Novels
- Mrs. Blood (1970)
- Songs My Mother Taught Me (1973)
- Blown Figures (1974)
- Ladies & Escorts (1977)
- Latakia (1979)
- Intertidal Life (1984)
- Graven Images (1993)
- Coming Down From Wa (1995)
- Isobel Gunn (1999)
- Local Customs (2014)
Omnibus
- Munchmeyer & Prospero On the Island (1972)
Collections
- Ten Green Bottles (1967)
- Two in the Bush and Other Stories (1981)
- Real Mothers (1981)
- Goodbye Harold, Good Luck (1986)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (1990)
- The Path of Totality (2001)
- Tattycoram (2005)
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Audrey Thomas Books Overview
Mrs. Blood
Women are at last beginning to talk about their bodies, not only among themselves, but also in print. When I began writing Mrs. Blood this was not the case. So many women have come up to me and said, Yes, I ve been through that too a messy miscarriage, a still birth, a bad abortion but I never really talked about it the pain, the fear, the futility of it all. Mrs. Blood is Audrey Thomas first novel woman from the inside.
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Republished with a new introduction, this is Audrey Thomas’s classic coming of age novel about madness, loneliness, despair and escape.
Isobel Gunn
In the summer of 1806, a young Orkney woman disguised herself as a man and signed on with the Hudson& 146s Bay Company to travel to what was then called Rupert& 146s Land. For a year and a half she hid her identity and her deception was revealed only when she was giving birth to a baby boy. In less than an hour, she turned from John Fubbister into Isobel Gunn. Very little is known about the real woman her birth certificate, a few entries in the Hudson& 146s Bay Company logbook, a line in the census, her obituary. Audrey Thomas has taken the threads of Isobel Gunn& 146s story and turned them into a compelling novel about an unusual woman, her short life, and the effect she had on those around her. Audrey Thomas first heard the story of Isobel Gunn while she was living in Scotland in the mid 1980s. She was based in Edinburgh for a year as a Canada Scotland Literary Fellow and travelled extensively within the country. A number of years later, Thomas was on assignment in Scotland& 146s Orkney Isles for Saturday Night Magazine when she heard the story again and decided she had to write about it. There was little factual material available, but Thomas spent four years researching the story and the colourful era in which it took place. Her research led to the rich texture of the book, incorporating historically accurate details of the period and capturing the social attitudes of the day.
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