Maritime Fiction

 

Listed below are selected novels which fall into this category. This list is not comprehensive; rather, it is a list of some of the more popular titles within this category.

 

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Author

Title

 

Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

Kelly Armstrong

Bitten

Bernard Assiniwi

The Beothuk Saga

Alison Baird

The Hidden World

Paul Bowdring

The Night Season

Louis Charbonneau

Trail

Joan Clark

Latitudes of Melt

Lynn Coady

Saints of Big Harbour
Strange Heaven

Kresley Cole

The Captain of All Pleasures

H. W. Coyle

Savage Wilderness

Michael Crummey

River Thieves

Sheldon Currie

Down the Coaltown Road
The Glace Bay Miner's Museum

Angela Davis-Gardner

Felice

Myrtis Dohaney

A Fit Month for Dying
To Scatter Stones

Sara Donati

Dawn on a Distant Shore

Margaret Duley

Cold Pastoral
Highway to Valour

Peter Berresford Ellis

The Rising of the Moon

Marina Endicott

Open Arms

Helen Flint

Return Journey

Dorothy Gilman

The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax

Katherine Govier

Creation

Darren Greer

Still Life with June
Tyler's Cape

Ray Guy

This Dear and Fine Country
Was There a Better Time?
You May Know Them as Sea Urchins, Ma'am

Harold Horwood

Coming to an End
Iniquities of the Fathers
Remembering Summer
Shell Collector (short story in New Canadian Stories 73)
Tomorrow Will Be Sunday
White Eskimo

James A. Houston

The Ice Master

Percy Janes

House of Hate

Michael Johansen

Confession in Moscow

Wayne Johnston

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
The Divine Ryans
The Navigator of New York
The Story of Bobby O'Malley
The Time of Their Lives

Patrick Kavanagh

Gaff Topsails

Susan Kerslate

Middlewatch

William Kinsolving

Born With the Century

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fall on Your Knees

D.R. MacDonald

All the Men Are Sleeping
Cape Breton Road

Linden MacIntyre

The Long Stretch

Meagan McKinney

The Merry Widow

Hugh MacLennan

Barometer Rising

Alistair MacLeod

Island: the Collected Short Stories of Alistair MacLeod
The Lost Salt Gift of the Blood
No Great Mischief

Beatrice MacNeil

Butterflies Dance in the Dark

Robert MacNeil

Burden of Desire

Kevin Major

Far From Shore
Gaffer
No Man's Land

Bernice Morgan

Random Passage
Topography of Love
Waiting for Time

Donna Morrissey

Downhill Chance
Kit's Law

Howard A. Norman

The Museum Guard

Patrick O'Flaherty

A Small Place in the Sun

Elisabeth Ogilvie

The Devil in Tartan

Janette Oke

The Distant Beacon
The Sacred Shore

Katherine Hall Page

The Body in the Lighthouse

Gordon Pinsent

John and the Missus
The Rowdyman

Helen Porter

January, February, June and July
Moving Day (short story in A Land, A People)
One Saturday (short story in Atlantica)

E. Annie Proulx

That Old Ace in the Hole
The Shipping News

Thomas H. Raddall

The Governor's Lady
Hangman's Beach
His Majesty's Yankees
Pride's Fancy
Roger Sudden

Kathy Reichs

Death du Jour

David Adams Richards

The Bay of Love and Sorrows
Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
Mercy Among the Children
Night Below Station Street

Edward Riche

Rare Birds

Kenneth Roberts

Arundel
Rabble in Arms

Robina Salter

Hannah: a Midwife's Tale

JoAnne Soper-Cook

Waterbourne

John Steffler

The Afterlife of George Cartwright

Jane Urquhart

The Underpainter

Robert E. Wall

The Acadians
Bloodbrothers

Frederick Ward

A Room Full of Balloons

Leslie Turner White

His Majesty's Highlanders

Richard B. Wright

Clara Callan

 

 

 

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