C.B. BERNARD
C.B. Bernard is a novelist, writer, and inveterate storyteller who has moved cross-country six times, lived in nine states, built a boat, walked tens of thousands of miles with his dogs, and written about everything from fly fishing to wolves to maritime piracy.
After spending much of his adult life in Alaska and Oregon, he can now be found on the Rhode Island coast
with his feet in the ocean and his head in the clouds.
fiction
For readers of Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a novel about a troubled fishing guide trying to help his daughter find her way even as he loses his own—and a daughter trying to save her father from drowning.
“This is a novel of consequence."
—Coast Weekend
“An absolutely gorgeous book.” —New York Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt
on shelves now
A darkly humorous tale of a man’s brutal odyssey from Arctic Alaska through the underworld of Portland, Oregon, to save a child’s life and redeem what’s left of his own. With the soul of a detective story and a literary brain, this novel is all heart.
Nominated for the Barry Award for Best First Mystery Novel
A Deadly Pleasures Magazine Best Debut Mystery/Crime Novel 2024
NONFICTION
A first-person exploration of Alaska through the eyes of a writer and his Arctic explorer ancestors in an effort to understand life in such a vast, beautiful, and unforgiving place and how the north itself has changed with time.
Oregon Book Award finalist, Publishers Weekly Top 10 travel pick, National Geographic Top 10 Pick, Amazon No. 1 Bestseller, Bask Magazine’s top book pick for summer 2013
