A frontier story set in the 19th century, about a whaling ship setting sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard. From the author of }Incredible Bodies{, and the co-director of the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing, who has worked with Martin Amis, Colm Toibin and Jeanette Winterson. 'A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world...' Hilary Mantel