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The Ice

The Ice
  • Author(s): Laline Paull
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): A few years in the future

It’s the day after tomorrow and the Arctic sea ice has melted. While global business carves up the new frontier, cruise ships race each other to ever-rarer wildlife sightings. The passengers of the Vanir have come seeking a polar...

Dark Matter

Dark Matter
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he’s offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it....

The Girl Without Skin

The Girl Without Skin
  • Author(s): Mads Peder Nordbo
  • Location(s): Greenland
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s and present

When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered in a crevasse out on the edge of an ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent to cover the story. The next day the mummy is gone, and the body of the...

The North Water

The North Water
  • Author(s): Ian McGuire
  • Location(s): Arctic, Greenland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner...

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord
  • Author(s): Kim Leine
  • Location(s): Greenland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. A rugged outpost battered by unremittingly harsh winters, Sukkertoppen is simmering with the threat of dissent; natives...

An African in Greenland

An African in Greenland
  • Author(s): Kpomassie Tete-Michel
  • Location(s): Greenland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland-and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly...

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
  • Author(s): Peter Høeg
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, Greenland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

An exciting and intricate plot, at the centre Smilla Jasperson is a well drawn character. A complex plot, with a tremendous feeling of ice and snow.

The Sea Road

The Sea Road
  • Author(s): Margaret Elphinstone
  • Location(s): Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 11th Century

A haunting, compelling historical novel, “The Sea Road” is a daring re-telling of the 11th-century Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman. Gudrid lives at the remote edge of the known world, in...

The Surfacing

The Surfacing
  • Author(s): Cormac James
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

THE SURFACING is set largely on board a ship in the 1850s, searching for Franklin’s lost expedition. It’s a challenging and dangerous endeavour in a very male world – that is until Morgan, the second-in-command of the Impetus, realises...

The Transcendent Tide

The Transcendent Tide
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Greenland, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been eighteen months since the Enceladons escaped the clutches of an American military determined to exterminate the peaceful alien creatures. Lennox and Vonnie have been lying low in the Scottish Highlands, Ava has been caring for her young...

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