On holiday leave from the service, Gabriel McQueen is sent into a brewing ice storm to make sure that his father’s distant neighbor, Lolly Helton, who has fallen out of contact, is safe and sound. It’s a trip that...

Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six year old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year’s sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station in Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on earth. The...

Meet Grady Service: a former Marine, renowned tracker, Conservation Officer, and the last person any errant hunter wants to cross. In Ice Hunter, the first of a series of mysteries set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Service defends his turf with the...

ONE WAY IN. NO WAY OUT. Deaf teenager goes missing in Esseberg. Mountain rescue are launching a search party but conditions hinder their efforts.V The tunnel is being kept open all night as an exception. When journalist Tuva Moodyson...

A dramatic and compelling account of survival against the odds from the golden Age of Exploration. Since its beginning, the human story has been one of exploration and survival – often against long odds. The longest odds of all...

‘We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?’ A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly...

Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro...

In September 1991,the frozen and well preserved corpse of a man is discovered, together with a stone axe and remnants of leather and fur. He had died in the early Bronze Age. Fowler, who is a journalist, provides an...

11 kilos on his back, Hape Kerkeling set out on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Any doubts disappear over the 800km or so, and he writes a delightful travelogue of his undertaking. In German.

Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky during the 1950’s. Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s beautifully written first novel revolves around Icy Sparks, an unforgettable heroine in...