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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Sanctuary Line
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8648-9 (0-7710-8648-2)
June 7, 2011 | $22.00
From the #1 national bestselling author of Away, The Stone Carvers, and A Map of Glass, Sanctuary Line is the eagerly anticipated new novel by Jane Urquhart.
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8648-9 (0-7710-8648-2)
June 7, 2011 | $22.00
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From the #1 national bestselling author of Away, The Stone Carvers, and A Map of Glass, Sanctuary Line is the eagerly anticipated new novel by Jane Urquhart.
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past...
Changing Heaven
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-8629-8 (0-7710-8629-6)
May 3, 2011 | $21.00
Two worlds are intertwined in this hauntingly beautiful story as it moves from Toronto to the English moors and to Venice, Italy. The time frame shifts between present and past, linking the lives of a young Brontë scholar (a woman in the throes of a troubled love affair), a turn-of-the-century female...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-8629-8 (0-7710-8629-6)
May 3, 2011 | $21.00
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Two worlds are intertwined in this hauntingly beautiful story as it moves from Toronto to the English moors and to Venice, Italy. The time frame shifts between present and past, linking the lives of a young Brontë scholar (a woman in the throes of a troubled love affair), a turn-of-the-century female...
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Storm Glass
Trade Paperback | 184 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8623-6 (0-7710-8623-7)
May 3, 2011 | $18.99
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
978-0-7710-8623-6 (0-7710-8623-7)
May 3, 2011 | $18.99
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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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eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Underpainter
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8624-3 (0-7710-8624-5)
May 3, 2011 | $21.00
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
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8624-3 (0-7710-8624-5)
May 3, 2011 | $21.00
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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...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Whirlpool
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8627-4 (0-7710-8627-X)
May 3, 2011 | $21.00
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...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8627-4 (0-7710-8627-X)
May 3, 2011 | $21.00
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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...
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction
978-1-55199-545-8 (1-55199-545-X)
December 10, 2010 | $11.95
The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction
978-1-55199-545-8 (1-55199-545-X)
December 10, 2010 | $11.95
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The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the...
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Away
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-1-55199-423-9 (1-55199-423-2)
October 29, 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
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-1-55199-423-9 (1-55199-423-2)
October 29, 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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The Stone Carvers
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-1-55199-427-7 (1-55199-427-5)
October 29, 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
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-1-55199-427-7 (1-55199-427-5)
October 29, 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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trade paperback.
A Map of Glass
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-1-55199-425-3 (1-55199-425-9)
October 22, 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
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-1-55199-425-3 (1-55199-425-9)
October 22, 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...
Also available as a
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
The Whirlpool
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-430-7 (1-55199-430-5)
September 3, 2010 | $21.00
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...
Written by Jane Urquhart
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-430-7 (1-55199-430-5)
September 3, 2010 | $21.00
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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...
Sanctuary Line
Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8646-5 (0-7710-8646-6)
August 31, 2010 | $29.99
From the #1 national bestselling author of Away, The Stone Carvers, and A Map of Glass, Sanctuary Line is the eagerly anticipated new novel by Jane Urquhart.
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past...
Written by Jane Urquhart
Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8646-5 (0-7710-8646-6)
August 31, 2010 | $29.99
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From the #1 national bestselling author of Away, The Stone Carvers, and A Map of Glass, Sanctuary Line is the eagerly anticipated new novel by Jane Urquhart.
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Sanctuary Line
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8647-2 (0-7710-8647-4)
August 31, 2010 | $22.00
From the #1 national bestselling author of Away, The Stone Carvers, and A Map of Glass, Sanctuary Line is the eagerly anticipated new novel by Jane Urquhart.
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past...
Written by Jane Urquhart
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8647-2 (0-7710-8647-4)
August 31, 2010 | $22.00
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From the #1 national bestselling author of Away, The Stone Carvers, and A Map of Glass, Sanctuary Line is the eagerly anticipated new novel by Jane Urquhart.
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Changing Heaven
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-1-55199-424-6 (1-55199-424-0)
August 27, 2010 | $21.00
Two worlds are intertwined in this hauntingly beautiful story as it moves from Toronto to the English moors and to Venice, Italy. The time frame shifts between present and past, linking the lives of a young Brontë scholar (a woman in the throes of a troubled love affair), a turn-of-the-century female...
Written by Jane Urquhart
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-1-55199-424-6 (1-55199-424-0)
August 27, 2010 | $21.00
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Two worlds are intertwined in this hauntingly beautiful story as it moves from Toronto to the English moors and to Venice, Italy. The time frame shifts between present and past, linking the lives of a young Brontë scholar (a woman in the throes of a troubled love affair), a turn-of-the-century female...
Also available as a
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
Some Other Garden
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-1-55199-426-0 (1-55199-426-7)
August 27, 2010 | $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
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-1-55199-426-0 (1-55199-426-7)
August 27, 2010 | $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...
Also available as a
hardcover.
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 | $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
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-428-4 (1-55199-428-3)
August 27, 2010 | $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 a
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
