Mcclelland Stewart: 456 books
The Journey Prize Stories 31
The Best of Canada's New Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
The 31st edition of the celebrated annual fiction collection showcasing the best stories by the best new writers in Canada, all contenders for the prestigious $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.
Like the O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
“Expect pleasure. Expect delight. Expect surprise. Expect these twelve writers to emerge as some of this country’s most interesting voices.”
Anthony De Sa, Tanis Rideout, and Carrie Snyder (from their Introduction)
The celebrated annual collection showcasing the best stories by the best...
The Journey Prize Stories 29
The Best of Canada's New Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Like The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories series, The Journey Prize Stories is one of the most celebrated annual literary anthologies in North America. For almost 30 years, the anthology has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great...
The Journey Prize Stories 28
The Best of Canada's New Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The celebrated annual fiction collection showcasing the best stories by the best new writers in Canada, all contenders for the prestigious $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.
Like the O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories...
Naked in Academe
Celebrating Fifty Years of Creative Writing at UBC
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
In 1946, the poet Earle Birney, then an English professor at the University of British Columbia, broke new ground by establishing a single course within the English department, one for the writer “naked in academe.” He went on to found the UBC Creative Writing Department in 1963 – Canada’s...
by Charles Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In this book, Charles Ritchie looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth, in the years before his brilliant career in Canada’s diplomatic corps began. In these essays we are introduced to his uncles, Harry “Bimbash” Stewart and the dashing, doomed Charlie Stewart;...
The Perilous Trade
"Book Publishing in Canada, 1946-2006"
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
A book that will fascinate and inform readers who love Canadian writing
“Publishing Canadian books has always been an experiment. Like the great experiments of building a transcontinental railway and a national broadcasting system, it constitutes one of the nation’s defining acts. Publishing,...
This Round's On Me
Lorne Rubenstein On Golf
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Lorne Rubenstein is the preeminent figure in the world of Canadian golf journalism and a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. He has been reporting on golf for more than thirty years, and this is a collection of Rubenstein’s best and favourite pieces from 1993 to 2008, selected from thousands...
Tropic Of Hockey
My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
One hot afternoon in 1998, Dave Bidini – who loves hockey, watches it, plays it, and breathes it – found the Stanley Cup final so tedious to watch that at one point he clicked channels to Martha Stewart – and never switched back. This made him wonder where in the world the game might exist free...
The Terry Fallis 3-Book Collection
The Best Laid Plans; The High Road; Up and Down
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Since winning the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 2008 for his first novel, The Best Laid Plans, Terry Fallis has been celebrated as one of Canada's new humour writers, compared to the likes of Robertson Davies and Leacock himself. In this new eBook collection, Fallis's three novels -- The Best...
Writing Gordon Lightfoot
The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
From acclaimed musician and author Dave Bidini comes a brilliantly original look at a folk-rock legend and the momentous week in 1972 that culminated in the Mariposa Folk Festival.
July, 1972. As musicians across Canada prepare for the nation's biggest folk festival, held on Toronto Island,...
This Is My Country, What's Yours?
A Literary Atlas of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fiction
A Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006)
National Post Best Books (2006)
A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers.
Stories are the surest...
A Celtic Temperament
Robertson Davies as Diarist
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Versatile and prolific, Robertson Davies was an actor, journalist and newspaper publisher, playwright, essayist, founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada’s greatest novelists. He was also an obsessive, complex, and self-revealing diarist. His diaries, which...
Dispatches from the Front
The Life of Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
As senior war correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the Second World War, Matthew Halton reported from the front lines in Italy and Northwest Europe and became “the voice of Canada at war.” His gripping, passionate broadcasts chronicled the victories and losses of Canadian...