The Last Bookaneer

On the island of Samoa, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, and literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers. This book depicts the lost world of these doomed outlaws.

About the author

Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries, and of The Poe Shadow and, most recently, The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Pearl
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2015
• EAN: 9781846556197
• ISBN: 978-1-84655-619-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 245 mm x 40 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature