A full-colour illustrated guide to Canada’s endemic species for young readers, from the award-winning author of Snooze-O-Rama: The Strange Ways that Animals Sleep.
Lauded as the most eloquent book about Canadian communists and written like drama, The Strangest Dream animates the history and life of militants from the 1930’s to the 1956 Khruschev revelations about Stalin.
Set in both Canada and Bangladesh, the eight stories in Home of the Floating Lily follow the lives of everyday people as they navigate the complexities of migration, displacement, love, friendship, and familial conflict.
Bee hotel yawning between the holes glancing at open fields north wind blows snow eating our frozen fingers They’ll …
Toward the North: Stories by Chinese Canadian Writers is a thoughtfully coordinated anthology by editors Hua Laura …
A “Story-Producing Story” In James Wood’s essay “Serious Noticing” he makes this keen observation about …
In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation–one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age.
Poet-potter Gerri Frager has created a unique, engaging collection of work – literal alchemy, shaping words and hunks of this land into refined beauty – something hopeful, and remarkably reassuring.
Award-winning author Sonia Saikely’s newest novel, The Allspice Bath is an enjoyable, yet emotional story about a Lebanese family living in Ottawa in the 70s-90s.
Burnt Church resident poet and author Sandra Bunting has released her second book of short stories, Everything in This House Breaks.
A fine example of Canadian historical fiction, Ann Shortell’s Celtic Knot: A Clara Swift Tale …
[dropcap]The [/dropcap]IPPY Awards, or the Independent Publisher Book Awards are presented to the year’s best …
Mariam Pirbhai was born in Pakistan and lived in England and the Philippines before emigrating …
Quebec author Will McClelland has published his debut novel, The Minted (2016, Blue Leaf Press) …
This ambitious debut novel (420 pages) by Ms Guzzo-McParland is an epic story of an Italian family emigrating to Canada, some (like Caterina the narrator) to join their family, others (like her older friend Lucia) to meet husbands for the first time. They make the voyage by the sea in the late 1950’s onboard the Saturnalia, from which the story takes its title. Caterina, her mother Teresa along with Lucia the teenage proxy bride are “the women” of the Saturnalia.