4th Estate

THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE [ePub edition]

Release date: 24th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

From the Orange Prize-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author, a hymn to the pleasures and pains, and even the raptures of an unspectacular life.

MARY SWANN [ePub edition]

Release date: 24th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

‘One of the best novels I have read this year. It’s deft, funny, poignant, surprising and beautifully shaped.’ Margaret Atwood

DUET [ePub edition]

Release date: 24th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields’ tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life.

LARRY’S PARTY [ePub edition]

Release date: 24th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court’s Maze.

SMALL CEREMONIES [ePub edition]

Release date: 24th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

THE BOX GARDEN [ePub edition]

Release date: 24th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

THE STONE DIARIES [ePub edition]

Release date: 24th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

‘The Stone Diaries’ is the story of one woman’s life, a truly sensuous novel which reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize.

HAPPENSTANCE [ePub edition]

Release date: 24th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

These companion novels – by turns touching, compassionate and humorous – tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman. In all the years of their marriage they have hardly ever been apart.

DRESSING UP FOR THE CARNIVAL [ePub edition]

Release date: 24th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

A new collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry’s Party (winner of the Orange prize).

VARIOUS MIRACLES [ePub edition]

Release date: 17th Nov 2011

Author: Carol Shields

‘Shield writes with that big heart of hers ablaze’ Sunday Times

A CELIBATE SEASON [ePub edition]

Release date: 19th Aug 2010

Authors: Carol Shields Blanche Howard

In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage.

UNLESS [ePub edition]

Release date: 19th Aug 2010

Author: Carol Shields

Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of ‘The Stone Diaries’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and ‘Larry’s Party’, winner of the Orange Prize.

COLLECTED STORIES [ePub edition]

Release date: 29th Jul 2010

Author: Carol Shields

For the first time all of Carol Shields’ remarkable short stories – some previously unpublished – are gathered together in one volume. ‘Carol Shields’ stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure’ Alice Munro

LARRY’S PARTY

Release date: 26th Mar 2010

Author: Carol Shields

The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Stone Diaries’.

DRESSING UP FOR THE CARNIVAL

Release date: 26th Feb 2010

Author: Carol Shields

A new collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry’s Party (winner of the Orange prize).

VARIOUS MIRACLES

Release date: 1st Jul 2008

Author: Carol Shields

‘Shield writes with that big heart of hers ablaze’ Sunday Times

COLLECTED STORIES

Release date: 7th Mar 2005

Author: Carol Shields

For the first time all of Carol Shields’ remarkable short stories – some previously unpublished – are gathered together in one volume. ‘Carol Shields’ stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure’ Alice Munro

MARY SWANN

Release date: 4th Aug 2003

Author: Carol Shields

‘One of the best novels I have read this year. It’s deft, funny, poignant, surprising and beautifully shaped.’ Margaret Atwood

DUET

Release date: 4th Aug 2003

Author: Carol Shields

Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields’ tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life.

UNLESS

Release date: 3rd Mar 2003

Author: Carol Shields

Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of ‘The Stone Diaries’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and ‘Larry’s Party’, winner of the Orange Prize.

THE STONE DIARIES

Release date: 3rd Mar 2003

Author: Carol Shields

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General’s Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. ‘The Stone Diaries’ is the story of one woman’s life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century.

THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE

Release date: 3rd Mar 2003

Author: Carol Shields

‘“The Republic of Love” marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy…a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.’ Times Literary Supplement

DRESSING UP FOR THE CARNIVAL

Release date: 3rd Mar 2003

Author: Carol Shields

A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry’s Party (winner of the Orange prize).

A CELIBATE SEASON

Release date: 3rd Aug 2000

Authors: Carol Shields Blanche Howard

In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage.