Pauline Holdstock

• 1990
• / Literary
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The Blackbird's Song is the story of conflict between two cultures. Three young Canadian missionaries working in the remote mountains of Honan province in China become tragic victims of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, in a suspensful tale that explores ...

• Oct-1996
• / General Fiction
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In 1870, while France and Prussia are at war, an English ship is wrecked on the coast of France and a stranger enters the lives of a village family. Elisa Gagnon is married to the man bent on salvaging the wrecked Lady Morgan at any cost; her daug...

• Feb-2005
• / General Fiction
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Loosely based on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, "A Rare and Curious Gift" tells the story of Sofonisba, a brilliant painter gradually taking over her father's studio. Determined to avoid the depredations of men, she is fighting her own intensely ...

• Mar-2014
• / Literary
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After undergoing a cosmetic treatment to recover her lost youth, a middle-aged woman finds herself reconnected to her alienated daughter - a young woman still searching for her own path in life - in an unexpected and incredible way. A modern-day f...

• Mar-2014
• / Literary
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What Endures is a story of powerful love. It is a story that will break your heart. Inspired by true events, it tells of the incredible bond between a mother and daughter, and with gut-wrenching poignancy reminds us of the little things that make lif...

• Feb-2015
• / Literary
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Peter Thomas's fated meeting with a mysterious old fisherman reveals the tumult that runs far below the still surface of his life. A haunting fable from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Pauline Holdstock....

• Aug-2015
• / Historical
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Winner, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize

Shortlisted, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

A National Post Best Book of 2015

"The Hunter and the Wild Girl is powerful, almost elemental storytelling, an achievement not only of craft but o...

• Feb-2020
• / Literary
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A 49th Shelf Editors’ PickMyMum said sometimes refugees don’t eat anything for days and days. Sometimes weeks and months so I am really lucky. I think she exaggerates. But I think she is right about the lucky bit. Or maybe not. Sometimes I forge...

• Nov-2022
• / Literary
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Winner of the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeAn outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisis -- her husband's and her own.Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the all...