Don Gutteridge: 26 books

PRAISE FOR DON GUTTERIDGE’S POETRY: "God’s Oddities by author and poet Don Gutteridge is a collection of poetry that combines life-long lasting visuals with the most palpable of emotions. Three of the specific lines that demonstrate this strong capability are on page seven - “like the tangible...

Praise for Don Gutteridge’s poetry: The Sands of Canatara:"Gutteridge has a divine gift; he crafts visions with an elegant ease, splashing colors on the canvas of the mind’s eye and recreating the past so vividly it argues for the concept of time standing still. Each poem is a treat, a...

"The poems in this collection span the decades of the poet’s existence, beginning with his childhood in the small village of Point Edward, Ontario. The poems celebrating his youth are filled with contrasts; images of the endless sands of the beach at Canatara that are “svelte and summering as/seven...

Don Gutteridge’s collections of poetry celebrate the poet’s childhood in Point Edward, the small town nestled under that yawning bridge teeming with cars dashing to places only dreamed about by those young villagers. One gets to know the wiles of the local fish and the best fishing places, and...

In the midst of the Great Depression, the townsfolk of Port Eddy are looking forward to the annual diversion: a horseshoe tournament against nearby Petroleum City. When a ringer, a hotshot outsider illegally brought in to help the City win the contest, is murdered, Constable Stan Garrett, the recently...

Praise for Don Gutteridge’s Poetry: "There is no doubt the poems collected in this svelte volume have been memorially ‘lived in’; they must negotiate a world with – and without – words. Gutteridge’s poetic offerings do not rely on complex conceptual acrobatics, but are seemingly...

Another exciting installment in Don Gutteridge’s action-packed Marc Edwards mysteries series, in which the hero must rush to solve one murder for the sake of his country. It is July of 1838, and an uneasy peace hangs over Upper and Lower Canada. The provinces have suffered two rebellions,...

Welcome to The Dark Side, a collection of excerpts from some of Simon & Schuster Canada’s most terrifying, mysterious, and suspenseful novels. From Nick Cutter’s old-school thriller, The Troop, to Kathy Reichs’ internationally bestselling Bones series, these stories will leave you trembling. The...

Now You Are Gone For Anne, in loving memory When lilacs bloom again in all their lilting loveliness, I’ll think of you when daffodils dazzle and tulips tantalize, for there has always been something of the Spring in you with its perpetual budding of hope and happiness, even as our years lengthened, and...

Long, dramatic narrative poems like Riel, Coppermine and Tecumseh were all pieces of a grand public mythology. A True History of Lambton County was more private, more personal, as were the family poems recently published in Love in the Wintertime. Summer's Idyll, a novel, is a new departure for Don...

The 1830s in Canada are the years of unrest known as The Rebellions. Upper Canada and Lower Canada (modern-day Ontario and Quebec) are at odds, and the country is divided. Marc Edwards, Lieutenant-turned-Barrister, and his former police colleague, Constable Horatio Cobb, band together to solve crimes...

Stubborn Pilgrimage traces both the development of new teaching methods (what I call the post-Diltzian paradigm) and the resistance of English teachers to the serial attempts to have their programme hijacked by well-meaning psychologists and sociologists and a Ministry of Education increasingly in...

Lily Fairchild is a novel about a remarkable woman, born in the backwoods of Lambton County, Ontario in 1840. Lily’s struggle to survive and grow and discover her place in the scheme of things is complicated not only by the ordinary travail of pioneer living but by the impact of historical events...

Lurid gossip surrounds the distinguished barrister Dick Dougherty who fled to Toronto from New York in 1838 with his two wards. But calumny mixes with politics, and a fiery sermon by Bishop John Strachan incites his murder. Dougherty is found dead in an alley with a note pinned to his back, scrawled...