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The critically acclaimed novel, and the greatest unsolved mystery of polar exploration.

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Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017.

´Ed O´Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel´ Ron Rash
´A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers . . . stupendously good´ Australian
´Vastly entertaining´ Sunday Times

FROM BOOKER-LONGLISTED ED O´LOUGHLIN: THE PERFECT NOVEL FOR FANS OF AMY SACKVILLE´S THE STILL POINT AND FRANCIS SPUFFORD´S I MAY BE SOME TIME.

It begins with a chance encounter at the top of the world.

Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada - 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle - searching for answers about a family member: Nelson for his estranged older brother, Fay for her disappeared grandfather. They soon learn that these two men have an unexpected link - a hidden share in one of the greatest enduring mysteries of polar exploration.

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Minds of Winter is a remarkable feat of imagination, empathy, and research. Past and present merge to convey the polar landscape´s immense mysteries, and the lives of those voyagers compelled to seek answers in its icy expanses. Ed O´Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel. Ron Rash

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O´Loughlin, Ed
Ed O´Loughlin was born in Toronto and raised in Ireland. He reported from Africa for the Irish Times, and was Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age of Melbourne. His first novel, Not Untrue & Not Unkind was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. His second novel, Toploader, was published by Quercus in 2011.

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