Terry Deary’s Pirate Tales

Four exciting, funny pirate stories based on historical events, from the bestselling Terry Deary.

In ‘The Pirate Lord’, Tom is a cabin boy for Captain Francis Drake, on a mission to defeat the Spanish galleons and steal their plundered gold.

‘The Pirate Queen’ tells of Cassia O'Malley, the terror of the Irish sea. Her gang of sea-robbers rule the waves - until she is captured …

‘The Pirate Prisoner’ is the story of Red-legs Greaves, who has been a slave, a pirate and a rich sugar planter. Now he’s a prisoner, soon to be hanged. Can slave girl Lou save his life?

In ‘The Pirate Captain’, it is 1726, and Captain Fly is the greatest pirate to sail the seven seas - or so he says. But Jed and Arthur think he’s a bad-tempered bully. Can they stop the cruel captain?