Endeavour

Peter Moore, Chatto & Windus, £20 The full story of the ship which took Captain Cook to Botany Bay and beyond is said to be told for the first time in this epic tale. Moore’s biography is fantastically well researched but its detail-heavy musings on the minutiae surrounding the ship at times makes heavy weather of what otherwise, is mostly a really engrossing read.

OUR VERDICT 7/10