Piratica II: Return to Parrot Island
core novel 2006 Piratica
Record
| First published | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.49 (750 ratings, collected 2026-10-04) |
| Page count | 320 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780525477693 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Married and ashore in a cliff-top mansion, Art Blastside, the pirate queen the ballads call Piratica, finds respectable life too tame for her spirit. When the government of Free England, at war with France, offers her a privateer's commission and her old ship, she gathers her theatrical crew again and takes to the seas to prey on French shipping, learning along the way the price of the freedom she has bought. Her enemy Little Goldie Girl is back with a vengeance, strange new faces appear, and a mysterious widow out of sailors' legend begins to haunt the waters she sails. Ghost ships, camouflaged ships, a masked avenger called the Purple Foxglove and the great sea battle of Trey Falco, this world's Trafalgar, all lie on the course back toward Parrot Island and the treasure Art left behind.
Where it sits
- Universe: Piratica
- Series: Piratica core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tanith Lee
Notes
- From the series record (Piratica): Tanith Lee's young-adult pirate trilogy set in a parallel 1800s in which England is a republic, following Art Blastside, the actress's daughter who makes herself the real pirate queen her mother only played on stage.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Piratica: position 2 of 3: previous Piratica (2004) · next Piratica III: The Family Sea (2007)
Sources
← Piratica dossier · All universes
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