Newfoundland is oft represented in the media, for good or for bad. Sometimes it is referred to as an extremely remote place, other times as the place through which many English-speaking settlers passed before heading on to points within the American heartland, having the closest port of call to the British Isles.
Alligator by Lisa Moore
Boat Who Wouldn't Float, The by Farley Mowat
Colony of Unrequited Dreams, The by Wayne Johnston
Flying over Hate by Ryan Chafe
Galore by Michael Crummey
House of Hate by Percy Janes
Navigator of New York, The by Wayne Johnston; its chief protagonist, Devlin Stead, was raised in Newfoundland by his aunt and uncle.
Random Passage by Bernice Morgan
River Thieves by Michael Crummey
Shipping News, The (1993) by Annie Proulx: The story centers on Quoyle, a newspaper pressroom worker from upstate New York, who returns to his ancestral home in Newfoundland.
This All Happened by Michael Winter
Wreckage, The by Michael Crummey
Rare Birds by Edward Riche
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. There is mention of a character being lost off the coast of Newfoundland.
We, the drowned (2006) by Carsten Jensen's (1952–) includes a voyage, in the 1920s, by a Danish sailing schooner, from Iceland to the Dominion of Newfoundland to collect salt fish for Portugal from an outport.
Een landingspoging op Newfoundland (English: An attempt to land in Newfoundland), a book of short stories by Willem Frederik Hermans, in Dutch
The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
Down to the Dirt
John and the Missus
Rare Birds
The Rowdyman
The Shipping News
The Grand Seduction
Flightplan
Tales from Pigeon Inlet as told by Uncle Mose, played by Ted Russell and set in the fictional outport of Pigeon Inlet was a very popular and comedic radio broadcast in Newfoundland which later spurred a TV show.
The Great Eastern was a comedy series on CBC Radio, presented in the format of a radio news magazine series produced by the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland.
Dooley Gardens
Gullage's
Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
Republic of Doyle
Total Drama World Tour
The situation comedy, Ellen, got into some hot water in 1997 when a minor character made disparaging remarks about the province.
The Young and the Restless
Labrador has been a recognized part of the colony, country or province of Newfoundland for hundreds of years, with or without the official change in the name of the province, hence its inclusion here.
The Chrysalids (U.S. title: Re-Birth) by John Wyndham, 1955
The Land God Gave Cain by Hammond Innes.
Williwaw by Phyllis S. Moore (1978). A raw novel about the struggle of Labrador for independence.
