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.

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.

HAPPENSTANCE

Release date: 3rd Mar 2003

Author: Carol Shields

‘The beautiful irony of “Happenstance” is that its novels are both bound together and held apart by the strength of the marriage they describe.’ Rupert Christiansen, Harpers and Queen

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.