White Road
Only one knows the truth. Only one can reveal it. Only one can save them all.
Carrie, a Scottish rescue swimmer out of her depth in the High Arctic. Ross, the owner of an oil rig with a guilty conscience. Amaruq, an Inuvialuit oil-rig worker caught between two worlds.
Stranded on the Arctic ice with a starving polar bear and a half-dead stranger, Carrie’s left with nothing but deadly choices. Ross and Amaruq face their own crossroads. Lives hang on their decisions.
From the cruel Arctic to the corporate backrooms of shady Big Oil, White Road is an authentic and gripping eco-thriller of survival, battled out at the edge of everything.
Harry Whitehead
Harry Whitehead is a novelist and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing.
He has been a Wingate Scholar and was 2016-7 Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library, while researching White Road. He has a degree in Anthropology, an MSc in Medical Anthropology and a PhD in Creative Writing. He worked for many years in the film industry.
His literary debut The Cannibal Spirit (Penguin) was called ‘powerful, brave, ambitious’ (The Globe & Mail), ‘a unique work, compelling, complex, thought-provoking and impressive’ (Quill & Quire), ‘a thriller with a Joseph Conradian plot’ (The Walrus).
Harry Whitehead is a novelist and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing.
He has been a Wingate Scholar and was 2016-7 Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library, while researching White Road. He has a degree in Anthropology, an MSc in Medical Anthropology and a PhD in Creative Writing. He worked for many years in the film industry.
His literary debut The Cannibal Spirit (Penguin) was called ‘powerful, brave, ambitious’ (The Globe & Mail), ‘a unique work, compelling, complex, thought-provoking and impressive’ (Quill & Quire), ‘a thriller with a Joseph Conradian plot’ (The Walrus).
His latest novel, White Road, is a gritty eco-thriller set in the High Arctic. It will be out Autumn 2025.