{"product_id":"9781529099720","title":"Running Close to the Wind","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Rowland, Alexandra \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/08\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 480 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529099720,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur Flag Means Death meets Six of Crows in this queer pirate adventure from the author of A Taste of Gold and Iron, Alexandra Rowland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only things in their way?A calculating new Arasti ambassador to the Isles . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrother Julian, a beautiful, mysterious new member of the crew with secrets of his own . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . And the fact that they’re sailing straight into sea-serpent breeding season and almost certain doom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Uproariously funny, exquisitely witty, brimming with buckling of swashes and scuttling of butts’ – Premee Mohamed, Nebula Award-winning author of Beneath the Rising\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55513945932149,"sku":"9781529099720","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529099720.jpg?v=1750331428","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529099720","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}