Atmospheric. A deep dive into human flaws and perfections, and a tough-to-read tale of those who found themselves struggling to survive—physically and emotionally—in the most extreme circumstances imaginable. Beauty and brutality, inseparable.
Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not.
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.
This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of…
A sweeping, epic but intimate, stay-up-late story of the bitter and inexorable end of the wild west. Told with powerful subtlety by an author whose lyrical prose delivers immersive settings and complex, three-dimensional characters, this one worked for me on every level.
"[Vanderhaeghe is] the best all-round novelist at work in Canada today. . . A Good Man is the kind of impeccably crafted, Dickensian charmer we have come to expect from Vanderhaeghe. . . . Remarkable . . . Deeply satisfying . . . Vanderhaeghe's descriptions of the natural world [are] often as striking as Cormac McCarthy's. . . . A towering achievement worthy of celebration as loud as our humble voices can declare."—The Globe and Mail
Best-selling author Guy Vanderhaeghe's final installment in his frontier trilogy is at once a riveting account of personal and historic revenge, and the endearing…
Compellingly unique and weird. Poetic brutality and magnetic repulsion wrapped up in a perfectly executed tale that will introduce you to people you probably never wanted to meet and transport you to places you likely never wanted to go. You’ll be glad for both of those things.
1943: Twenty-four year old Bernhardt Lang is swept along by the currents of war, until an unexpected ally helps him live a life of his own making, in a place he could never have imagined himself existing.
1965: Twelve year old Joseph Holliman is drowning in a life no one should have to endure. When he crosses paths with Frank Gardner, everything he thinks he knows about the meaning of family is changed.
Between the Clouds and the River is a journey from the burning sands of war-torn North Africa to the mountains of Montana and British Columbia, an emotional tale of deception, revelation, identity, and belonging that reminds us that in the end, love is the only truth.
