Well, every big site needs one! A miscellaneous page, with links to all the pages that just can't be categorized along with the rest.  Except that many of them are may favorite sites.  Here you will find links to pages about ...

The Pulitzer Prize

Shopping at Bowrings in downtown St. John's (as Wavey did) in the early 70s. A wonderful personal remembrance of the department store.

The 'house' theme or motif. A wonderful analysis with interesting pictures by Vera Calloway. Her pages aree interlinked and introduced at a home page.

A quiz on the book.

Wendy Cunard has a nice site about local newspapers and their importance in Newfoundland. There's no Gammy Bird but there are similar papers accessible from her site.

A personal recollection (and photographs) of the ferry to and from Newfoundland. The author refers to Quoyle's experiences on the ferry (pages 28 and 29).

Another author introduces a week's menu or traditional Newfoundland diet, with pictures. A link to another page adds a story about the Newfoundland Wild Bologna! For links to recipes for these fine meals, go to our 'explanations' page or Mike's page.

Jennifer suggests her pictures of icebergs will help you to understand Newfoundland, if not The Shipping News! Her introductory text provides information and she also provides Web links.

In another set of Web pages, Jennifer Gibbons provides information about and links to sites about journalism, particularly the shipping news or reports. Jennifer also introduces a magazine, The Downhomer, important to expatriated Newfoundlanders, the old Gazette, and the main St. John's newspaper, The Telegram. She includes The (St. John's) Evening Telegram's report (the paper was recently renamed) of Proulx's winning of the Pulitzer Prize.

... being a Newfoundlander. Kelli-ann tells her stories.

Carla reflects on the importance of family as a motif in the novel.

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