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An Ordinary Violence

Terrible things happen side by side with the ordinary.

Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. But when Dawn's seemingly perfect life in ...

Tales for Late Night Bonfires

Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction

These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really ...

Cold Edge of Heaven

By (author) Whit Fraser
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Abandoned at a desolate Arctic outpost and haunted by memories of forbidden desire, Constable Will Grant preserves his sanity by investigating the mysterious deaths of two troubled Royal Canadian Mounted ...

All the Quiet Places

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English Prize
Shortlisted ...

Tainna

By (author) Norma Dunning
Categories: Short stories

Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly ...

Hunter with Harpoon

By (author) Markoosie Patsauq
Translated by Valerie Henitiuk & Marc-Antoine Mahieu
Categories: Fiction

A new, more accurate translation (from the original Ikuktitut text) of the acclaimed 1970 novel. Published 50 years ago as Harpoon of the Hunter, Patsauq’s novel helped establish Indigenous fiction ...

Chasing Painted Horses

When Ralph Thomas, an Indigenous policeman, comes across graffiti of a horse in an alleyway, he is stopped in his tracks. A half-asleep Indigenous homeless man sees Ralph’s reaction and over a hot coffee ...

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik)

Finalist for the 2021 Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples' Writing Award

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) weaves the stories of a group of women committed to helping one another. Despite abuse experienced ...

Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a

By (author) Katłıà
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katłıà. Set in Canada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark ...

I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi?

By (author) An Antane Kapesh
Translated by Sarah Henzi
Categories: Indigenous peoples
Series: Indigenous Studies

Quebec author An Antane Kapesh's two books, Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979), are among the foregrounding works by Indigenous women in Canada. This English translation ...