The story of “Away” is the story of a spell, and how such a thing can be true and untrue at the same time, for an individual and for a community, holding its power over generations. It is an Irish ...

The tendrils of poetic symbolism so tightly coil about this first novel, by a poet, that Jane Urquhart`s period tale about youngish folk on the Ontario side of Niagara Falls bodes to obtain the ...

In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, ...

Canadian writer Jane Urquhart read from her new book, "A Map of Glass," to a small gathering of fans in East Pyne last night. Following the reading, another Canadian novelist, Princeton resident ...

Distinguished Canadian writer and Northumberland resident Jane Urquhart will appear at Brighton Public Library on Thursday to launch her new novel “In Winter I Get Up at Night.” Urquhart will be in ...

Urquhart (Sanctuary Line) delivers an impressionistic and forlorn postwar romance. Framed by the career of an ingenious real-life artist named Kenneth, the novel emulates an actual mural of his, ...

The bell-llike clarity of its prose initially masks the eloquent pathos of this Canadian bestseller by Urquhart (The Underpainter), which examines WWI through the experiences of siblings Klara Becker, ...

A MAP OF GLASS by Jane Urquhart (McClelland & Stewart), 371 pages, $34.95 cloth. Rating: NNN Rating: NNN Beautiful but too pristine – that’s how I’d describe A Map Of Glass. Jane Urquhart’s new novel ...

Devoted readers of Jane Urquhart sometimes travel to the village of Colborne, looking for the large white house at the edge of the lake. In Away, the house is set on Loughbreeze Beach, "like a compass ...