The film, made by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures, will be released in the UK on 28th March 2012. The film features the voice of Hugh Grant (as Pirate Captain), Salma Hayek, Martin Freeman and, of course, Brian Blessed The first Aardman film since Flushed Away, this one of Sony's top 5 films for 2012 and will have a huge consumer marketing campaign beginning in February, including partnership deals with MacDonalds and Birds Eye Combined sales of previous editions of this book are over 17,000 copies (Nielsen BookScan)

'A timber-shivering adventure that speaks to the pirate in all of us' - Ben Schott 'A short, deliriously funny novel about incredibly stupid pirates and ham ... I've had to grow a luxuriant beard to conceal the grin that's been compromising my dignity since I read it' - Ardal O'Hanlon 'Hilarious. Destined to become a classic of pirate comic fiction' Eric Idle 'Gideon Defoe definitively puts the "Ho ho!" - and, indeed, the "Yo!" - into pirating" - Caitlin Moran

Gideon Defoe was born in 1975 and lives in London. He is also the author of The Pirates! In An Adventure with Moby Dick, The Pirates! In An Adventure with Communists, and The Pirates! In An Adventure with Napoleon. You could be forgiven for thinking he is a bit of a one-trick pony.