His books have been published in many languages. His short story collection, Inspecting the Vaults (1987) was short listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His first novel, The Paradise Motel (1989) won the Scottish Council Book Prize. His third novel, First Blast Of the Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regiment of Women (Viking/Penguin, 1997), was short listed for the Governor General's Literary award.
His short stories have been included in many anthologies such as The Oxford Book of Canadian Detective Fiction and The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories. He has read at numerous international writers' festivals including Harbourfront, Vancouver, and Ottawa.
He reviews frequently for the Globe and Mail.
May 6, 1998
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| Author | Title of Work |
|---|---|
| Beverly Bald. | Hope: Memory Series I and Magic: Memory Series I. (art) |
| Patricia Bow. | The spiral maze. |
| Gisela Brude-Firnau. | Die literarische deutung Kaiser Wilhelm II zwischen 1889 und 1989. |
| Virgil Burnett . | Front cover of The caverns of Ely by Karen Mulhallen depicts his sculpture. |
| Stanley Burris. | Logic for Mathematics and Computer Science. |
| Floyd F. Centore. | Confusions and Clarifications. |
| Andrew Cooper. | In Between Countries. |
| Rienzi Crusz. | Insurgent rain: selected poems 1974-1996 Dark antonyms and paradise. |
| Bill Cunningham. | Combinatorial Optimization. |
| Charlene Diehl-Jones. | Lamentations. |
| Pierre Dube. |
Bibliographie de la Critique Sur Madame De Stael 1789-1994. |
| Phyllis Forsyth. | Thera in the Bronze Age.
Catullus: Advanced Placement Edition. |
| John Goyder. | Technology and Society: A Canadian Perspective. |
| Mariela A. Gutierrez. | Lydia Cabrera: Aproximaciones Mitico-Simbolicas a Su Cuentistica. |
| Ralph Haas. | Infrastructure Management; Pavement Design and Management Guide. |
| Erina Harris. | the 82 short poems of eliza. |
| Geoffrey Hayes. | Waterloo County: an illustrated history. |
| Chris Hughes. | Photographic Work. |
| Judi Jewinski. | The ready reference handbook: writing, revising, editing. |
| Manfred Kuxdorf, Editor. | Time, Mood and Aspect in German Tense Vol. 8 & 9. |
| W. Morley Lemon. | Auditing: an integrated approach. |
| Roger C. Mannell. | A Social Psychology of Leisure. |
| Eric P. McCormack. | First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. |
| Kenneth McLaughlin. | Waterloo: The unconventional founding of an unconventional university. |
| Judith Miller. | Timbrel in Her Hand. |
| Mark Nagler. | Yes You Can!: A Manual on How to Raise Children with Disabilities. |
| Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam. | A C++ Primer for Engineers: An Object-Oriented Approach. |
| Robert Prus. | Subcultural Mosaics and Intersubjective Realities. |
| Chris Redmond. | Canadian Holmes. |
| Mercedes Rowinsky. | Imagen Y Discurso. Estudio de las Imagenes en la Obra de Christina Peri Rossi. |
| Peter Russell. | Encyclopedia of Mineral Names. (illustrations) |
| Rhonda Ryman. | Dictionary of Classical Ballet Terminology.
The Foundations of Classical Ballet Technique. |
| Linda Sitler-Howe. | Artwork. |
| Mary E. Thompson. | Theory of Sample Surveys. |
| James W. Walker. | "Race", Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: historical case studies. |
| Carol Ann Weaver. | Daughter of Olapa (CD); Timbrel In Her Hand (1 score and 1 cassette). |
| David A. Winter and Aftab E. Patla. | Signal Processing and Linear Systems for the Movement Sciences. |
| Alexander F. Zweers. | The Narratology of the Autobiography. An analysis of the literary devices employed in Ivan Bunin's The Life of Arsen'ev. |
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