Your Breath in Charcoal

Name: Your Breath in Charcoal
ISBN: 9781773104744

by Nicholas Herring

Scotiabank Giller · 2026 · Shortlist

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Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Scotiabank Giller Prize	2026	Shortlist	“A Maritime novel about Knickle, an East Coast everyman on a road trip from Prince Edward Island to Toronto.”

About This Book

A Maritime novel about Knickle, an East Coast everyman on a road trip from Prince Edward Island to Toronto. A working-class character study of a young man learning how to live, told with philosophy, pop-culture references, and dark comedy.

About the Author

Nicholas HerringCanadian

Nicholas Herring is a Canadian novelist who lives in Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island, where he works as a fisherman and a carpenter. His debut novel, Some Hellish, won the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He studied English literature at St. Read more →