Fox moves on quick and elegant feet through the terror and exhilaration of Winnipeg’s 1919 General Strike, the most turbulent period of the city’s history. In a novel of remarkably vivid, kinetic ...

Lucknow in 1856 is the most opulent city in India. If the English take over, the royal family and centuries of rich, cosmopolitan culture will disappear. Amah, personal bodyguard to the King, wants to ...

In post-WWII Italy, Passero, having lost his parents, kidnaps an orphaned girl and offers her up in exchange for his own freedom. His actions create a connection culminating in an adulterous affair in ...

Fleeing Stalin’s advance into Lithuania, shaken by communism and war, four refugees end up in Toronto in 1949. Trying to resume normal lives, longing for their country’s freedom, they wait to go home. ...

In the tumultuous months leading to the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, seven-year-old Tomi Wolfstein and his parents are forced to make many sacrifices. Freedom carries a terrible price.

Set in postwar Communist ...

“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 ...

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, ...

A fascinating period novel by the author of the best-selling author of Isolde's Dream and Other Stories. Set in early 20^th 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 ...

Continuing its tradition of publishing first novels by established poets, Coteau presents the story of Constable Leslie Simpson, a Manitoba member of the North-West Mounted Police, who takes a day off ...