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The Marrow Thieves

Winner of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award (Young People's Literature - Text)
Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize
Winner of the 2018 Sunburst Award
Winner of the 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award
Winner ...

Acqua Sacra

Acqua Sacra is about corruption—construction industry corruption (the novel ends with the establishment of the Charbonneau inquiry), but corruption on many other fronts—sport, taxes, illegal immigration, ...

The Dancehall Years

“A major accomplishment. ” – Jack Hodgins, author of Broken Ground

This enriching, complex family saga and interracial drama brims with beautiful prose. It begins one summer on Bowen Island during ...

Brink of Freedom, The

As worlds collide, the very human cost of war is revealed.

When a well-meaning Canadian aid worker in Athens decides to take a young refugee boy into her care, she is unexpectedly jailed and accused of ...

Patrin

A jewel of a novella, a luminous and moving glimpse into the grand themes of exile and homecoming across continents.

Patrin is the old word for the clues Romany left for their travelling fellows—a handful ...

Requiem for the Last Indian

By (author) Ashis Gupta
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

A tale of love, injustice and redemption that adds poignancy to Canada’s current challenge of Truth and Reconciliation.

The novel, unlikely story of Rosie and Charlie, is a bittersweet tale of love, ...

Tartuffe

By (author) Andy Jones
Categories: Fiction

Molière’s comedy classic is ingeniously re-imagined in Andy Jones’s hilarious adaptation, set in 1930s Newfoundland. The original Tartuffe, by France’s most celebrated comic playwright, is set ...

Free Like Sunshine

All Katrina really wants is a home, a forever home where she can live with her three sisters. She’s even willing to give up her Disney-princess dream of living happily ever after for the chance. It ...

Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder, The

By (author) Ashis Gupta
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Based on a true story, The Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder is the ironic and tragic tale of a young German mesmerized by the Hitler Youth aura who finds himself on the Russian front where he is taken ...

Rite of James Biddle, The

By (author) Andrew Bailey
Categories: Humorous fiction

The Reverend James Biddle loves good books and traditional values, fearing the brave new digital world and the interweb. He’s thirty-six. He fights modernization. Fights and fails to stop his own St. ...