Blogs in July 2020

Galore 30th July 2020

An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage...

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The Innocents 30th October 2019

A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with...

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River Thieves 29th July 2016

In his first novel, poet and short-story writer Michael Crummey reaches far into Newfoundland’s past to tell one of the colony’s most tragic stories: the extermination of the Beothuk people. Through the lives and reminiscences of some of the...

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Sweetland 5th January 2015

The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package the sole stipulation being that everyone...

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