The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater

Ferguson, Trevor

Harper Collins Limited Canada. Ontario, Canada

The fire line: A novel

Harpercollins

True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

<p><p>When High Water Chants was first published in 1977, The Globeand Mail praised it as "... a tour de force by a writer of promise . . " Since then Trevor Ferguson has established himself as a gifted novelist, a writer of wild, poetic stories, often darkly funny, and rich in meaning and myth. With every book his reputation and audience grows. The time is right, then, for a reissue of Trevor Ferguson's debut novel. High Water Chants, a fiercely exhilarating story about the nature of guilt, innocence and the truths of the past, set against a brutal fight for an unspoiled coastal island. With one of the most disturbing and suspenseful chase scenes through a rugged wilderness that has ever been chronicled, High Water Chants is a passionate and primeval read.</p></p>

High Water Chants

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Harpercollins Canada

In the blazing, daring spirit of Cormac McCarthy, The Fire Line is an unforgettable journey in the company of Reed Kitchen, a lifelong railway worker with the uncanny ability to unearth the secrets of others. Part lunatic, part visionary, Reed traverses the roofs of moving railway cars, sleepwalks with a rifle, and stands in the path of oncoming trains. His is a mesmerizing world, filled with love, deception, and harrowing narrow escapes.

The Fire Line

United States

ONYX JOHN

Onyx John

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Kinkajou

The kinkajou

Macmillan of Canada

The River Burns

Now in paperback, The River Burns is the newest critically acclaimed novel from Trevor Ferguson, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers.The River Burns tells the story of a small town in crisis, the mistakes people make, and the courage it takes to heal a community after a horrific act of destruction.Wakefield is a small town where a unique collection of longstanding citizens has lived mostly in harmony, accepting of each other’s foibles. But underneath the picture perfect exterior a battle rages between those who wish to preserve the historic single-lane covered bridge across the river, and the loggers who want it replaced with a modern alternative. As the days pass with no change in the dispute, tensions begin to boil over, friends turn against one another, and the town seethes with potential violence.Family man and second-generation logger Denny O’Farrell has been leading the charge to modernize the bridge. When the bureaucratic route fails to produce results, Denny and his friends need a new plan of action. But local police officer Ryan O’Farrell, Denny’s brother, is very worried about exactly how much Denny and friends are willing to risk in order to win the war. Swept up into the dispute, lawyer Raine Tara-Anne Cogshill, a newcomer hiding from her big-city past, hasn’t bargained on getting caught up in a summer of violence.

Literary

Touchstone

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