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Running Close to the Wind

By (author) Alexandra Rowland





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Running Close to the Wind is a queer pirate adventure from Alexandra Rowland, the author of A Taste of Gold and Iron. This is Our Flag Means Death meets Six of Crows. ‘Come for the irrepressible gremlin of a narrator, stay for the plot-relevant cake competitions! A whip-smart, hilarious and exuberant high seas romp’ – Freya Marske, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Marvellous Light Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Arasti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world – and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must work with his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haffar. Together, they will have to risk journeying to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls. The only things in their way? A calculating new Arasti ambassador to the Isles . . . Brother Julian, a beautiful, mysterious new member of the crew with secrets of his own . . . . . . And the fact that they’re sailing straight into sea-serpent breeding season and almost certain doom. But if they can find a way to survive and sell the secret on the black market, they’ll all be as wealthy as kings – and, more importantly, they’ll be legends . . . ‘Uproariously funny, exquisitely witty, brimming with buckling of swashes and scuttling of butts’ – Premee Mohamed, Nebula Award-winning author of Beneath the Rising

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Publisher | Pan Macmillan
Published date | 7 Aug 2025
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 480
Dimensions | 198 x 131 x 30mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 320g
ISBN | 978-1-5290-9972-0
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