Minds of Winter

Author : Ed O Loughlin

Hardback

Published : Thursday 25 August 2016

ISBN : 9781780871721

Price : €19.88

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Minds of Winter

by Ed O Loughlin

Hardback

25 Aug 2016

HISTORY
>> Polar Regions

€19.88

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The new novel from the Man Booker longlistee, in which a meeting between two strangers sheds light on the greatest unsolved mystery of polar exploration.

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017. 'Ed O'Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel' Ron Rash 'A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers . . . stupendously good' Australian 'Vastly entertaining' Sunday Times FROM BOOKER-LONGLISTED ED O'LOUGHLIN: THE PERFECT NOVEL FOR FANS OF AMY SACKVILLE'S THE STILL POINT AND FRANCIS SPUFFORD'S I MAY BE SOME TIME. It begins with a chance encounter at the top of the world. Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada - 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle - searching for answers about a family member: Nelson for his estranged older brother, Fay for her disappeared grandfather. They soon learn that these two men have an unexpected link - a hidden share in one of the greatest enduring mysteries of polar exploration.

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