The White North Has Thy Bones : 'Chilling, thrilling and so very clever' AJ West - Dorian Ravenscroft

The White North Has Thy Bones : 'Chilling, thrilling and so very clever' AJ West - Dorian Ravenscroft

Dorian Ravenscroft

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Published 22 October 2026

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  • Pages · 368 pages, b/w map (double-page spread)
  • Publication Date · 22/10/2026
  • Genre · Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest
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Sarah Waters meets The Terror in this twisty, chilling historical polar gothic for fans of Michelle Paver and Emma Stonex. 'True Gothic: twisty, unreliable, and full of forbidden joys ... a brilliantly queer, brilliantly playful successor to The Terror' NATASHA PULLEY, bestselling author of THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREETEight years ago, HMS Melpomene met disaster on her search for the missing Franklin polar expedition. A tiny handful of survivors returned home against all odds; now, one of them is to be hanged for a murder he claims no memory of committing. Among the spectators is ambitious London newsman, Harry Lambert, obsessed by the Melpomene story and the question of what could drive a hero of the Arctic to such an end. His search for answers takes him to the door of Sidney Blakely, the survivors' charismatic leader turned Spiritualist medium - a power granted to him, he says, in the thin-veiled North. Living with him is Lieutenant Taylor who claims a darker `gift': to be a vessel for possession by spirits of the dead. Harry doesn't believe a word of it. But as the true, bloody story behind Melpomene's end unfolds, he begins to wonder. Blakely's revelations of desperate mutiny and a hierarchy out of its depth are shocking enough. But between these lines are whispers of unquiet ghosts, and more than ordinarily savage beasts. In the gaps between what is said and unsaid, what can be believed is as shifting and unstable as the ice itself. Harry knows what Melpomene's crew left in the Arctic. But what did they bring back?'Chilling, thrilling and so very clever, Ravenscroft brings the past to life with a shock of ice and a reveal you'll never forget' AJ WEST, bestselling author of THE BETRAYAL OF THOMAS TRUE'The Arctic horror of my dreams ... Keeps you guessing all the way through, if by "guessing" you mean "reading late into the night gripped with terror." This is my new obsession' HESTER STEEL, author of THE FACELESS THING WE ADORE

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