Set in contemporary Turkey, The Infidel weighs the elements of truth that flow out of Turkish consciousness in the wake of its historical massacres. In a culture where civic events, history and theology, ...
Against a backdrop of traditional Cree mythology, Johnson’s novel creates a tangled murder chronicle and harrowing tale of four Cree brothers, bound to each other through family and tradition, separated ...
W. O. Mitchell’s critically acclaimed novel, The Kite, is a humorous yet touching story of a journalist’s worst nightmare. Set in the Prairie backwater of Shelby, Alberta, seasoned reporter and minor ...
DANCING IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND is a novel about the horrors of the European witch persecutions as revealed through Eva Rosen, a young widow accused of witchcraft, her persecutor Wilhelm Hampelmann, and ...
The repercussions of Hazel Boone’s lifelong weakness for temptation percolates down through generations wounding everyone in her path, including her son, the painter David Boone and his young apprentice, ...
Set in the fictional Ontario town of Elgin at the beginning of the twentieth century, this 1904 novel was in its own time addressed largely to British readers. It has since become a Canadian classic, ...
Resting on what was left of the bench was something else, lighter in shade than the background, round, about the size of a cabbage. There were two large holes close together, a smaller pair below, then ...
Imagine Douglas Coupland writing a Kurt Vonnegut novel in hypertext. The outcome: Garbage Head, a daring postmodern novel written almost entirely in sentence-length paragraphs which examines the promiscuity ...
Douglas Glover’s raucous first novel was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and sold out its first and only print run in just one month. Now mystery fans and readers of literary fiction ...
Against a background of poitical and racial strife in colonial Guyana, as British rule gradually winds down, and while in the thick of domestic strife between his mother and his philandering, free-spirit ...