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Princess of Aminabad

By (author) Sudhir Jain
Categories: Historical fiction

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 ...

The Raids

By (author) Mick Lowe
Categories: Adventure fiction

Ghosts of Smyrna, The

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 ...

The Roof Walkers

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

By (author) Bill Rowe
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

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 ...

Dance, Gladys, Dance

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 ...

The Wolsenburg Clock

By (author) Jay Ruzesky
Edited by Sean Virgo
Categories: Fiction

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 ...

The Beautiful Children

By (author) Michael Kenyon
Categories: Fiction

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 ...

The Seary Line

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 ...

Stunt

By (author) Claudia Dey
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

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 ...