Fiction: narrative themes

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The Island of Books

By (author) Dominique Fortier
Translated by Rhonda Mullins
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

A rich portrait of the beauty of words – painted by a 15th-century illiterate scribe.

A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, ...

Rich and Poor

By (author) Jacob Wren
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Who hasn’t, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire? Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature ...

Walt

From critically acclaimed author Russell Wangersky, comes a dark, psychological thriller about a man named Walt, a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave in the store and discard ...

Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder, The

By (author) Ashis Gupta
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Based on a true story, The Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder is the ironic and tragic tale of a young German mesmerized by the Hitler Youth aura who finds himself on the Russian front where he is taken ...

Fugitive Horizons

By (author) Henry Beissel
Categories: Poetry
Series: Essential Poets Series

These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time. The counter-intuitive insights of modern science here become ...

Ashoona, Daughter of the Winds

By (author) Yvonne Harris
Categories: Historical fiction

Based on the inspiring, true story of a precocious young Inuit girl who is abandoned and left to fend for herself in the unforgiving Arctic North. This coming-of-age tale celebrates the indomitable will ...

Annabel

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, ...

De Niro's Game ed 1 /tp

By (author) Rawi Hage
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. In Rawi Hage’s unforgettable novel, winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two ...

The Milk Chicken Bomb

Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Shortlisted for the Amazon. ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award

The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it’s winter, ...