In 1946, into a suspicious and isolated community comes James Mercer, employed in the demolition of gun platforms. He befriends the wife and daughter of Lynch, a soldier soon to be released from the military. Lynch's return threatens violence; and in a place where nothing has changed for decades,...
The Broken Lands-a treacherous labyrinth of ice through which the fabled Northwest Passage was sought for centuries. Cabot, Frobisher, Hudson, Parry and Ross were all defeated, and the names on the maps testify to their despair: Bay of God's Mercy, the Devil's Cape, Savage Isles, and Repulse Bay....
It is 1847, northern England, and Charles Weightman has been given the unenviable task of overseeing the flooding of the Forge Valley and evicting its lingering inhabitants. Weightman is heartily resented by these locals, and he himself is increasingly unconvinced both of the wisdom of his appoin...
On the second day, he received word from Jessop confirming that the bodies of the nurses would be arriving at Morlancourt in a week’s time. Jessop also told him that Wheeler was now organizing a ceremony both to mark the nurses’ arrival and to accommodate the gathering newspapermen. It was no mor...
I had been in London for a week, staying with one of my father’s business partners. I had dealt with some business for my father, largely concerning the shares he held in the various London companies connected with his own, and everywhere I went I was treated as he would have been treated. His pa...
He left the Erebus on the 4th of May, allowing for outward and homeward journeys of a month each, with orders to turn back on the 3rd of June whatever progress he might have made. The midday temperature throughout February and March had fluctuated between minus 45 and minus 30, but during April t...