The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields, including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays. Invaluable to scholars and admirers of Shields's work…

Reta Winters, 44-year-old author of light summertime fiction and mother of three beautiful teenage daughters, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously…

With a Foreword by the Author

Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even…

For the first time all of Carol Shields’ remarkable short stories - some previously unpublished - are gathered together in one volume. ‘Carol Shields’ stories have given me happiness, not…

Carol Shields received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. Yet she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span…

This work is part of the Continuum Contemporaries series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains…

‘ The Republic of Love marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy…a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.’ Times Literary Supplement

A beautiful, darkly ironic novel of misunderstanding and missed opportunites. Shields reveals the mysteries of love, culture and spirituality shimmering beneath the surface of a quiet woman’s life.