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THE NORTH WATER
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 |
By: |
Ian McGuire |
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Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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£6.29 |
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ISBN 10: |
1471151263 |
ISBN 13: |
9781471151262 |
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Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD |
Pub. date: |
26 January, 2017 |
Pages: |
352 |
Description: |
A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original novel, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 |
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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 |
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UK |
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Scribner UK |
Prizes: |
Short-listed for Encore Award 2017
Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016 |
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