The Night Ship

Jess Kidd, Canongate, £16.99

Based on the true story of the shipwrecked Batavia, , this tale weaves the worlds of two young children who live 300 years apart.

In 1628 after the death of her mother, Dutch girl Mayken with her nanny boards the vessel to the Spice Islands to join the father she has never met.

In 1989, nine-year-old Gil arrives on the Australia’s Beacon Island, known as Batavia’s Graveyard, to live with his grandad after the death of his mum and learns about the shipwreck.