Doubleday Canada: 111 books
Flames Across the Border
1813-1814
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nineteenth...
Loyalists and Layabouts
The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Marking the 225th anniversary of loyalist landings in Canada, this important and comprehensive history is essential reading on the shaping of our country.
The few hundred loyalists who gathered at Roubalet’s Tavern in New York on the night of Saturday, November 16, 1782, shared a vision of...
The Promised Land
Settling the West 1896-1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers — a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation.
My Country
The Remarkable Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Berton brings the past alive with true stories of mystery and romance, tragedy and heroism, from the piracy of Bill Johnston, scourge of the St. Lawrence, to the weird saga of Brother XII and his mystic cult on Vancouver Island.
Fifteen Days
Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most respected and eagerly read journalists. Her vivid prose, her unmistakable voice, her ability to connect emotionally with her subjects and readers,...
A Map to the Door of No Return
Notes to Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery.
Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean,...
by Aislinn Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Stay follows Abbey, a young woman from Canada now living in a village outside Galway. She falls in love with Dermot, an older Irish man, in an unconventional, affectionate but troubled relationship.
The extraordinary skill of Stay lies in its unsentimental depiction of modern Ireland. The...
The Notebooks
Interviews and New Fiction from Contempory Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
In the tradition of the Paris Review, The Notebooks is an exciting collection of original short fiction and in-depth interviews from Canada’s most celebrated and innovative young writers.
A provocative examination of the writer’s life in the twenty-first century, The Notebooks charts a...
by Paul Quarrington
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Selected as the 2008 CBC Canada Reads Winner!
"A dazzling display of fictional footwork… The author has not written just another hockey novel; he has turned hockey in a metaphor for magic." Maclean's
Percival Leary was once the King of the Ice, one of hockey's greatest heroes. Now,...
by Aislinn Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
What's Left Us is a stunning fiction debut by one of the most promising new writers in Canada. The novella and stories in these pages startle and engage the reader with their humour, warmth and grace. The novella traces one week in the life of a young, unmarried Irish woman about to give birth. The...
by David Adams Richards
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
With a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul.
The lyrical narrative of Hockey Dreams flows from Richards' boyhood games on the Miramichi to heated debates with university professors who dare to back the wrong team. It examines...
by Russell Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Russell Smith’s highly praised new novel features some typically caustic satire, alongside a deep and melancholy awareness of the force of desire in our lives. The combination of wit and perception in Muriella Pent—and its brilliant dialogue, beautiful descriptive prose, assured handling of racial...
In For a Penny, In For a Pound
The Adventures and Misadventures of a Wireless Operator in Bomber Command
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
The gripping story of the twentieth century’s greatest struggle in the modest voice of a Canadian teenager in the RAF.
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Howard Hewer dreamed of being the next Billy Bishop, of piloting Spitfires or Hurricanes over Europe. His dream was shattered when he was selected...
Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Gift of Wings
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery’s life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery – her son, maids, friends, relatives, all...