Love. Death. Stalin. Dentistry. The sixteen stories in A Short Journey by Car give us a cast of characters struggling with forces that perplex and threaten to consume them. From a turn-of-the-century Parisian ...
M. T. Dohaney has been described as Newfoundland’s answer to Frank McCourt. Her first novel, The Corrigan Women, a richly textured portrayal of outport life, is a contemporary classic. Long out-of-print, ...
Winner of the 1979 Governor General’s Award for fiction, Antonine Maillet’s virtuoso creation, The Tale of Don L’Orignal, is now back in print. Maillet’s tale begins one day, not so very long ...
The Sun on the Mountains series traces the James family from the loss of their Quaker bank during the American Revolution to their oil company headquarters in present day Calgary. Without stopping a moment ...
The Streets of Winter is a fast-paced, intricately crafted novel of life in the city. The characters find in Montreal the anonymity they crave, bartering their identities for the chance to reinvent themselves. ...
Hot on the heels of Douglas Glover’s Governor General’s Award for fiction for his riotous novel, Elle, Goose Lane has brought back into print Glover’s hilarious novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, ...
Everything that any one of us can do to help or hinder his fellow man has been done, at least once, by a Greek. – Margaret Yourcenar,
Memoirs of Hadrian Greece is the Western world’s cultural birthplace. ...
A remarkable debut collection, Kelly Cooper’s Eyehill provides a multi-hued portrait of a small prairie town. Too small to support a high school or a drugstore, Eyehill is populated by men and women, ...
In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France’s most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version of this novel, Pé-la-Charette. In her acceptance speech, ...