WHITE ROAD Launch Party

DATE: Wednesday 1st October 2025 5.30-6.30pm
VENUE: Careers Hub, David Wilson Library (opp. the café), University of Leicester Main Campus, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH

Do join me to help celebrate the launch of my new novel, White Road (Claret Press). 

I’ll offer a short talk and reading, followed by a (much longer) drinks reception, time for chat, and the chance to buy the book and have it signed. Bring £10 cash if you want a book.

Please let me know if you’re coming so I have an idea of numbers: hdw5@le.ac.uk 

If you can't make the launch, then have a look at other White Road book tour events around the country HERE

WHITE ROAD by HARRY WHITEHEAD

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.
See my publisher’s page for more information: https://www.claretpress.com/book/white-road  

ENDORSEMENTS

“A page-turning disaster drama, White Road is also a moral re-examination of the climate crisis and our species' relentless need for more hydrocarbons” Mark Cocker RSL, naturalist and author of One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth.

“An intelligent, urgent, white-knuckle ride through the brutal Canadian Arctic, this is a novel that will get you thinking, keep you guessing - and leave you reeling.’ Liz Jensen, Hollywood-adapted bestselling author of The Rapture and The Uninvited

“A splendid edge-of-the-seat thriller for our times.”   Bill McGuire, Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at UCL, and author of Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide

"An eco-thriller with a heart, Whitehead’s writing combines a page-turning thriller with the sensitivity and lyrical prose of a literary gem."   Georgina Key, award-winning author of Shiny Bits In Between and Syllables of the Briny World

“A gripping, page-turning eco-thriller, part oil rig drama and part survival story ... a thrilling ride through wild seas and melting ice that makes you glad to be reading it somewhere cosy.”    Kevan Manwaring, author of Writing Eco-Fiction & Heavy Weather

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