Paul Bowdring – lisa·èÂíÐã Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa·èÂíÐã Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:47:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Mister Nightingale /store/mister-nightingale.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mister-nightingale Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:47:34 +0000 /store/mister-nightingale.html/mister-nightingale When self-described mid-list Newfoundland author James Nightingale makes a brief sojourn to his St. John's home for the re-release of his seminal novel, he's forced to confront his failings, both familial and artistic. Imbued with the language of literature and the imagery of a Newfoundland in flux, Mister Nightingale is at once a fitful meditation on the writing life, and a keen and poignant exploration of one man's coming to terms with la vie quotidienne.

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]]> 56097 The Strangers’ Gallery /store/the-strangers-gallery.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-strangers-gallery Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:24:20 +0000 /store/the-strangers-gallery.html/the-strangers-gallery St. John's archivist Michael Lowe's life is turned on its head when a Dutch acquaintance, Anton Aalders, arrives on his doorstep in 1995. Anton is searching for a father he never met, ostensibly a Newfoundland soldier who was part of the Allied forces that liberated the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War. Anton's visit stretches from a few days to a few months, reluctant as he is to go in search of his father, and keen to learn as much as he can about Newfoundland, its history, and its people. Rabble-rouser and ardent Newfoundland patriot Brendan "Miles" Harnett, Michael's friend and sometime bugbear, is obsessed with his own search for the lost "fatherland" of Newfoundland, which relinquished its political independence in 1934. Miles is only too eager to teach Anton—and Michael—the shameful, forgotten history (as he sees it) of the lost country of Newfoundland. The Strangers' Gallery is a finely crafted, at times humorous, novel about the painful search for identity—both political and personal.

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