Into White Silence by Anthony Eaton

The SS Loongana steamed slowly up the Derwent River towards it’s berth at Salamanca Warf, and Lieutenant (retired) William Downes, a young man distinguished by his service in France during the Great War, leaned on the portside rail, watching the city of Hobart slip slowly past the hazy, late-afternoon light.

It is 1922 and Lieutenant Downes is travelling aboard the Raven, a polar vessel destined for the South Pole. As the ship sails closer towards Antarctica is hits brutal storms and vital crew members are lost. Mutiny is in the air, made worse when the ship becomes trapped in thick ice. Downes chronicles the crew’s descent into madness, the mysterious disappearances and the terrible deaths. But will he survive?

Into White Silence is longlisted for the Gold Inky