Fresh from yesterday’s interview the author of The Privateer, Danielle Thorne, returns to Bart’s Bookshelf today, to tell us about The Queen Anne’s Revenge and her legendary captain, Blackbeard

It’s a beautiful day at sea. The sun is warm, the breeze whipping through the canvas sails. You hear the spotter’s cry and look over your shoulder. [...]

3. Later, take whichever questions you like from your comments and use them in a post about each book. I’ll probably turn mine into a sort of interview-review. Link to each blogger next to that blogger’s question(s).
Before we start, here’s the book’s synopsis:
Gwyna is just a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in [...]

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While the inmates at James’ end of the cell were asleep, he began cutting the spare bed sheet into metre long strips, using the sharpened end of his toothbrush. He cut the cloth quietly, stopping now and then to make sure there wasn’t a guard spying down from the metal gantry above his head. After he’d turned the entire sheet into strips, he took three pieces at a time and plaited them together for strength.

A terrorist doesn’t let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn’t know that a kid has bugged every room in her house, cloned the hard drive on her PC, and copied all the numbers in her phone book. The kid works for CHERUB. CHERUB is not James Bond. There are no master criminals or high-tech gadgets. CHERUB kids live in the real world. They slip under adult radar and get information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. For official purposes, these children do not exist.

The world he creates is completely emersive and you almost absorb his words rather than read them, you care deeply about his “good” characters and hate deeply, at least initially his “bad” ones. Why the quote marks, around “bad” and “good”? well you really need to read the books to know why, without me spoiling it, but suffice it to say, the line between good and bad is down to your point of view.