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...

ENDUEDWhen you pulled upin that brand-newVolkswagen with the sunroof, my heartbeatabrupted, as the girl with theclementine curls, a smilefestooned with freckles and aglance that rhymed with romancestepped into the autumnal lightin her lemon-yellow dressand I was smitten breathless,bitten by love’s bite,and needed no prooffor my endued delight ormy sublime obsession.

In Toronto’s rough days of 1839, several elite citizens harbor dark secrets, offering rich compost for a sleazy blackmailer. Caught in the muck is the gallant young Brodie Langford who is desperate to protect his sweetheart from disgrace. When Brodie is arrested for the extortionist’s murder, Marc Edwards, now a barrister, struggles to save him from the gallows and to reunite the couple.

"The poems in this collection span the decades of the poet’s existence, beginning with his childhood in the small village of Point Edward, Ontario. The poems celebrating his youth are filled with contrasts; images of the endless sands of the beach at Canatara that are “svelte and summering as/seven Saharas” and speak of perpetual summers, even as the actors in those long-ago memories were reaching out all-too-swiftly past their childhood innocence and entering the uncertain waters of their...

Winter’s Descent takes up where “Summer’s Idyll” left off. The time is 1945. Will and his mother have moved to a new town. Will is growing up. His story is one of loneliness, of finding girls, of discovering books, of learning to write. A story told with rare insight and gentle humour.

Praise for Don Gutteridge’s Poetry: "There is no doubt the poems collected in this svelte volume have been memorially ‘lived in’; they must negotiate a world with – and without – words. Gutteridge’s poetic offerings do not rely on complex conceptual acrobatics, but are seemingly designed as accessible snapshots of life. Each tells a story in the form of a vignette, its context established quickly like the flash of a photographer’s bulb. Accented with very memorable...

Don Gutteridge approaches his home town of Point Edward, Ontario, with an array of listening and recording devices, mixing poetry, documentary newspaper collage, interviews and photography. A milestone in the documentary poem.

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...

Now You Are GoneFor Anne, in loving memoryWhen lilacs bloom againin all their lilting loveliness,I’ll think of you when daffodilsdazzle and tulips tantalize,for there has always beensomething of the Springin you with its perpetualbudding of hope and happiness,even as our years lengthened,and so, with summer goneand Winter come a-chilling,I need only recallthe lilacs ...

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 ...

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...

Don Gutteridge approaches his home town of Point Edward, Ontario, with an array of listening and recording devices, mixing poetry, documentary newspaper collage, interviews and photography. A milestone in the documentary poem.