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In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank ...

In the 21st century, Rebecca Howell is transfixed by the beauty of Giovanni Strazza’s masterpiece the Veiled Virgin. She discovers that although the work is signed by Strazza, it is not listed with ...

It’s 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Enman brings Una to his childhood home in rural Barrein, Nova Scotia, where Una feels increasingly trapped, and longs for the city life she once had. ...

To whom do we offer refuge — and why?

After a life that rubbed up against the century’s great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, ...

Rumours of the Second Coming of Christ abound in the City of Masks. Michele Archenti, publisher, former priest, and current confidant to the mysterious skeleton-bearer Rodolpho, finds himself swept away ...

August 1945, Soviet agent Freda Linton’s world is about to fall apart. She’s spent WWII infiltrating the highest levels of the Canadian government for Moscow’s military police but cipher clerk Igor ...

This story—part memoir, part historical fiction—spans a period of one hundred years, from 1914 to 2014, with the main emphasis being on the years of the two World Wars. It concentrates on the lives ...

This story—part memoir, part historical fiction—spans a period of one hundred years, from 1914 to 2014, with the main emphasis being on the years of the two World Wars. It concentrates on the lives ...

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 ...

This extraordinary magic-realist novel by Singapore-born author Lydia Kwa employs and subverts traditional tropes of Chinese mythology to tell a tale with a wickedly modern sensibility. A subversive, ...