Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and an international bestseller, Patrick deWitt’s brilliant and darkly comic novel is now a major motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer.

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A stunning debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Little Fish explores the winter of discontent in the life of one transgender woman as her ...

Herb Carter’s days as an aspiring rock star are over. His mother no longer remembers his name and seems trapped in the past. Jamie Fitzpatrick’s second novel weaves in and out of time to effortlessly ...

Naomi Lennox struggles with two roles: promising writer, and dutiful wife to unambitious and proper Arthur. First published in 1926, Madge Macbeth’s Shackles magnifies the middle-class power and gender ...

Teenage years can be complicated, even when you haven’t been abandoned by your mother at age ten. It is the 1980s and teenage Gemma lives with her well-meaning father, Nathaniel, and tries to come to ...

Sunday’s father is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. Devastated doesn’t ...

Karen Hofmann’s empathetic and cathartic novel, What Is Going to Happen Next, pieces together the lives of five members of the Lund family following their enforced dispersal after the father’s death ...

Young, free-spirited Maya Mubeen leaves behind the pressures of family, marriage, and tradition for a life of experience and adventure, proving to herself and her mother that she is anything but a typical ...

Gillian Best, winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Short Fiction, weaves a striking literary debut centred on one woman’s relationship to the sea in this sweeping intergenerational family saga.

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Cadillac Road is the story of Sharon Desjardins, from her earliest childhood memories of leaving Northern Québec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and Crystal Beach with her mother and younger ...