We're delighted to be welcoming Jack Grimwood to the bookshop to discuss Arctic Sun, the latest instalment in his Tom Fox espionage thriller series. To celebrate the launch of Arctic Sun in paperback, Jack will be in conversation with Dan Richards.

6.30pm on Wednesday 13th November at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.

Buy a copy of Arctic Sun and receive free entry to the event, or choose our ticket-only option for £5 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

About Arctic Sun

Winter, 1987. The Kola Peninsula, northern Russia. A secret, underground research station is destroyed in an explosion.

Coming months after the Chernobyl disaster, the Soviets will do anything to conceal the incident. Which is bad news for British Arctic researcher Dr Amelia Blackburn who stumbles on the truth...

Lost in frozen, endless night, Kola is as difficult to survive in as it is impossible to get into or out of without the Soviets noticing. But those are Major Tom Fox’s orders: find Amelia, learn what she knows, leave.

His chances of success drop with the temperature. But Fox, a widower desperate to see his son again, has one thing the Soviets chasing him lack. A light to guide him in the darkness.

About Jack Grimwood

Jack Grimwood, a.k.a Jon Courtenay Grimwood, was born in Malta and christened in the upturned bell of a ship. He grew up in the Far East, Britain and Scandinavia. He's written for national newspapers, is a two-time winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for Le Prix Montesquieu 2015. His work has been translated into numerous languages. He is married to the journalist and novelist Sam Baker. Arctic Sun is his fourth thriller.

About Dan Richards

Dan Richards is an acclaimed non-fiction writer specialising in art, travel and adventure. His first book, Holloway – co-authored with Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Stanley Donwood – was published by Faber and became a Sunday Times bestseller. Dan’s second book, The Beechwood Airship Interviews took a journey into the creative process, headspaces and workplaces of some of Britain’s celebrated artists and craftsman including Bill Drummond, Dame Judi Dench, Jenny Saville, Manic Street Preachers and Stewart Lee.

Climbing Days is an exploration of the writing and climbing lives of Dan’s great-great-aunt and uncle, Dorothy Pilley and I. A. Richards. Using Dorothy’s 1935 mountaineering memoir as a guide, Dan climbed across Europe, ending with an ascent of the mighty Dent Blanche in the high Alps of Valais.

His latest title is Outpost, a book about far-flung shelters and eyries, isolation and wilderness. Asking what draws people to the ends of the world, Outpost features visits to Cairngorm bothies, French lighthouses, Japanese shrines, Icelandic sæluhús, and polar bears in Svalbard.

Dan’s next book, Overnight, will be published by Canongate in March 2025.