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Extraordinary press coverage for Ian McGuire's new novel

24 Mar 2016

The North Water, the new novel by the Co-Director of the University's Centre for New Writing, has attracted much media attention

The North Water

A nineteenth-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.

Published by Scribner in the UK in February, The North Water has garnered extraordinary press coverage in such journals at The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Irish Times.

Hilary Mantel described The North Water as "A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world that seems to exist at the limits of the human imagination."

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The North Water was published in the US on 15 March.

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