McClelland and Stewart McClelland and Stewart i(A64792 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. M & S; M and S)
Born: Established: 1906 Toronto, Ontario,
c
Canada,
c
Americas, ;
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
McClelland and Stewart Signature series McClelland and Stewart (publisher), series - publisher
15 33 y separately published work icon Tales from Outer Suburbia Shaun Tan , Shaun Tan (illustrator), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1450931 2008 selected work single work short story art work young adult (taught in 13 units)

'do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?

or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?

do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?

Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and The Red Tree, reveals the quiet mysteries of everyday life: homemade pets, dangerous weddings, stranded sea mammals, tiny exchange students and secret rooms filled with darkness and delight.'

Source: Back cover.
1 60 y separately published work icon The Last Magician Janette Turner Hospital , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992 Z461943 1992 single work novel (taught in 1 units) Set largely in Sydney, the 'last magician' is Charlie the photographer, who records everything as he seeks the Cat. Charlie, Cat, Robbie and Catherine shared a childhood summer in a Queensland rainforest till death intruded in their circle. Decades later, memories seep into the present.
1 7 y separately published work icon Innocent Cities Jack Hodgins , Toronto : McClelland and Stewart , 1990 Z294309 1990 single work novel humour
1 y separately published work icon A Reader's Guide to the Canadian Novel John Moss , Toronto : McClelland and Stewart , 1987 Z1614233 1987 selected work criticism
4 31 y separately published work icon Dislocations Janette Turner Hospital , Toronto : McClelland and Stewart , 1986 Z1037396 1986 selected work short story

'Reaching across continents, these allusive, richly textured stories are unified by moments of dislocation in which certainties are eclipsed by unfamiliar terrain. A last, transforming embrace between Indian lovers heralds their separate journeys into arranged marriages; an elderly woman discovers a kinship with her neighbour through their mutual isolation; a young woman's beauty is ravaged by fire; a schoolteacher, fettered by responsibility, learns from her brash students during a Queensland summer heady with the smell of sugar cane; a decaying amaryllis plant mirrors the pain of the artist who obsessively sketches it, and a woman devastated by her friend's death, is shocked by her own secret exultation in living.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Virago ed.)
2 33 y separately published work icon Borderline Janette Turner Hospital , Sydney Sevenoaks : Hodder and Stoughton , 1985 Z382085 1985 single work novel The lives of a Canadian and an American become entangled when they meet a female refugee from El Salvador at a border crossing.
4 18 y separately published work icon The Tiger in the Tiger Pit Janette Turner Hospital , New York (State) : E. P. Dutton and Company , 1983 Z141311 1983 single work novel An estranged New England family gather for their parents' 50th wedding anniversary.
1 y separately published work icon Nobody's Daughter Aviva Layton , Toronto : McClelland and Stewart , 1982 Z1177261 1982 single work novel
5 35 y separately published work icon The Ivory Swing Janette Turner Hospital , New York (City) : E. P. Dutton and Company , 1982 Z12644 1982 single work novel

'A professor's wife, Juliet, already feeling too far from the excitements of city life in her small Canadian college-town, obligingly journeys with husband David (and their two children) even further: to Kerala in southern India, for David's research sabbatical year.'  (Publication summary)
1 2 y separately published work icon Peterley Harvest : The Private Diary of David Peterley Now for the First Time Printed Richard Pennington , London : Hutchinson , 1960 Z1368462 1960 single work novel 'The structure of the book is many-layered. It includes an anonymous diary within the diary, letters from known and unknown people, a ghost story by "Cousin Richard", a short story and a few poems by David Peterley, more than one love affair, some travellers' tales and an intermittent narrative of historical events. These layers of fantasy and actuality give the work a complex satisfying texture, and reinforce the central theme at private and public levels.' (Source: Holroyd, 'Preface', 1985 edition)
9 1 y separately published work icon No Highway Nevil Shute , London : Heinemann , 1948 Z416334 1948 single work novel

'Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2011 Vintage ed.).
13 1 y separately published work icon The Chequer Board Nevil Shute , London : Heinemann , 1947 Z130539 1947 single work novel
10 y separately published work icon Pastoral Nevil Shute , London : Heinemann , 1944 Z1416061 1944 single work novel
4 2 y separately published work icon The Mystery of Swordfish Reef Arthur W. Upfield , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1939 Z101751 1939 single work novel crime mystery detective 'An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside town. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing...and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol bullet. But by whom and why is for Bony to find out.' - (back cover, 1983 Arkon Paperback).
2 3 y separately published work icon Vanity Under the Sun Dale Collins , London : Heinemann , 1928 Z459292 1928 single work novel
X