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Guy Vanderhaeghe

6 Series • 15 Books

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🎯 Where Should I Start?

Best Starting Point
Publication Order of Frontier Books
Start with: The Englishman's Boy (1996)
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Start with: My Present Age (1984)
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Publication Order of Chapbooks
Start with: Dancock's Dance (1996)

ⓘ About Guy Vanderhaeghe

Guy Vanderhaeghe Multi-award willing writer, Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, a native of Canada, is a winner of three Governor General’s Awards. Two of them were for his novels Man Descending and The Englishmans Boy, and the other was for Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, a short story collection. Mr. Vanderhaeghe is most well known for the Western novel trilogy, The Englishman’s Boy, The Last Crossing, and A Good Man, situated in the 19th-century American and the Canadian West. Book three of the trilogy, A Good Man, starts in 1876 in the American and Canadian West. This story, described as a romantic historical crime novel set in the old west, brings us Wesley Case, a former soldier and son of a Canadian lumber baron, who leaves Canada to escape a heavy secret of his past.

All Book Series by Guy Vanderhaeghe

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The Englishman's Boy

Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 1996

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1996
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The Last Crossing

Book 2 of 3 · published 2002

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2002
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A Good Man

Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2011

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2011
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My Present Age

Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 1984

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1984
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Homesick

Book 2 of 3 · published 1989

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1989
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August Into Winter

Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2021

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2021
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Dancock's Dance

Single-title series · published 1996

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1996
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I Had A Job I Liked. Once: A Play

Single-title series · published 1992

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1992
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Man Descending: Selected Stories

Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 1982

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1982
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The Trouble With Heroes and Other Stories

Book 2 of 4 · published 1983

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1983
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Things As They Are?

Book 3 of 4 · published 1992

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1992
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Daddy Lenin and Other Stories

Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2015

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2015
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Journey Prize Anthology

Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 1993

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1993
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Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium

Book 2 of 3 · published 1999

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1999
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Sundog Highway

Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2000

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2000

? Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Guy Vanderhaeghe?

Guy Vanderhaeghe Multi-award willing writer, Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, a native of Canada, is a winner of three Governor General's Awards. Two of them were for his novels Man Descending and The Englishmans Boy, and the other was for Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, a short story collection. Mr. Vanderhaeghe is most well known for the Western novel trilogy, The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing, and A Good Man, situated in the 19th-century American and the Canadian West.

Which Guy Vanderhaeghe series should I start with?

The best place to start is the Frontier series, the earliest of Guy Vanderhaeghe's multi-book series: it opens with The Englishman's Boy (1996) and runs to 3 books across 1996–2011, ending with A Good Man (2011).

How many books has Guy Vanderhaeghe written?

Guy Vanderhaeghe has 15 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1982 and 2021. 3 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Frontier series with 3 books — and 12 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

In what order should Guy Vanderhaeghe's series be read?

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Guy Vanderhaeghe's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Frontier (1996–2011, 3 books).

How are Guy Vanderhaeghe's books organised into series?

This guide splits Guy Vanderhaeghe's 15 books into 1 named series and 12 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Frontier (3 books, 1996–2011).