Goose Lane Editions: 150 books
Hurricane Pilot
The Wartime Letters of W.O. Harry L. Gill, DRM, 1940-1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Harry L. Gill, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 at the age of 18. During his short but adventure-filled career, he flew a Hurricane fighter bomber over France, England, and India and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal. In 1943 his airplane was...
War on the Home Front
The Farm Diaries of Daniel MacMillan, 1914-1927
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Daniel MacMillan never saw the battlefields of Passchendaele or Vimy Ridge. A farmer in the tiny New Brunswick community of Williamsburg, he experienced the Great War entirely from the "home front." War on the Home Front: The Farm Diaries of Daniel MacMillan, 1914-1927 is a portrait of the...
As You Were
The Tragedy at Valcartier
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Gripping — the news story that never was. SUMMER, 1974 — Six teenaged boys died and fifty-four were injured in an explosion on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec. A live grenade inadvertently made its way into a box of dud ammunition, and its pin was pulled during a lecture on explosives...
The Bitter Harvest of War
New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada -- as a nation -- was born on its slopes. But the cost was tremendous: 10,000 Canadians were killed, wounded, or went missing in the three-day battle. Shortly thereafter, Prime Minister Robert Borden assembled...
by Peter Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In his breakaway bestseller 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick, Peter Manchester transformed the agony of defeated sticks into the thrill of a new creation, with a slap of good humour that kept readers chuckling all the way through the book. Now, with the publication of Fabulous Fabrications...
Woodlands Canoeing
Pleasure Paddling on Woodland Waterways
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
A recreational canoeman in his native Texas, Rick Sparkman thought he knew all about the sport when he moved to Nova Scotia in 1981. The swift, cold rivers and streams of his new home adjusted his thinking in the most personal way: he got dumped. That’s when he started learning to paddle in earnest....
by Noah Richler
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In the last decade, Canada’s operative myth of a peacekeeping nation has been replaced by that of a “warrior” nation. With it, the idea of the Canadian soldier as peacekeeper has been transformed into the Canadian solider as confident and able war-maker.
Master and Madman
The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Despite the coming social reforms undertaken at home, the world of the Georgian British Empire was nothing if not class-conscious and leery of outsiders. But Anthony Lockwood, with no known certain record of his parentage...
Turning Back the Fenians
New Brunswick's Last Colonial Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America and hold it hostage. New Brunswick, with its large Irish population and undefended frontier, was a perfect...
by Debra Komar
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler — a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white girl — was strung up with a slipknot noose. The hanging was state-sanctioned but it was a lynching all the same. Now, a re-examination of...
Black River Road
An Unthinkable Crime, an Unlikely Suspect, and the Question of Character
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Shortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book Award
In 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly decomposed bodies. The authorities suspected foul play, but the identities of the victims were as...
by Audrey Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her career, Audrey Thomas has repeatedly challenged her readers to...
Wild Apples
Field Notes from a River Farm
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love and longing, and the push-pull emotions which inevitably accompany any attempt to break free of the ties that bind. Simple pleasures abound in these evocative...
The Road to Canada
The Grand Communications Route from Saint John to Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north to the St. Lawrence River through what is now New Brunswick. Aboriginal people used this route as a major highway in all seasons and the great imperial...