After the success of the Aardman movie The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, the pirates return in the absurdly wonderful and brilliantly hilarious The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics
Gideon Defoe was born in 1975 and lives in London. He is the author of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, which has been made into a stop-motion animation film by Sony/Aardman, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon. www.gideondefoe.com @gideondefoe
Gideon Defoe definitively puts the "Ho ho!" - and indeed, the "Yo!"
- into pirating
*Caitlin Moran*
‘Very funny, very silly and highly original'
*Esquire*
‘Silly, charming, unique and hilarious all at once'
*Chris Addison*
‘Hilarious. Destined to become a classic of pirate comic
fiction'
*Eric Idle*
Little slabs of super-concentrated funny
*Andy Riley*
‘Enid Blyton might have written Pirates! after a night in an opium
den'
*Publishers Weekly*
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