The night ship : a novel

Kidd, Jess author.

Book Club 2023

Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island. 1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curio...

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Batavia (Ship) Fiction

Fate and fatalism Fiction

Folklore Fiction

Mothers Death Fiction

Orphans Fiction

Secrecy Fiction

Shipwrecks Fiction

Western Australia Fiction