARDIAN'FABULOUS, A DELIGHT' - S. Rose Ransom, who has the highest status permitted to women under the caste system designed by (real) Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, is busy rewriting works of literature to ensure they are in accordance with the ideals of the regime. Neuware - \*\* SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD \*\*\*\* AN INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER \*\* \*\* A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR \*\*'A TRULY GRIPPING READ' - GUARDIAN'FABULOUS, A DELIGHT' - S.

Leonora Nattrass studied eighteenth-century literature and politics, and spent ten years lecturing in English and publishing works on William Cobbett. And so begins a captivating locked-room mystery that introduces the reader to an interesting cast of characters from French fugitives to an American plantation owner to an Irish dancer with her performing bear cub (Bruin the bear is such an endearing character in the book! And of course, there are plenty of colourful new characters amongst the passengers, including two French aristocrats, an American plantation owner and an Irish actress with a dancing bear! The way the book is written in report form, from Jago and interspersed with entries from the Captain’s Log and a journalist’s articles which are being sent home, you form a clear picture of exactly the mood of the crew and passengers and the dastardly events directly as they happen. In this sequel to Black Drop, our protagonist Jago (who may - in the preceding story - have committed light treason) is onboard a mail ship bound for Philadelphia.The plot itself has obviously been really well planned out, there are plenty of red herrings along the way, but the characters are simply not fleshed out enough to make this more than a puzzle to solve. Gary and his crabby neighbour Grace – who suspects that the detectives who’ve informed him of Brendan’s death may not be police officers at all – team up as an investigative odd couple, and the plot thickens. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The reader is quickly drawn into the story and into the lives of the people on board the ship with an exciting chase across the waters. Set during a voyage from Britain to Philadelphia in 1975, we follow Mr Jago on a hunt to find the Treaty between the Brits and Americans that has gone missing aboard their ship.

Nattrass evokes a strong maritime atmosphere as well as imbuing her plot with the political wrangling of the period.Peter Williams’ presence is strangely reassuring, as he quietly goes about his tasks, and we come to learn more about him. Last year, Leonora Nattrass took the historical crime fiction world by storm with her debut novel, Black Drop, which was picked as a Times Book of the Year.

A short time into their journey and still quite a distance from their first stop at Madeira, a cormorant lands upon the vessel at the height of a storm – a sure harbinger of bad luck, according to the superstitious sailors.

Not to mention the cormorant which began the voyage on the ship, much to the horror of the crew as it is a bad omen.