The Colony of Good Hope

'A superb novel . . . A hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge' - Sunday Times , Books of the Year In the tradition of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness , an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light. 1728: The Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colon