Think of the fortune waiting for you…

July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver’s daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers.

The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the ocean odyssey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination.

Treasure Island is not uninhabited as it once was…

Like Stevenson, Motion has achieved that very difficult thing: a children's novel that works even better for adults. Look to your laurels, Rowling -- John Sutherland * The Times *
Deeply pleasing and convivial * Guardian *
Vastly entertaining * Scotsman *

Gripping

* Daily Mail *
Fascinating and richly colourful * Herald *
Silver provides a fitting sequel to Treasure Island, certainly, but also stands in its own right as a companion volume to a literary classic * Observer *
Elegant, affectionate homage to Robert Louis Stevenson … A piece of writing born of genuine love and respect for the original * The Sunday Times *
His voice is unlike any other * New Statesman *
Motion's book is sensitive and porous. It fits seamlessly into the groove left by its parent, and yet is also something that is languidly original. The potency of the story must win out: Treasure Island is 'accursed', and young Jim, too, must suffer hardship and loss. Though the book ends with a powerful affirmation, there is much uncertainty that points to more. For which I, for one, fervently hope -- Philip Womack * Literary Review *
Motion is a beautiful lyricist unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them * Guardian *

Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He began his career teaching English at the University of Hull. He has also been Editor of the Poetry Review, Editorial Director of Chatto & Windus, Poet Laureate, co-founded the Poetry Archive and was knighted for his services to literature in 2009. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.