Dark Matter – Michelle Paver
Jack Miller always wanted to be a physicist, but there had just been money for the University College. Now he is twenty-eight years old and when he is asked to join an Arctic expedition as communications man, he takes his chance. Their camp will be at Gruhuken, in the Nord-East corner of Spitsbergen, which means one year in an uninhabited region, including four months of complete winter-darkness. As Teddy, their medico, had to stay in London and Hugo, the glaciologist, had broken his leg during the journey and had to go back to Tromsø, only three of them, Algie, the geologist, Gus, the biologist and leader of the team, and Jack as their communications man arrive at Gruhuken the 7th August 1937. It seems that their Norwegian skipper knows more about the lonely wilderness of Gruhuken, than he wants to tell them, he just mentions that Gruhuken is a place where strange things had happened and could happen again.