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2017 novel by Joel Thomas Hynes
First edition
We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
is a novel by
Canadian
writer
Joel Thomas Hynes
, published in 2017 by
Harper Perennial
.
[1]
It won the
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
at the
2017 Governor General's Awards
[2]
and the
Winterset Award
,
[3]
and was longlisted for the 2017
Scotiabank Giller Prize
.
The novel centres on Johnny Keough, who is undertaking a
road trip
from his home in
Newfoundland
to
British Columbia
to scatter the ashes of his girlfriend Madonna after she is killed in an accident.
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Continental Revue
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The Tin Flute
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The Precipice
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Mr. Ames Against Time
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1950s
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The Outlander
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The Loved and the Lost
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The Pillar
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Digby
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The Fall of a Titan
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The Sixth of June
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The Sacrifice
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Street of Riches
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Execution
(1958)
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The Watch That Ends the Night
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1960s
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1970s
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The New Ancestors
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St. Urbain's Horseman
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The Manticore
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The Temptations of Big Bear
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The Diviners
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The Great Victorian Collection
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Bear
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The Wars
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Who Do You Think You Are?
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The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
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1980s
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Burning Water
(1980)
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Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories
(1981)
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Man Descending
(1982)
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Shakespeare's Dog
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The Engineer of Human Souls
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The Handmaid's Tale
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The Progress of Love
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A Dream Like Mine
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Nights Below Station Street
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Whale Music
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1990s
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Lives of the Saints
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Such a Long Journey
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The English Patient
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The Stone Diaries
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A Discovery of Strangers
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The Roaring Girl
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The Englishman's Boy
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The Underpainter
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Forms of Devotion
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Elizabeth and After
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2000s
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Anil's Ghost
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Clara Callan
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A Song for Nettie Johnson
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Elle
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A Complicated Kindness
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A Perfect Night to Go to China
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2010s
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Cool Water
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The Sisters Brothers
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The Purchase
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The Luminaries
(2013)
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The Back of the Turtle
(2014)
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Daddy Lenin and Other Stories
(2015)
- Madeleine Thien
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
(2016)
- Joel Thomas Hynes
,
We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
(2017)
- Sarah Henstra
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The Red Word
(2018)
- Joan Thomas
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Five Wives
(2019)
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2020s
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