The author of The North Water vividly captures bleak beauty and brutish appetites on an 18th-century expedition into the frozen wilds of Canada The author of The North Water vividly captures bleak beauty and brutish appetites on an 18th-century expedition into the frozen wilds of Canada I t was Ian McGuire’s second novel, The North Water , longlisted for the Booker prize in 2016 and later adapted for television , that established his reputation for savage historical noir. A professor of