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The North Water

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK Simon & Schuster Ltd 2016Description: 336pISBN:
  • 9781471151255
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  • F/MCG
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016

A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . .
1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey, a cabin boy is discovered brutally killed, Sumner finds himself forced to act. Soon he will face an evil even greater than he had encountered at the siege of Delhi, in the shape of Henry Drax: harpooner, murderer, monster . . .

'A tour de force' Hilary Mantel
'Riveting and darkly brilliant' Colm Tóibín

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'Brilliant. A fast-paced, gripping story set in a world where "why?" is not a question and murder happens on a whim; but where a faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood and ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world'  Hilary Mantel 'This is a novel that takes us to the limits of flesh and blood. Utterly convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid, and insidiously witty,  The North Water  is a startling achievement' Martin Amis 'Raw and compulsively readable, with violence and intrigue in dirty port towns and on the high seas . . . Think  The Revenant  for the Arctic Circle'  The Millions Excerpted from The North Water by Ian McGuire All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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