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Something a bit different this month: Batavia, by Peter Fitzsimmons. If you’re looking for some summer reading that covers shipwreck, mutiny, murder, heroism, betrayal and everything in between, then this is for you.

Fitzsimmons tells the true story of the doomed maiden voyage of Dutch East India Company flagship Batavia in 1629, and the savage ordeal of its crew, stranded on a reef in the Indian Ocean.

A gripping and astonishing account of what people are capable of when they find themselves in extreme circumstances, fascinating for its historical detail and memorable for its cast of heroes, and mainly villains.

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