All in Good Time is an authentic story of camaraderie, rivalry and national pride. Don Gutteridge is a story teller through and through. His skill at spinning yarn is seen all the way through his novel All in Good Time this Novel is well worth this second life.The time is February, 1945. The War in Europe is raging towards its last catastrophe. The people of the village beside the Great Lake are waiting for war to end; for the incursion of a US hockey team...

By & By brings together two Canadian poetry icons into one book. This is a wonderful collaboration that should never be forget.Two sets of poems by two fine Canadian authors; a Professor Emeritus and a Poet Laureate bring Canadian culture a boost of poetic virtuosity. Both fine wordsmiths, both playing the tune, "In the Sweet By and By" about past and present. Once you have read this fine collection you will be able to say, by and by I read a fine book of ...

Hearthbeat: Poems of Family and Hometown is an anthology of poetry with authors: Lee Beavington, Sharon Berg, Ariane Blackman, William Bonnell, Ronnie R. Brown, April Bulmer, Lidia Chiarelli, Robert Currie, Chip Dameron, James Deahl, Bernadette Gabay Dyer, Daniela Elza, Lesley-Anne Evans, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Roy Geiger, Katherine L. Gordon, Elizabeth Greene, Andreas Gripp, Richard M. Grove, Richard Harrison, Farideh Hassanzadeh, Rhoda Hassmann, Laurence Hutchman, Keith Inman, Debbie Ok...

This locked mansion mystery is set in 1839 at a country estate north of Toronto. Marc and Robert Baldwin have been working tirelessly to effect responsible government in Upper Canada (Ontario). In a few months, Upper and Lower Canada (Quebec) will be joined in a single legislature, and savvy political leaders see this as an opportunity to forge a solid alliance with like-minded Quebec representatives to facilitate democratic reforms. The secret meeting with visitors from the Quebec Rouge P...

In a wonderful follow up to Summer's Idyll, the book that first introduced his readers to protagonist "Billy" or "Junior," this second work, Winter's Descent continues this lovely story and will certainly keep readers enthralled from beginning to end. Following Billy and his life as he moves with his mother to the countryside of Ontario during the Second World War, the story is one that provides deeply personal historical detail that Gutteridge's fans have come to know and love. Billy is e...

Lily Fairchild is born in southern Ontario in 1840 and leads a life of constant struggle against the historical forces of her time: the coming of the railroads, the discovery of oil, the Riel Rebellions, the Great War and the influenza pandemic that followed. Three marriages and two children complicate her life and against all the odds she struggle and survives, always deciding on love whenever she can.

Bus-Ride is a week in the lives of the people of a small Ontario town in March 1939, most notably in the life of Bill Underhill. Bill is the town’s star hockey player, scouted by the big leagues and certain of a pro career. Everyone is sure he will leave the village one day as the Leafs’ new centre, everyone but Bill. This is definitely a poet’s novel. What might have been another pedestrian boy-grows-to-manhood-unsubtle-autobiography becomes first-class fiction with Gutteridge’s skill and...

To investigate the mysterious death of Crown secret agent Joshua Smallman, Marc Edwards goes undercover in the small town of Crawford’s Corners, wading into rumours of sedition and secret societies.It’s 1836 and Ensign Marc Edwards, of His Majesty’s 24th Regiment of Foot, is eager for some adventure and intrigue. Unfortunately he’s been posted to the colonial backwater of Toronto, Upper Canada, and at first glance there doesn’t seem to be much chance for that sort ...

This is the third novel in the action-packed Marc Edwards mysteries, set during the rebellions of 1830s Upper Canada. A follow-up to Turncoat and Solemn Vows.

Lily Fairchild follows the life of a pioneer woman, born in the backwoods of Lambton County in 1840, throughout her long life, ending in 2019. During that time, she is witness to historical events that impinge on her life: the Underground Railroad, the coming of the railways, the discovery of oil, the Fenian raids, the first and second Riel Rebellions, the construction of the tunnel under the St Clair River, the Great War, and the flu pandemic of 1919. Lily struggles against the f...

In the midst of the Great Depression, the townsfolk of Port Eddy are looking forward to the annual diversion: a horseshoe tournament against nearby Petroleum City. When a ringer, a hotshot outsider illegally brought in to help the City win the contest, is murdered, Constable Stan Garrett, the recently appointed village cop, is surprised that he might be involved in something more than jaywalking. However, when the uncle of his new lady friend, Susan Shaw, is suddenly arrested by the City p...

Another exciting installment in Don Gutteridge’s action-packed Marc Edwards mysteries series, in which the hero must rush to solve one murder for the sake of his country.It is July of 1838, and an uneasy peace hangs over Upper and Lower Canada. The provinces have suffered two rebellions, and the unresolved grievances of the local population still linger beneath the fragile calm. Britain has finally taken note of the situation, and Lord Durham is dispatched as the temporary commissi...