PUBLICATIONS
THE THE UNDERTAKING OF BILLY BUFFONE
The Undertaking of Billy Buffone is a story about the trauma - immediate and ongoing, personal and collateral - inflicted by Rupert Churley, who preyed on boys in Twenty-Six Mile House, an isolated town in northern Ontario. The suicides, the conspiracy of silence, the secrets and the damage done to the boys, their friends and families, persist long after the murder of Scouter Churley.
THE LONG BOND
The Long Bond is a gathering of the finest work from six books over four decades by a widely respected and remarkably versatile poet. It spans a massive range of subjects and styles, encompassing the Canadian landscape, music and art, love and family, science, technology, and the manifold challenges to a questioning mind on our anxious planet.
CHILDFOREVER
Who is Will Sawnet? After his father’s death, a young man learns that his mother was Native, and that he was adopted. Shocked and disoriented by the sudden discovery that his past was a lie, Will quits his newspaper job and takes to the road in desperate search of his real mother. This is a satisfying, compelling novel filled with humour, poignancy, tragedy, and caring detail, as Will drives north to the Red Clay Reserve, teetering between selves: is he Will Sawnet, the name his white parents always called him, or Billy Childforever, the ironic name his Cree girlfriend, Agnes, has given him? In Childforever, Cree-Scottish writer Ian McCulloch has created a powerful, urgent exploration of a crisis in identity and its resolution.
QUINN
Quinn the orphan grew up a scrapper and drinker who never accepted any of the breaks life offered him. He messed up his life spectacularly, then blamed the works on Destiny and hightailed it out of town. Eleven years later he returned with a promise to make a fresh start but soon found himself at the center of a monumental muck-up: a bombed war memorial and an abducted autistic girl. The cops are out to nail Quinn's arse to the wall, and he figures he's got to go it alone in getting out of hot water. But little does he realize that he's being helped by the least likely candidate imaginable.
