Roger Hubank is a novelist whose work is largely devoted to exploring risk-taking in a wilderness of one kind or another. He started climbing in the era of moleskin breeches, jammed knots and long run-outs. His first novel, North Wall , was praised by Al Alvarez as 'a genuine and moving work of imagination on a subject where true imagination is usually the one quality never found.' Hazard's Way , set in the Lake District, won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the Grand Prix at the Banff Mountain Book Festival, and a special commendation from the Royal Society of Literature. North , about a disastrous nineteenth-century American Arctic expedition, won a Special Jury Award at Banff and was hailed in The Observer as 'perhaps the first great historical novel of the twenty-first century.' Four of his novels were re-issued in the United States in 2014. A late novel, Holy Ground , set in the Cuillin against a background of the Spanish Civil War, awaits publication.