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The North Water: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Ian McGuire
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2017 -- Winner of the RSL Encore Award 2017 -- 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 Toibin
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471151262
SKU
V9781471151262
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Ian McGuire
Ian McGuire grew up near Hull and studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Virginia, USA. He is a founder and co-director of the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. His stories have been published in the Chicago Review, Paris Review and elsewhere, and his first novel was Incredible Bodies. The North Water is his second novel.
Reviews for The North Water: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
'A superbly compelling suspense narrative'
Irish Times 'Terrific - seamed with pitch-black humour and possessed of a momentum that's kept up to the final scene'
Daily Mail 'The North Water has exceptional power and energy'
Sunday Times 'Full of twists, turns, period detail and strong characters'
The Times 'Horrifically gripping'
Independent on Sunday 'A novel that takes us to the limits of flesh and blood. Utterly convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid and insidiously witty.'
Martin Amis 'A stunning novel that snares the reader from the outset and keeps the tightest grip until its bitter end'
Financial Times
Irish Times 'Terrific - seamed with pitch-black humour and possessed of a momentum that's kept up to the final scene'
Daily Mail 'The North Water has exceptional power and energy'
Sunday Times 'Full of twists, turns, period detail and strong characters'
The Times 'Horrifically gripping'
Independent on Sunday 'A novel that takes us to the limits of flesh and blood. Utterly convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid and insidiously witty.'
Martin Amis 'A stunning novel that snares the reader from the outset and keeps the tightest grip until its bitter end'
Financial Times