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This gripping, disconcerting debut novel is based on the true story of the ship that saw the distress signals of the doomed Titanic but unfathomably failed to go to the aid of the drowning passengers.

About the Author

David Dyer is an English teacher at a secondary school in Sydney, who previously trained as a ship's officer at the Australian Maritime College and worked as a lawyer for the firm that represented The Titanic in 1912. In 2009 he was awarded a Commonwealth Government scholarship to write The Midnight Watch, as part of a Creative Arts Doctorate that was conferred in 2013. The Midnight Watch is his first novel.