{"product_id":"9781529099720","title":"Running Close to the Wind","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Rowland, Alexandra \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eOf specific Gay interest\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 August 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Tor) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 480 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 30 | 322g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning Close to the Wind is a queer pirate adventure from Alexandra Rowland, the author of A Taste of Gold and Iron. This is Our Flag Means Death meets Six of Crows.\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":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55523137225079,"sku":"9781529099720","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781529099720.jpg?v=1753973751","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781529099720","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}