Book description
Think of the fortune waiting for you.
July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver's daughter,
Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers.
The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the ocean odyssey
soon gives way to terror as the
Nightingale
reaches its destination.
Treasure Isla
nd is not uninhabited as it once was.
Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He began his career teaching English
at the University of Hull. He has also been Editor of the
Poetry Review
, Editorial Director of Chatto & Windus, Poet Laureate, co-founded
the Poetry Archive and was knighted for his services to literature in
2009. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway,
University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and lives in London.
