Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. She is the author of five internationally acclaimed novels: The Whirlpool, which received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; Changing Heaven; Away, winner of the Trillium Award and a finalist for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; The Underpainter, winner of the Governor General’s Award and a finalist for the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; The Stone Carvers, which was a finalist for The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize; and A...
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Storm Glass
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-428-4 (1-55199-428-3)
August 27, 2010 | $13.99
With stunning virtuosity, the stories in Jane Urquhart’s dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras. A woman runs away to a cottage in the English moors to escape a love affair; shards of glass reconcile a middle-aged wife to her husband’s estrangement; a...
Written by Jane Urquhart
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-428-4 (1-55199-428-3)
August 27, 2010 | $13.99
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With stunning virtuosity, the stories in Jane Urquhart’s dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras. A woman runs away to a cottage in the English moors to escape a love affair; shards of glass reconcile a middle-aged wife to her husband’s estrangement; a...
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The Underpainter
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-429-1 (1-55199-429-1)
August 27, 2010 | $13.99
The Underpainter is a novel of interwoven lives in which the world of art collides with the realm of human emotion. It is the story of Austin Fraser, an American painter now in his later years, who is haunted by memories of those whose lives most deeply touched his own, including...
Written by Jane Urquhart
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-429-1 (1-55199-429-1)
August 27, 2010 | $13.99
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The Underpainter is a novel of interwoven lives in which the world of art collides with the realm of human emotion. It is the story of Austin Fraser, an American painter now in his later years, who is haunted by memories of those whose lives most deeply touched his own, including...
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Away
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-8642-7 (0-7710-8642-3)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
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 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-8642-7 (0-7710-8642-3)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
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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 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield...
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A Map of Glass
Trade Paperback | 392 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8644-1 (0-7710-8644-X)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County, Ontario, the other in the nineteenth century on the northern shores of Lake Ontario.
Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’ house by a doctor attracted to and challenged by her withdrawn ways. Their...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 392 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8644-1 (0-7710-8644-X)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
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Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County, Ontario, the other in the nineteenth century on the northern shores of Lake Ontario.
Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’ house by a doctor attracted to and challenged by her withdrawn ways. Their...
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The Stone Carvers
Trade Paperback | 392 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8639-7 (0-7710-8639-3)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 392 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8639-7 (0-7710-8639-3)
August 24, 2010 | $21.00
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Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of...
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Deep Hollow Creek
Trade Paperback | 136 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9458-3 (0-7710-9458-2)
August 3, 2010 | $17.95
When Stella, fresh from her life in the city, arrives to take up her first teaching post in the one-room schoolhouse in a little frontier settlement in the British Columbia interior, she soon finds herself immersed in the stories she is told. Although an outsider in their midst, she sees that...
Trade Paperback | 136 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9458-3 (0-7710-9458-2)
August 3, 2010 | $17.95
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When Stella, fresh from her life in the city, arrives to take up her first teaching post in the one-room schoolhouse in a little frontier settlement in the British Columbia interior, she soon finds herself immersed in the stories she is told. Although an outsider in their midst, she sees that...
Deep Hollow Creek
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9459-0 (0-7710-9459-0)
August 3, 2010 | $6.99
When Stella, fresh from her life in the city, arrives to take up her first teaching post in the one-room schoolhouse in a little frontier settlement in the British Columbia interior, she soon finds herself immersed in the stories she is told. Although an outsider in their midst, she sees that...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9459-0 (0-7710-9459-0)
August 3, 2010 | $6.99
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When Stella, fresh from her life in the city, arrives to take up her first teaching post in the one-room schoolhouse in a little frontier settlement in the British Columbia interior, she soon finds herself immersed in the stories she is told. Although an outsider in their midst, she sees that...
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Emily Climbs
Trade Paperback | 376 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9382-1 (0-7710-9382-9)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if...
Trade Paperback | 376 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9382-1 (0-7710-9382-9)
August 4, 2009 | $19.95
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Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if...
Emily Climbs
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-293-8 (1-55199-293-0)
August 4, 2009 | $5.99
Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-293-8 (1-55199-293-0)
August 4, 2009 | $5.99
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Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if...
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A Map of Glass
Trade Paperback | 392 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8728-8 (0-7710-8728-4)
June 13, 2006 | $21.00
Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County, Ontario, the other in the nineteenth century on the northern shores of Lake Ontario.
Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’ house by a doctor attracted to and challenged by her withdrawn ways. Their...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 392 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8728-8 (0-7710-8728-4)
June 13, 2006 | $21.00
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Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County, Ontario, the other in the nineteenth century on the northern shores of Lake Ontario.
Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’ house by a doctor attracted to and challenged by her withdrawn ways. Their...
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
No Love Lost
Paperback | 432 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-7710-3481-7 (0-7710-3481-4)
April 8, 2003 | $12.95
Alice Munro is universally acknowledged as the finest short fiction writer in English. Bringing together ten incomparable stories from six different collections, No Love Lost confirms her pre-eminent status. Focusing on the many paths of falling in love, each of these stories of ordinary people reveals new truths about people as...
Paperback | 432 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-7710-3481-7 (0-7710-3481-4)
April 8, 2003 | $12.95
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Alice Munro is universally acknowledged as the finest short fiction writer in English. Bringing together ten incomparable stories from six different collections, No Love Lost confirms her pre-eminent status. Focusing on the many paths of falling in love, each of these stories of ordinary people reveals new truths about people as...
The Whirlpool
Paperback | 248 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-3476-3 (0-7710-3476-8)
May 21, 2002 | $11.95
Written in luminous prose, The Whirlpool is a haunting tale set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the summer of 1889. This is the season of reckless river stunts, a time when the undertaker’s widow is busy with funerals, her days shadowed by her young son’s curious silence. Across the street in...
Paperback | 248 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-3476-3 (0-7710-3476-8)
May 21, 2002 | $11.95
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Written in luminous prose, The Whirlpool is a haunting tale set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the summer of 1889. This is the season of reckless river stunts, a time when the undertaker’s widow is busy with funerals, her days shadowed by her young son’s curious silence. Across the street in...
The Stone Carvers
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8685-4 (0-7710-8685-7)
March 5, 2002 | $21.00
Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-0-7710-8685-4 (0-7710-8685-7)
March 5, 2002 | $21.00
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Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Some Other Garden
Hardcover | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-8669-4 (0-7710-8669-5)
September 23, 2000 | $19.99
An internationally celebrated novelist today, Jane Urquhart began her literary career as a poet. Some Other Garden brings together in a special new edition, illustrated by the beautiful photographs of Jennifer Dickson, two of Urquhart’s early poetry collections. These poems centre on another time and place while vividly evoking life in...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Hardcover | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-8669-4 (0-7710-8669-5)
September 23, 2000 | $19.99
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An internationally celebrated novelist today, Jane Urquhart began her literary career as a poet. Some Other Garden brings together in a special new edition, illustrated by the beautiful photographs of Jennifer Dickson, two of Urquhart’s early poetry collections. These poems centre on another time and place while vividly evoking life in...
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Storm Glass
Trade Paperback | 184 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8666-3 (0-7710-8666-0)
May 6, 2000 | $17.99
With stunning virtuosity, the stories in Jane Urquhart’s dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras. A woman runs away to a cottage in the English moors to escape a love affair; shards of glass reconcile a middle-aged wife to her husband’s estrangement; a...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 184 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8666-3 (0-7710-8666-0)
May 6, 2000 | $17.99
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With stunning virtuosity, the stories in Jane Urquhart’s dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras. A woman runs away to a cottage in the English moors to escape a love affair; shards of glass reconcile a middle-aged wife to her husband’s estrangement; a...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
