Description:
An authentic eco-thriller of survival, battled out at the edge of everything.
Brief description: Harry Whitehead is a novelist and director of the Centre for New Writing at the University of Leicester, where he also directs the annual free lit-fest, Literary Leicester. His first novel The Cannibal Spirit (Penguin) was called 'powerful, brave, ambitious' (The Globe & Mail), 'a unique work, compelling, complex, thought-provoking and impressive' (Quill & Quire), 'a thriller with a Joseph Conradian plot' (The Walrus). He's published short stories, reviews, essays and more in a wide variety of genres. He used to work in the film business and, before that, lived in the Far East.
Review Quotes:
"Capitalism is melting as well as the ice, and both get more dangerous and they die."
Mat Cohen, Morning Star newspaper
"A gripping, page-turning eco-thriller, part oil rig drama and part survival story."
Kevan Manwaring, author/editor of Writing Eco-Fiction and Heavy Weather
"An intelligent, urgent, white-knuckle ride through the brutal Canadian Arctic."
Liz Jensen, bestselling author of The Rapture and The Uninvited
"A singular, beautifully integrated achievement."
Mark Cocker, naturalist and author of One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life
"Entertains while it unsettles."
Dr Paul Taylor-McCartney, writer, researcher, lecturer