In Paul Quarrington's favorite childhood recording, a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, pluckily sets off for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way: a bluebird trilling, truck tires whining. Years later, a writer and musician himself, Quarrington is suddenly diagnosed with stage four lung cancer and begins to ponder the path his own life has taken and the music it's made along the way. Quarrington ruminates on the bands of his childhood; his restless youth, spent playing bass with a cult band; and his incarnation, in middle age, as rhythm guitarist and singer with the band Porkbelly Futures. From rock’n’roll to country and soul, he explores how songs are made, how they work, and why they affect us so deeply.

Product Description: One morning in Don Mills, Phil and his brother Jay agree to let their friend Norman Kitchen tag along on an adventure down into a ravine — and what happens there at the hands of two pitiless teenagers changes all their lives forever...read more

Former All-Star hockey player Percival 'King' Leary, now an old man in a retirement home, relives his glory days in a flood of memories sparked by a party thrown in his honor

Hoping to find meaning in their own lives by tracking a hurricane on a small Caribbean island, amateur storm chasers Beverly and Caldwell seek shelter at a resort alongside three locals while tracing both the storm and their own tragic pasts. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: From one of Canada’s beloved fiction writers comes a tale of love and loss, guilt and forgiveness -- and finding redemption in the eye of a hurricane.Few people seek out the tiny Caribbean island of Dampier Cay. Visitors usually wash up there by accident, rather than by design...read more

Product Description: In the fall of 1994, Deval set out to fish the Broadback from the wilderness in search of the big one. He had a particular spot in mind, and neither shoulder-high bracken nor a whirling dervish of a wind was going to stand in his way...read more

Product Description: An authoritative, amusing and thoroughly engaging guide to fishing for trout.This definitive guide to catching trout marries the expertise of veteran trout fisherman and champion tournament caster Gord "The Old Guy" Deval with the wit and brilliance of his star pupil, author Paul Quarrington...read more

A 'darkly comic' novel set on the Las Vegas strip follows two European strippers on a quasi-mystical search for fame and the unknown. Reprint.

Once the driving force behind the Howl Brothers band, Desmond Howell's plans to finish his masterpiece--the Whale Music symphony--are threatened by his brother's suicide, his mother's theft of a musical tape, and the arrival of an escapee from an institution

Recounts the author's quest, along with his 'old guy' Gordon Deval, to catch the world's largest speckled trout

Trying to escape his troubled marriage and get back to work on his second novel, Paul moves to Hope, a small town in Ontario, but finds the town even more fascinating than his work

A baseball game is organized to decide whether or not a marooned circus sideshow troupe should be expelled from a small Michigan town controlled by a fundamentalist religious sect