Running Close to the Wind: A queer pirate fantasy adventure full of magic and mayhem

In this queer pirate adventure, Avra Helvaçi and Captain Teveri az-Haffar must work together to find a buyer for a secret that could make them all wealthy and legendary, but they face challenges along the way, including sea serpent breeding season and a new Arashti ambassador to the Isles of Lost Souls.

Format: Hardback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Our Flag Means Death meets Six of Crows in this queer pirate adventure from the author of A Taste of Gold and Iron. 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, a former field agent of the Arashti 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 Arashti 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

Weight: 680g
Dimension: 242 x 160 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529099706