From one of our nation's most beloved and iconic authors comes a lyrical 150th birthday gift to Canada. Jane Urquhart chooses 50 Canadian objects and weaves a rich and surprising narrative that speaks to our collective experience as a nation. Each object is beautifully illustrate...
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In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane ...
A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family's complex and layered past. the narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840's to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitabl...
Set mainly in a remote area of County Kerry in the ’40s and ’50s, Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel is at once intimate and epic in scope. Tam, an English woman in her thirties, has been living in this harshly beautiful region since shortly after the war, in which she served as...
Two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County and the other in the 19th century, about loss and the transitory nature of place. Three lives intertwine in the past and the present.
This collection of 69 stories - over a century's worth of the best Canadian literature by an extraordinary array of our finest writers - has been selected and is introduced by award-winning writer Jane Urquhart.
Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, u...
Set in Kitchener before World War I, a young sculptress falls in love with a soldier.
After a tragic accident leaves Tamara alone on the most westerly tip of Ireland, she begins an affair with a charismatic meteorologist named Niall. At first her romance is filled with passionate secrecy, but when Niall's younger brother, Kieran, disappears after a bicycle race, N...
While her beloved fictional characters inhabited a world where love and community could overcome most tribulations, Lucy Maud Montgomerys own life was marked by inescapable grief and loneliness. Raised virtually as an orphan by grandparents unable to give her much affection, Mont...
Set mainly in a remote area of County Kerry, Ireland, in the 40s and 50s, "The Night Stages" explores the meaning of separation, the sorrows of fractured families, and the profound effect of home in a world where a way of life is changing. Bestseller. 2015.
"A masterful novel by the highly praised author of Away, The Underpainter tells the story of a 75-year-old American minimalist painter who creates a new series of paintings as he remembers the details of his life and of the lives of those individuals who have affected him."-- Ama...
On the northern coast of Ireland, young Mary O'Malley embraces a drowning sailor washed ashore by the tide. So begins her family saga. Fleeing the great famine, she migrates across the Atlantic, through quarantine sheds and over the inhospitable land of the Canadian Shield. He...