![]() ![]() No one has set foot on Everland since, but Decker, Jess and Brix are as eager in 2012 to sign up for a field trip as Napps, Millet-Bass and Dinners were a century before. When the rest of the crew eventually managed to land on Everland, they found a frostbitten Dinners on the point of death sheltering under an upturned boat: it was obvious to all what must have happened. They know about the callousness of Napps, leader of the three, who with Millet-Bass, an uncomplicated ox of a man, abandoned poor Dinners when supplies were running low and bad weather made rescue look impossible. The scientists of 2012 know all about the disastrous first voyage: it's been immortalised by the captain's diaries and a classic film they regularly show on movie nights in the comfortably temperature-controlled Antarctic base. In both time schemes, three people are chosen from among their fellow explorers to land on a tiny island – a lump of rock named Everland in honour of John Evelyn, the man bankrolling the 1912 expedition. A fine-art graduate, she brings the same high-concept sensibility and visual flair to her second book, which follow two Antarctic expeditions set a century apart. ![]() ![]() I n her debut novel Mr Chartwell, Rebecca Hunt took the "black dog" of depression that hounded Winston Churchill and embodied it as a gigantic, slavering canine that divides its time between persecuting the retired prime minister and drinking gin and tonic from a watering can. ![]()
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