Cold Skin

On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War I, a steamship approaches a desolate island, far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man on his way to assume the post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the earth. But when he lands on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace—just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. His entire world for the next year is a deserted cabin, woods, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. Then night begins to fall...

Cold Skin is a fabulous dark gem of a book. In equal parts thriller, science fiction and historical fiction, it's a B-movie cum literary masterpiece that will haunt you beyond the final pages.

Praise for Cold Skin:

This debut novel is a kind of Robinson Crusoe seen through dark glass. Engrossing. For a novel that is as much a parable as it is a thriller, its impact is surprisingly emotional.'

Kirkus Reviews

'A philosophical tale wrapped in a gripping plot, a meditation on solitude, violence and what it means to be human, a great, creepy, tender read.'

Yann Martel

'A troubling, hammering but glorious novel which I read with all the self-possession of a drug addict: a sort of bastard offspring of All Quiet on the Western Front and J. G. Ballard.'

David Mitchell, author of 'Cloud Atlas'