A fascinating period novel by the author of the best-selling author of Isolde's Dream and Other Stories. Set in early 20th century India, this is a story of the struggles of a woman of extraordinary strength ...
Aya Katerina, a neighbourhood in Ottoman Smyrna at the end of World War I. Through the eyes of Niko "the Orphan"—his Armenian father was taken away by the soldiers—we see this close world going about ...
Christmas, 1864, in the last years of the civil war, a twenty-year-old Irish Canadian, Eoin O'Donoghue, is newly hired as the personal secretary to the prospective head of the embryonic Irish Republican ...
Rosie O’Dell is a creature of beauty, brilliance . . . and unspeakable secrets. When she was young, terrible crimes had been committed against her. Tom Sharpe becomes Rosie O’Dell’s high school ...
WINNER OF THE 2013 STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR.
Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a string of failed relationships and the half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter; in front of her ...
As Second World War bombs terrorize a small Austrian city near the Italian border, a man wants desperately to save a 600-year-old astronomical clock found there. The clock has been constructed and refurbished ...
A man wakes up in a hospital with one word in his head: Sapporo. He dimly recalls this as the place where he was raised, and it becomes his name and identity. Like an immigrant without language or memory ...
Nearing death, an old man laments his poor choice of a wife, and has orchestrated a situation where he will see his childhood love one last time. From these circumstances emerges Stella, a woman who grapples ...
Nominated for the Amazon. ca First Novel Award
Eugenia Ledoux, nine years old, wakes to a note from her father: ‘gone to save the world. sorry. yours, sheb wooly ledoux. asshole. ’ Eugenia is left ...