A Doyle Reader: Writings from Home and Away

A Doyle Reader is a lively collection of personal writings, columns, and commentaries from a nationally known Newfoundland-born author and broadcaster, Marjorie Doyle.

Doyle tackles a range of topics without pulling punches: her St. John’s girlhood, Confederation, music, culture, and travel (whether as a sullen 10-year-old or an exhausted English teacher). Through it all is Doyle’s distinctive voice: patriotic, passionate, and relentlessly funny.

Marjorie Doyle has published four books of non-fiction. Her latest book is Mary Foley, Mary Doyle. Her columns and essays have appeared across Canada in the Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, National Post, Fiddlehead, Geist, Calgary Herald, Queen’s Quarterly, Antigonish Review. Her broadcast career included hosting the national CBC radio show That Time of the Night. Marjorie has been awarded a National Magazine Award and (with her brother John W. Doyle) two CBC Radio Awards for Programming Excellence and a Golden Sheaf nomination for the documentary Regarding Our Father. A former Chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada, she has read across Canada and was writer in residence at Haig Brown House on Vancouver Island.