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Taut, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives.A teenagers job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn w...

A 2022 Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist A CBC Books and Quill & Quire Anticipated Fall Book A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+...

Finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award One of CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the FallA poet recounts his experience with madness and...

Winner of the 2020 Governor General's Award in Translation A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2020 Sliding doors open and close automa...

The architecture of this first novel is faultlessly conceived; the construction of the storytelling is meticulously crafted. Hardcastle has an abid...

Powerful ...full of dark nostalgia.--Nathan Englander The Lifeboat All night in his lifeboat my father sang to keep the voices of the other men w...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023  One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023  One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023To say Heighton is an immensely talen...

The much-anticipated follow-up to From the Vault, Volume 1 draws on local archives to bring historic London, Ontario, to life. Welcome to 1950 in L...

Journeys and interrupted journeys are a well established theme in literature. Gustave Von Aschenback's fateful journey back to Venice and his death...

On a motorcycle trip from Manitoba to southern Chile, Cameron Dueck seeks out isolated enclaves of Mennonitesand himself. An engrossing account of ...

T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Ernie Ford, Buddha and Jesus, Jung and Heidegger. Love, solitude, obliteration, the ocean, and a sad neighbor who feeds pi...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021. When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful count...

Transnationalist Cecil Foster explores the origins, legacy, and potential of Canadian multicultural policy. From the beginning of colonial settleme...

Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award  Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime BookYou have taken our civil rightswe ...

Shortlisted for the J.I Segal Awards Best Quebec Book on a Jewish Theme Shortlisted for the The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionA poet rediscov...

Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Award for Poetry Winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry In My Shoes are Killing Me, p...

As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely...

Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal...

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in Ja...

In this compelling whodunnit, Elaine Dewar reads the science, follows the money, and connects the geopolitical interests to the spin. When the firs...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Eight months before he became a suicide bomber, Prin went ...

In his debut collection of short stories, David Huebert brings us an assortment of wounded wanderers who remind us that we are all marooned on the ...

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book A CBC Best Nonfiction Book of 2...

As the sickly boy dreams in bed, the shadows beneath his parlor curtain are stirring, taking shapes inexpressible even in a child's dreams. Real ke...

Two crystalline novellas linked by one devastating crime: Say This is an immersive meditation on the interplay between memory, trauma, and narrativ...

The collection, which began as a response to Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing, metamorphosed into witty, poetic responses to famous epigraphs ...

A CBC Books' Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024I wanted a good bewildering, / down deep, / as the keep of a castle.With a voice as ungov...

WINNER OF THE 2021 RELIT AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION A sea witch, a bossy Virgin Mary, and a lesbian widows wifein ghost formwalk into a short story ...

It makes no sense. You would be strangers / if not for this. In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a mo...