WHITE ROAD
Literary Thriller, 288 pages
Claret Press, September 2025
**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

Agent: Isobel Dixon
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth

Biography: Harry Whitehead is a novelist and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Leicester, where he directs the annual free literature festival, Literary Leicester. He has been a Wingate Scholar and an Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library. Before academia, he lived for several years in the Far East before returning to the UK to work in the film business as an assistant director, location manager and, latterly, a story consultant.

THE CANNIBAL SPIRIT
Literary Fiction, 306 pages
Penguin Canada - September 2011
The year is 1900. George Hunt has a white father and a native mother. He is also an assistant to the famous anthropologists Franz Boas and a collector of native artefacts for the white man’s museums. Hunt inhabits both worlds but can find no peace in either. Based on a true story.

His debut novel, THE CANNIBAL SPIRIT (Penguin Canada) is a work of literary historical fiction set among the First Peoples of Canada at the turn of the twentieth century. The product of some fifteen years of historical and ethnographic research, it was reviewed as ‘powerful, brave, ambitious’ (The Globe and Mail), ‘a thriller with a Joseph Conradian plot’ (The Walrus), ‘a unique work, compelling, complex, thought-provoking and impressive’ (Quill and Quire).

His second novel, WHITE ROAD, a literary thriller set in the High Arctic, is published in September 2025 by Claret Press and WF Howes.