Honorable mention this week goes to Susan Wittig Albert's latest installment in her Beatrix Potter series. I previously chose The Tale of Applebeck Orchard as a book of the week. This one is The Tale of Oak Cake Crag.
However, the pick this week is Adrian Tinniswood's Pirates of Barbary, which is a lively historical look at real-life piracy in the 1600s. Real stories of raids, captivity and escapes are peppered throughout.
Tinniswood even-handedly portrays the corsairs, privateers, and pirates. It's certainly not a swashbuckling tale of outsized adventures, but the book gives a real sense of who these men were and the impact that they had on a century of shipping and beyond.
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