“Turmoil, As Usual is reporter James McLeod’s week-to-week diary of politics in Newfoundland and Labrador from September 2013 to December 2015 – a period of frenzy marked by a nasty factional struggle among the provincial New Democrats, a sequence of comic-opera crises for the reigning Conservatives, and an unfamiliar whirl of four premiers. McLeod’s quirky, intricate account has much to teach about Newfoundland, but do not overlook the universal lessons about retail politics and even journalism. The first draft of history is rarely so much fun.” – 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Jury (Nahlah Ayed, Megan Leslie, and Colby Cosh)