Alain Surget
Alain Surget is a writer and teacher from Metz in eastern France. He has written quite a lot of books in French for young readers, books about animals especially — and he has a great interest in pirates and adventures on the High Seas! He has also published plays and poetry.
Bratach na gCnámh
Alain Surget worked with the talented French artist Annette Marnat on the Bratach na gCnámh series — a series which has the history of the pirates in the Carribeen Sea as a background.
Éalú as Páras
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Bratach na gCnámh 1: Éalú as Páras Louise Bheag and Benjamin escape from the orphanage and head for the coast. There, they meet the infamous Black Beard, and another pirate who tells them that their father is alive, but in danger. Unexpectedly, the pair are brought aboard a ship at night, and with that they begin their adventures on the seas.
Long na dTaibhsí
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Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on board Ordóg na Feirge in search of their father, Louise Bheag and Benjamin begin to learn to become sailors. And they are made to work hard! After they come through a wild storm on the sea, the pair of them find themselves on a ghost ship - with an English ship on their tails!
Louise Bheag and Benjamin are captured by the English Navy and held in a cell in Kingston in the island of Jamaica. They are helped to escape by the pirates, Parabas and Marie Dhearg, and try to leave Jamaica to go in search of their father. But they're not the only ones who are looking for him!
Ór na Péiste
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Louise Bheag and Benjamin reach the Mexican coast, where they hear their father is searching for Inca gold But all is not what it seems! Before long the twins are in the middle of the jungle, in the city of the Feathered Serpant. And that's only to begin with!
Louise Bheag and Benjamin have crossed the Atlantic in search of their father, and finally, after sailing across the Caribeen Sea, they finally come upon their father, Captain Roc, in a Spanish prison in Veracruz, as he awaits the death sentence. They are depending on their half sister to help him escape. But can Marie Dhearg really be trusted?
Louise Bheag and Benjamin have crossed the Atlantic in search of their father, the infamous pirate Captain Roc, and finally, after sailing across the Caribeen Sea, they free their father in a Spanish prison in Veracruz. The twins are delighted to have found their father, but he leaves them to work in a tavern, An tOchtapas Dubh while he sets sail again. But the twins are getting tired of the constant working and scrubbing, and they are waiting for the ?rst opportunity to head for the open sea again!