Set in Prague and narrated with great panache by the 600-year-old Charles Bridge, this novel begins with an elephant named Sál escaping the Prague Zoo. As the elephant moves through the beautiful Czech city, the lives of the men and women she meets are altered by the...

Editeur : Thistledown Press
Parution : 2022-08-15

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Gilda Peterborough has always worried about her twin, but when Pete deletes his Facebook page, she goes to red alert. Meanwhile, Pete and Gilda’s mother Beth frets about both of her twins, neither of whom seem to be thriving. When Pete abruptly decides to move away...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2022-07-12

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The River Twice, by the Giller-nominated author of the bestsellingThe Island Walkers, is a gripping new World War I novel set in the Southern Ontario factory town familiar to his many readers, where residents are reeling as the wounded return and the list of local young...

Editeur : Thistledown Press
Parution : 2022-05-30

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In his playful yet deeply serious third novel Jaspreet Singh links a fossil fraud in India, an ice core archive in Canada, and a climate change laboratory in Germany.Jaspreet Singh’s much anticipated third novel traces a past crime that suddenly becomes confrontable on...

Editeur : Brindle & Glass
Parution : 2022-05-17

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Narrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline's carefully constructed life begins to unravel. Written...

Editeur : Freehand Books
Parution : 2022-05-01

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A tender ensemble novel about coming home to oneself and one's family through the beauty and soulfulness of Earth, even in an age of unravelling. Brothers Justin and Oliver have never been close. Justin owns an iconic Toronto restaurant and lives with his wife and...

Editeur : Freehand Books
Parution : 2022-05-01

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Was it the death of her dog, Bloom, or was she just tired of her routine as a dentist? Or perhaps her depression was the result of her (mostly) unrequited love for her former piano teacher, Bruno? As Robin contemplates a sabbatical to see puffins in Newfoundland, a...

Editeur : Stonehouse Originals
Parution : 2022-05-01

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Mortician Mylène Andrews spends her days dealing with death, but has never quite figured out how to live. After her estranged mother passes away, adult-orphaned Mylène sets out in her hearse to see the graveyards her mother visited before her death, guided by a...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2022-04-26

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Finalist, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction1971. Lilac Welsh lives an isolated life with her parents at Rough Rock on the Winnipeg River. Her father, Kal, stern and controlling, has built his wealth by designing powerful guns and ammunition. He’s on the cusp of...

Editeur : Goose Lane Editions
Parution : 2022-04-12

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1949: Milne Lowell, a Canadian writer, moves to London from Montreal to edit a magazine dedicated to cultural freedom. His colleagues include Marguerite Allard, a French-Canadian anarchist, Eric Felmore, an American novelist, and Carson Ward, a British poet. Initially,...

Editeur : Baraka Books
Parution : 2022-03-21
Collection : Baraka Fiction
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A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration.It’s 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal, leaving behind a civil war filled with bad memories in Lebanon. She had plans...

Editeur : Esplanade Books
Parution : 2022-03-01

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Pilgrimage was the first expression in English of what it is to be called 'stream of conciousness' technique, predating the work of both Joyce and Woolf, echoing that of Proust with whom Dorothy Richardson stands as one of the great innovatory figures of our time. These...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2021-11-09

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Ana and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity, making way for more...

Editeur : NeWest Press
Parution : 2021-09-30

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A breathtaking, fast-paced work of historical fiction based on the tragic true story of the 1941 Mount Allison University residence fire I have a history here. I am part of this landscape. I have forged it, shaped it, and renewed it time and again. At times, I have...

Editeur : Vagrant Press
Parution : 2021-09-30

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Lee Gowan’s new novel, an audacious sequel to Sinclair Ross’ prairie classic, As for Me and My House, is about a man who is in trouble in love and work—a darkly funny cautionary tale for our times. "A preposterous, pan-Canadian tale, straight-faced, that evolves into a...

Editeur : Thistledown Press
Parution : 2021-09-30

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The hilarious story of an unlikely group of Indigenous dancers who find themselves thrown together on a performance tour of Europe The Tour is all prepared.The Prairie Chicken dance troupe is all set for a fifteen-day trek through Europe, performing at festivals and...

Editeur : Freehand Books
Parution : 2021-09-27

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A perennial favourite."Charming, wry, and believable." — Quill & QuireRiel Nason’s novel The Town That Drowned debuted in 2011 to glowing reviews and a flurry of awards, including a Commonwealth Book Prize. Nason’s evocation of the awkwardness of childhood, the thrill...

Editeur : Goose Lane Editions
Parution : 2021-09-21

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Winner, McNally Robinson Book of the Year AwardOne of 49th Shelf's Books of the YearIn Out of Mind, David Bergen delves into the psyche of Lucille Black, mother, grandmother, lover, psychiatrist, and analyst of self, who first appeared in Bergen’s bestselling novel The...

Editeur : Goose Lane Editions
Parution : 2021-09-14

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When a young woman is subjected to a violent attack, the impact of colonialism, patriarchy, and who we choose to love are thrown into sharp relief. Daria is an immigrant woman living in Toronto, and as she begins to tell her story, the reader is pulled into different...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2021-06-24

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Nadia Comaneci’s gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook—as he likes to remind us—he...

Editeur : Qc Fiction
Parution : 2021-06-15

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