The North Water: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

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DESCRIPTION : 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 201 7 --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 : ISBN : 9781471151262 BY (AUTHOR) McGuire, Ian PUBLISHER : Simon & Schuster Ltd PUBLICATION DATE : January 26, 2017 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Scribner UK LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 198 mm x 130 mm PRODUCT SAFETY : EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more