Will Ferguson Books in Order

Following the spring advance of cherry blossoms, Will Ferguson hitchhikes the length of Japan. Encounters with drivers, unexpected hospitality, and cultural misunderstandings form a travel narrative about discovering a country while remaining conspicuously foreign within it.

Will Ferguson recalls joining Katimavik, a government youth programme that sent young Canadians across the country to volunteer. Work placements, bureaucratic sincerity, and the challenges of communal life become a comic account of discovering Canada and himself.

This guide presents hitchhiking as a way to explore Japan on a limited budget. Advice on etiquette, getting rides, and planning routes accompanies suggested itineraries linked to an English-language road atlas, helping travellers navigate unfamiliar roads and customs.

Canadian history becomes a test of leadership through Ferguson’s division of public figures into ruthless achievers and ineffectual bunglers. Prime ministers, wars, civil rights struggles, and national controversies provide material for a satirical examination of power and failure.

A newcomer to hockey learns to share a partner’s obsession and explains the game to fellow beginners. Rules, positions, jargon, prominent players, traditions, and women’s hockey become an accessible introduction filled with humour and competing opinions.

Editor Edwin de Valu publishes a self-help manuscript that unexpectedly makes its readers happy. As contentment spreads and consumer culture begins to collapse, he discovers that the book’s success could endanger both society as he knows it and his own life.

Three years of journeys carry Ferguson across Canada by helicopter, canoe, seaplane, and road. Remote communities and urban encounters challenge national myths while exploring how geography, history, and cultural differences shape the experience of being Canadian.

In the Depression-era American Southwest, young Jack McGreary escapes his impoverished hometown by joining two accomplished con artists. Their schemes offer freedom and excitement, but divided loyalties and betrayal complicate his education in the art of deception.

Walking Northern Ireland’s Ulster Way, Ferguson encounters rugged landscapes, divided communities, and the lingering effects of conflict. His difficult journey also becomes a search into family history, prompted by questions about his grandfather’s childhood in Belfast.

Family memories connect a Scottish coal-mining grandfather, a Canadian childhood, and Ferguson’s own experience of fatherhood. Christmas provides a recurring thread through stories of travel, changing generations, and the bonds between fathers and sons.

Travels across Canada and beyond inspire a collection of comic observations and personal stories. Roadside monuments, Quebec romance, Japanese encounters, and everyday absurdities reveal the unexpected experiences Ferguson gathers while wandering and wondering about the world around him.

Twenty years after Rwanda’s genocide, Ferguson travels through the country with his friend Jean-Claude Munyezamu, who fled before the killing. Their encounters explore rebuilding, memory, and daily life in a nation carrying immense loss while pursuing a different future.

Medical student Thomas Rosanoff attempts to cure three homeless men who each believe they are Jesus. His experiment reawakens the influence of a father who used him as a childhood subject, blurring the boundaries between scientific curiosity and psychological harm.

An Interpol agent pursues a mysterious collector believed to recover famous lost objects. A disillusioned travel writer and a secretive war photographer become entangled in the search, crossing continents as the desire to reclaim the past encourages deception and danger.

Former television detective Miranda Abbott arrives in Happy Rock hoping to escape her failing career and joins a local play. When an actor is murdered on opening night, she must investigate a crime that puts everyone under suspicion.

Miranda Abbott lands a starring role in a suspiciously expensive television movie being filmed in Happy Rock. When her co-star arrives dead through a hotel window, she and the town's residents must investigate what lies behind the production.

Happy Rock's bookstore hosts a festival of celebrated crime writers, bringing professional rivalries and a mysterious unpublished manuscript to town. When a guest dies inside a locked room, Miranda Abbott must solve a series of apparently impossible murders.

Will Ferguson introduces Canadian history with an irreverent account of Indigenous cultures, European settlement, and political development. This edition follows events into Paul Martin's minority government, using personalities and pivotal episodes to explain the country's changing identity.

The Ferguson brothers offer a comic guide to Canadian behaviour and identity. Food, sex, sport, politics, religion, and regional rivalries become opportunities to examine a nation whose enthusiasm for compromise can be as distinctive as its appetite for beer.

Returning to Canada after years abroad, Ferguson challenges comforting assumptions about the country and its people. Satire and historical scrutiny unsettle familiar national symbols, examining the contradictions behind Canadians’ reputation for niceness and their understanding of their own past.