We don’t want to speak too soon and, of course, we don’t like to play favourites, but Wild Dark Shore might just be the best book you read all year. 

Charlotte McConaghy has an incredible ability to drop you into the most unlikely of places, directing your attention to pockets of humanity and our natural world before turning everything you know on its head and leaving you speechless. 

In Wild Dark Shore, a woman washes up alive on the beach of a remote island near Antarctica. Who is she? Why is she here? How did she get here? The caretakers of the island – Dominic Salt and his young family – are determined to find the answers. But uncovering her secrets might just mean they’ll need to surrender some of their own.  

As the layers get pulled back, we challenge you not to get utterly attached to the Salt family as you’re shaken by their experiences. 

Be prepared to share this book with everyone you know – it’s that kind of story.