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Fairy Ring

By (author) Martine Desjardins
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel
Categories: Fiction

In 1895, the arctic explorer Captain Ian Ryder has let his house in Blackpool on the Nova Scotia coast to the recently married Clara Weiss, who is about to become the compass of a social circle far too ...

Plenty of Harm in God

By (author) Dana Bath
Categories: Fiction: general and literary
Series: New Writers

Plenty of Harm in God is the story of Clare, twenty years old and accidentally pregnant, and her return from her native Newfoundland to Inisheer, Ireland. The goal of the journey is to fulfill a pact ...

Home and Back

By (author) Arnold Harrichand Itwaru
Categories: Fiction

After residing uneasily in Canada for over twenty years, Deo returns to Guyana, having dreampt always of coming home, but finds there a disconcerting homelessness where every item of his memory has been ...

Behind the Face of Winter

By (author) H Nigel Thomas
Categories: Fiction

Pedro Moore leaves the nuturing yet destitute home of his grandmother on Isabela Island to join his mother Isis, who works as a domestic in Montreal. Pedro brings with him the memories of his island, ...

16 Categories of Desire

By (author) Douglas Glover
Categories: Short stories

Douglas Glover’s collection of stories mezmerizes like no other. A sheer tour-de-force, the collection features eleven new stories that demonstrate that Glover is capable of writing like no other writer. ...

A Fit Month for Dying

A Fit Month for Dying is the third book in M. T. Dohaney’s highly praised trilogy about the women of Newfoundland’s outports. Fans of The Corrigan Women and To Scatter Stones will embrace this new ...

Jackrabbit Moon

By (author) Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos
Categories: Fiction

This hard-hitting novel explores the gritty underbelly of contemporary urban life revealing the shocking chasm between demonized media images and the everyday life of the uneducated poor. At the centre ...

Skin

By (author) Bonnie Bowman
Categories: Fiction

Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, ‘Skin’ is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love ...

My Brahmin Days

“With her I immediately sensed that it had to do with who I was, where I’d been born, and where I’d been living these last twenty-five hears. This was the first time she was meeting me… ‘He’s ...

Jahaji

Edited by Frank Birbalsingh
Categories: Fiction

Indians have lived in the Caribbean for more than a hundred and sixty years, ever since they took to the ships to work on the sugar plantations. Jahaji (the term meaning "ship-traveler") brings together ...