Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

Showing 1-7 of 7 titles.
Sort by:

The Animals

By (author) Cary Fagan
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. Yet life is far from idyllic; he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving ...

You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.

By (author) Sheung-King
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

A translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each ...

The Wild Heavens

The Wild Heavens is a graceful and compelling debut novel that pays tribute to the magic and unfathomable mystery of the natural world. Sandy Langley’s life has been haunted by a tragic disappearance—until ...

Carpe Fin

This unique graphic novel, by acclaimed Indigenous artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, blends Asian manhwa/manga with the Haida artistic and oral tradition in one stunning hand-painted volume. The story ...

Bezimena

The jumping-off point of this graphic novel is the myth of Artemis and Siproites, in which a young man is turned into a woman as a punishment for the attempted rape of one of Artemis' virgin cohorts. ...

Blood Fable

A utopian community is on the verge of collapse as the charismatic leader’s followers come to realize they’ve been exploited. At the same time, an 11-year-old son of one adherent learns his mother ...

Fifteen Dogs

An utterly convincing and moving look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.

WINNER OF CANADA READS 2017

WINNER OF THE 2015 GILLER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE 2015 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE

FINALIST ...