Howard Norman

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1982
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Where the Chill Came From

  • The Owl Scatterer

  • The Northern Lights

  • Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples

    By turns tragic and comic, a collection of more than one hundred tales displays the cultural richness and diversity among more than thirty tribes of the arctic and subarctic regions and explores the relation of human and nature in the far North. Orig...

  • The Bird Artist

    Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of ...

  • The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese

    Based on decades of research and extended collaboration with Inuit storytellers, award-winning author Howard Norman’s masterful retellings of ten Inuit tales invite readers on a unique story--journey from Siberia and Alaska to the Canadian Arctic a...

  • The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese and Other Tales of the Far North

    Based on decades of research and extended collaboration with Inuit storytellers, award-winning author Howard Norman’s masterful retellings of ten Inuit tales invite readers on a unique story--journey from Siberia and Alaska to the Canadian Arctic a...

  • Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Artic and Subarctic Regions

    By turns tragic and comic, a collection of more than one hundred tales displays the cultural richness and diversity among more than thirty tribes of the arctic and subarctic regions and explores the relation of human and nature in the far North. Orig...

  • The Museum Guard

    Orphaned by a zeppelin crash at age nine, DeFoe Russet was raised in a Halifax, Nova Scotia, hotel by his magnetic uncle Edward. Now thirty, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. He and his uncle disturb the silence...



  • Trickster and the Fainting Birds

    With spare grace and lively wit, acclaimed author Howard Norman chronicles the hilarious antics of a provocative troublemaker. Whether cheating in a sleepwalking contest, teaching the shut-eye dance to ducks, or halting a wedding by transforming the ...

  • The Chauffeur


    Bringing together eight previously published stories the bestselling author of The Bird Artist explores the lives of a range of characters who share a sense of loneliness and obsession. In the title story Tokyo-born Mrs. Moro is driven every day ...

  • The Haunting of L.

    From the bestselling author of The Bird Artist, the final book in his Canadian trilogy (with The Bird Artist and The Museum Guard): a novel about spirit photographs, adultery, and murder

    It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an ...

  • Devotion

    Like many of Howard Norman’s celebrated novels, this intense and intriguingly unconventional love story begins with a crime. David Kozol has assaulted his father-in-law on a London street. What could possibly enrage David enough that he would strik...

  • What Is Left the Daughter

    Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country's finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books--The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L--in this erotically charged and morally complex story....

  • Next Life Might Be Kinder

    "After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me." Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marri...

  • My Darling Detective

    Jacob Rigolet, a soon-to-be former assistant to a wealthy art collector, looks up from his seat at an auction -- his mother, former head librarian at the Halifax Free Library, is walking almost casually up the aisle. Before a stunned audience, she fl...

  • The Ghost Clause

    National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his ...

  • Come to the Window

    A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I.It’s 1918. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova ...

  • I Refused to Be a War Bride: Detective Levy Detects, Episode 3

    Detective Levy is at it again in episode three, where the past meets up with the present and something unforeseen becomes the center of his life.In this issue, Bettina Eldersveld arrives in Halifax by steamer from Holland during WWII. She's obligated...



  • Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad and Other Stories: And Other Stories

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    In this collection of seven stories, an old Eskimo woman believes her lost son is living in a jukebox, an adolescent boy visits the annual reunion of shipwreck survivors, and a Hollywood couple keep their memories alive in a collection of Hawaiian sh...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Howard Norman has published 20 books.

Howard Norman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, I Refused to Be a War Bride: Detective Levy Detects, Episode 3, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Howard Norman, Where the Chill Came From, was published in February 1982.

No. Howard Norman does not write books in series.
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