This anthology features poetry, fiction, drama, memoir, and travel writing by celebrated authors who have at one time lived in or made Kingston the subject or setting of their work - Michael Ondaatje, Judith Thompson, Carol Shields, Matt Cohen, David Helwig, Bronwen Wallace, Tom Marshall, Douglas LePan, Roberson Davies, Joan Finnigan, Gerard Bessette, Charles Mair, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Susanna Moodie, Elizabeth Simcoe, and Samuel de Champlain, among others. In Carol Shield's novel Swann: A Mystery, Quarry Press appears under the pseudonym, Peregrine Press.