Ian Weir

Will Starling

Returning to 1816 London to help military surgeon Alec Comrie build a civilian practice, Will Starling becomes acquainted with the medical world's seedy underbelly and strives to uncover the nature of one charismatic surgeon's evils.

Library Journal Best Books 2011: Historical Fiction selection Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award Finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award Finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 1851. London, England. Once a well-known prize-fighter with a terrifying right fist (known as “The Hammer of Heaven”), Daniel O’Thunder has seen the light, and now the protection of the poor and the weak is his life’s work. He runs an establishment for those in need of food, shelter and counsel—a place where virtue and vice rub shoulders uneasily. But an ancient evil is stalking the streets, preying on the vulnerable souls it finds there. It is an evil that takes different forms and hides behind many faces, threatening everything Daniel loves most. Driven to desperation, Daniel responds by issuing a breathtaking challenge…to the Devil himself. Rich in humor and memorable characters, Daniel O’Thunder is a rollicking literary thriller set in the teeming slums of Dickensian London. Fast-paced and gripping, comic and tragic by turns, it is a spectacular fiction debut.

Daniel O'Thunder

Richard Rose

Simon Gray

Jonathan Miller

Eugene O'Neill

Ryszard Kapuściński

Michael Hastings

David Hare

Linda Moore

Malcolm Black

Theatre Plus Archives (University of Guelph)

Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand

William R. Brand

Hutchison Shandro

The Illusions and Delusions That Colour Our Lives

"In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother Purcell disappears into a winter storm in the mountains of British Columbia, while hunting down his outlawed half-brother. Sixteen years later, the wreck of Purcell resurfaces - derelict, homeless and one-eyed - in a San Francisco jail cell. And a failed journalist named Barrington Weaver conceives a grand redemptive plan. He will write Purcell's true-life story. All it requires is a final act..."--Amazon.com.

The Death and Life of Strother Purcell

Ian Weir

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