![]() The sailors are brutal and the noble passengers untrustworthy. Along with the governor on the galleon Saardam travel his wife, their daughter and his mistress. It’s 1634: the Dutch East India Company, run by a shadowy cabal of capitalists known as “the Gentlemen 17”, has called back Batavia’s governor general to reward his colonial success by electing him one of them. ![]() A maritime mystery with fantastical overtones, it’s set on an East Indiaman during the punishing eight-month ocean journey from Batavia to Amsterdam. Stuart Turton’s second novel is a further pick’n’mix affair involving a demon, an impossible murder and a celebrated “alchemical detective” called Samuel Pipps. T he Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle– a curiously invigorating mix of genres described by its publishers as “ Gosford Park meets Inception, by way of Agatha Christie” – won the 2018 Costa award for best first novel. ![]()
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