The Pirates - first UK edition
by Gideon Defoe - signed
Subtitled, "In an Adventure with Scientists" this comic send-up uses
piratical cliché - but that's all seven seas away from actually being
piratically clichéd; the author's knowledge and blatant fondness for this
well-worn genre allow him to tinker with, prod at, tweakily subvert and make
funny all the things we'd expect of pirates, and without which we'd be confused,
and wonder why we were reading a pirate book in the first place!
Book has black boards with the title in gold on the spine. Cover is price-intact
at £7.99.