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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Most enjoyable, and a reasonable conclusion to the story after the two books in this omnibus. But I suspect there's more. I shall probably get them if there is.
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That was a prequel mini-series to Peter Morwood's Alban Saga, which is gradually being reprinted by Venture Press (they seem to be up to one book so far on their
author page for him, out of the quartet listed over at
ISFDB).
As for me, currently juggling between a batch of books due at the library Real Soon Now (which, sadly, is basically how I get the impetus to actually read things these days), and switching between two Arctic-exploration themed titles that have to be returned this weekend.
The fiction title is Swedish novelist
Jan Wallentin's
Strindberg's Star, which is one of those hidden historical clues leading to adventure conspiracy thriller books, which is actually vaguely based on a real-life doomed North Pole expedition involving balloons (
Wikipedia).
And the thematically accompanying non-fiction book, which the library perhaps ironically plastered with a cheerful “Summer Reading” sticker,
James Raffan's
Circling the Midnight Sun: Culture and Change in the Invisible Arctic, about more modern-day Arctic travel, doesn't actually go to the North Pole, but has a nice spread of visited countries (extensive sections on Canada, which was an added draw for me, alongside the usual Nordic countries and Russia, etc.).