Before setting out on your trip to Newfoundland, why not order some fine audio books for the road.

"....from the new Rattling Books in Newfoundland and feature some of the Rock's great literary talents reading, writing and playing music...."
Alison Gzowski - Globe and Mail

Donovan's Station
a novel by Robin McGrath
Stricken down by a paralytic stroke, Keziah's body is immobile but her mind is on a journey through a life that spans two centuries. Set in rural and urban Newfoundland, this novel is alive with its landscape and language. In Keziah Donovan, award-winning writer Robin McGrath has created an unforgettable story-teller with a voice so authentic and distinctive that it compels the reader to sit and listen, and rings in the ear long after the book is put down.

Hard Light: 32 Little Stories
poems by Michael Crummey
Hard Light: 32 Little Stories is a retelling and reinvention of tales told to Michael Crummey by his father and other family members about outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half-century ago. It's a love-letter to a world and a way of life that has vanished completely in the last fifty years. All of it is true. Even the lies. Read by the author, Ron Hynes and Deidre Gillard-Rowlings.

In The Old Country of my Heart
poems written and read by Agnes Walsh
In the Old Country of My Heart by Agnes Walsh was originally published in book form by Killick Press, an imprint of Creative Publishers, in 1996. Now in it's second printing it has developed a keen following among Newfoundland writers. In this recording the poems are interspersed with two unaccompanied ballads sung by Simone Savard-Walsh and the pump organ music of George Morgan.

on the beach in spanish room
A collection of short stories written and read by Janis Spence
On the Beach in Spanish Room by Janis Spence is a collection of six previously unpublished inter-connected contemporary short stories that follows the lives of a group of friends from early childhood through a rebellious and sometimes catastrophic young adulthood and on into an unsettled middle age. With a cast that includes Father Joe, who can no longer remember when he became a bishop, how he fell in love with a stray cat or whose child he gave away, to Spider LaPlante, tattoo artist and sometime drug dealer hired to do an unusual job, these stories are peopled with characters struggling to comprehend the cruel and funny vagaries of life and love.

Adrift on an Ice Pan
by Wilfred Grenfell
Read by Chris Brookes with Jay Roberts and Janis Spence
How does a man save his own life? In 1908 Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, a medical missionary in Northern Newfoundland, was travelling by dog team to treat a patient. In his haste grenfell took a short cut across the sea ice. A change of wind and ice conditions left the doctor and his dogs stranded on an ice pan, their komatik and provisions lost. Grenfell came close to parishing. Adrift on an Ice Pan is Grenfell's own account of this near-fatal misadventure.

In the Chambers of the Sea
by Susan Rendell
14 Short stories read by Anita Best, Deirdre Gillard-Rowlings, Joel Hynes, Susan Rendell, Janet Russell, Janis Spence, Francesca Swann and Agnes Walsh
“A peculiar fusion of tragedy and comedy. Rendell’s plots are disturbing, her characters depressing, but when they are viewed through the lens of her strange humour, the effect is exhilarating. In the manner of David Lynch’s film Blue Velvet, surreal horror is joined with absurdity to produce a sensibility that at first may seem grotesque, but is truly original and vital.”
-Patrick Kavanagh, The Fiddlehead-
Runner-up 2004 Writers’ Union of Canada Danuta Gleed Literary Award, Shortlisted for the 2003 Winterset Award, Winner 2004 Newfoundland and Labrador/Bennington Gate Book Award for Fiction

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