About the Book: River of Smoke
The bestselling book 2 of the Ibis trilogy now with a beautiful new jacket
September 1838. A storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and three ships-the Ibis,
the Anahita and the Redruth-and those aboard are caught in the whirlwind. River
of Smoke follows the fortunes of these men and women to the crowded harbours of
China where they struggle to cope with their losses-and, for a few, unimaginable
freedoms- in the alleys and teeming waterways of nineteenth-century Canton.
Written on the grand scale of a historical epic, River of Smoke, book two in the
Ibis trilogy, will be heralded as