Ian McGuire Books in Order

Temporary university lecturer Morris Gutman wants a permanent job while juggling family demands and frustrating teaching duties. His pursuit of professional security draws him into academic maneuvering and the influence of an alluring, manipulative research fellow.

Ian McGuire examines Richard Ford's fiction as a form of pragmatic realism rooted in American philosophical traditions. The study connects Ford's treatment of independence, history, and identity to debates about realism's place in contemporary literature.

Disgraced army surgeon Patrick Sumner joins an Arctic whaling expedition hoping to escape his past. Sharing the ship with brutal harpooner Henry Drax, he discovers dangers that make the frozen voyage a struggle for survival.

In Manchester in 1867, constable James O'Connor investigates Irish independence militants while trying to maintain his sobriety. The arrival of his nephew entangles his fragile new life with Stephen Doyle, a Civil War veteran committed to violent revenge.

In 1766, a Hudson Bay Company official secretly sends prospectors and Indigenous guides north in search of gold. Violence within the expedition and the approaching Arctic winter force first mate Thomas Hearn to confront choices that threaten their survival.