The Last Bookaneer

Author: Matthew Pearl
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Paperback

 

On the island of Samoa, in a house perched on a cliff beneath a smouldering volcano, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. It is rumoured that this may be the author of Treasure Island?s greatest masterpiece. On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers to smuggle them to a hungry public. But a changing world means the bookaneers will soon become extinct. Two adversaries set out for the south Pacific- Pen Davenport, a tortured criminal genius haunted by his past and Belial, his nemesis. Both dream of fortune and immortality with this last and most incredible heist.The Last Bookaneer thrillingly depicts the lost world of these doomed outlaws, a tropical island with a violent destiny, a brewing colonial war and a reclusive genius directing events from high in his mountain compound.

 

About Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

(BK-9781846556203)

SKU BK-9781846556203
Barcode # 9781846556203
Brand Harvill Secker
Artist / Author Matthew Pearl
Shipping Weight 0.5200kg
Shipping Width 0.150m
Shipping Height 0.030m
Shipping Length 0.230m
Assembled Length 23.400m
Assembled Height 2.800m
Assembled Width 15.300m
Type Paperback

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