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by Tanith Lee (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Children's Books (12 Feb 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340854464
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340854464
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 13 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 790,431 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Presented most handsomely by the notorious author Tanith Lee, Piratica is her daring tale of a single-girl's adventure upon the high seas and is most definitely not what it says it is on the tin--this is a novel of great invention and bountiful surprises.

Taking place in a parallel world in the year Seventeen-Twelvety (approximately 1802) this almost historical adventure begins with 16-year-old Miss Artemesia Fitz-Willoughby Weatherhouse, or Art for short, coming to her senses in her select but dreary prison that is the Angels Academy for Young Ladies. She longs for the life her deceased mother Molly led and is determined to break out and rebel against her uneasy aristocratic father. Molly Faith was a notorious female pirate who coined and earned the feared nickname Piratica.

Taking a rare chance to escape her educational shackles, Art makes for Ports Mouth and the unruly inn where her mother's old shipmates congregate to drown their sorrows. Taking on her mother's mantle and battle cry--Art urges them to resurrect their former seafaring career of blaggardry and to strike out for further fame and infamy. It is at this juncture that Art learns a fearful and totally jaw-dropping truth about her infamous mother's past life. It's a twist so unexpectedly twisty that it may well be the twistiest turn a story has ever embarked upon.

This is a novel about which the reader cannot help but feel an enormous sense of fun and warmth. The author's editorial tongue is firmly in cheek throughout, but its rip-roaring spirited and pleasurable nevertheless. Suitable for readers aged 12 and over. --John McLay



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A hilarious romp. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Vivid, lush, filmic, funny, 26 Nov 2004
This review is from: Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas (Paperback)
I got this book for my 9 year old daughter. She just couldn't get into it. On the other hand, I - and all of my friends on whom I've forced it - have loved it. I read it on a plane and kept having to apologise to the person sitting next to me because I was laughing so much. Much of humour lies in the way that Lee plays with genre and absurdity. The language is gloriously rich, too - although I found that if you try to read it aloud, it lacks rhythm and loses some of its magic. The prose is wonderfully visual, and the overall effect is very filmic - partly because our images of pirates are so rooted in swashbuckling movies, and partly because Lee is consciously drawing on those images. I think it flags a little towards the end, and the mystery about Mr Phoenix turns out to be a little prosaic when All Is Revealed, but the ending is just as it should be.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars By the Whale's Knitting, this is brilliant, 17 Jul 2004
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No, I'm not a kid. Why should kids have all the fun? This is the best novel I have read all year - and I spent a lot of the year judging an adult litfic competition. I didn't come across anything remotely as readable or as moving. It is funny, and rollicking, and sometimes farcical - nowhere more than in an execution scene which is a homage to Cat Ballou. But it's also a serious novel about truth and fiction and the blurred boundary between the two. "The truth" is not always the same as "what really happened", as Art finds. She keeps thinking she's got to the bottom of her mother's story but she doesn't, not until very near the end.

I wanted books like this, and heroines like this, when I was young.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A real treasure!, 6 May 2004
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This is an intriguing and well-crafted book, neatly divided into three acts, each divided into three parts which are each sub-divided into three chapters. The setting is a world similar to our own but with some subtle differences, not least of which is that the majority of pirate captains and highwaymen appear to be young girls!

The story begins with the 16 year-old heroine, Artemisia or Art for short, suddenly recovering lost memories of her childhood; a childhood spent at sea with her mother, pirate captain Molly Faith. She leaves her prim, suffocating girls' school behind and sets off to find her mother's old crew and embark on an adventure of her own. However, her recently retrieved memories are not quite as reliable as she thinks!

My admiration for this book grew as I read it. For the first three or four chapters (setting scenes, meeting characters) I was only mildly interested, but once Art discovers the truth about her memories, I was hooked. By the end of the second part, I came to regard the characters, (Art, each of the pirates ... even the parrot), with affection, really caring about what happened to them. By the third part, the adventure becomes a real page-turner. I should warn you that the Amazon synopsis bears little resemblance to the book's actual plot; for example, there is NO character called Belladora Fan!

Art isn't simply the standard feisty heroine, but an oddly noble girl, determined to follow her star ... whilst continually bewildered by enigmatic (possibly false) memories of her childhood. Her romantic interest, Felix, is also no stereotype ... and for much of the book it is difficult to understand his true motives for joining the pirates. The book's conclusion is both dramatic and satisfying, holding your attention until the very last page.

There have been several pirate stories published of late ... also the film, 'Pirates of the Caribbean'; however, this is without doubt my favourite. Although more fantastical and less grittily realistic than some books, it cleverly manages to convey a much more convincing flavour of life at sea. The language is a pleasure to read ... and I know I will return to this book in a year or two, and reread it for the writing alone.

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This book, I must declare is the best in the world!!!!!! Read it, and your life shall change 4ever!!!!!

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Published on 8 Nov 2007 by Kestral Cleopatra

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant - so good I was up at three in the morning on the day before an exam reading it!!
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Published on 22 Jun 2007 by Book Boffin

4.0 out of 5 stars Good in a we - dont - kill - anyone - but - survive - everything - kinda way
Piratica is definately worth reading and i will buy the sequel but some things were not believeable like the fact that the girl Art thought she was at sea but for most of her... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great and Fun Read
"Piratica" is my favorite book, and I was incredibly excited when I found out last year that Tanith Lee was writing a sequel. Read more
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