Product Description: The inspiring story of the first people to ride mountain bikes across the vast deserts of Australia, the dangerous bushlands of Africa, and the mountains of South America Fed up and disillusioned with corporate life, Andy persuaded Tim to leave his job and cycle around the world—convinced there could be more to life...read more

This collection features poems by contemporary poets who are also trained as scientists. The contributors' names are not given, so the selection stands or falls on its intrinsic merits, rather than on the reputation of the writers. The editors are also scientists as well as respected poets.

Product Description: English writing in Montreal has had the distinction of being isolated from the rest of the country, left to stew in its own creative juices, with very few English-language presses and little support for English work. Consequently it has developed along alternate paths and has created its own vibrant culture...read more

This diverse book of linked stories is filled with off-centre characters and their flaws and burdens. Read about a one-armed baseball player, anosmiatics, a colour blind photographer, a time pusher and his best customer, intruders, the grape-picking diaspora, the whippet police, tree planters lost in the slash, a one-handed mechanic with a reputation to uphold, and many more. Also contained in this collection are the definitive eHow-Toi guide to building a wall and tales of writers getting real jobs (William Faulkner drives a cab, Mikhail Bakhtin becomes a clown). With a craftsmanis skill, Brown moves from hilarity to foreboding, often within a single page.Critical CommentiAndy Brownis first collection of stories converges on the discarded: rooms are provisional, existing until a stranger comes to the door and leaves with the balance of the fiction in tow. What courses through his veins are imagined histories, parallel worlds into which the reader might follow, pushing aside the curtain of a familiar photo booth to enter a world of the inexplicable, where time is the drug of choice.io Anne StoneiI Can See You Being Invisible is a fine example of the kind of eunderground, i or even egutteri writing coming out of Canada. It has a stories about tree planters. It has stories where guns go off. It includes the word depanneur. Itis a kind of generational portrait....Brownis writing is not the same old same old. His is a voice struggling to articulate uniqueness.io The Danforth Review, 2004i...at the beating heart of this work of fiction are the interconnected lives of Isaak and Uzma and Antaro and Ursula, characters who seem to scrape by on the very obscurity and loneliness of their lives. The true force of I can see you being invisible lies in the minor key dignity of its characters, told in a patient, respectable prose. At its best, the writing is shadowless.io The Montreal Review of Books, Summer 2004iBrownis sentences are as crisp as his vision is opaque... Read this for its tremulous intelligence, its bravado, its confident obscurity.io Hal NiedzvieckiiRepresenting many styles, many themes, I can see you being invisible is a challenge in a good way: itis a book that makes you think about a wide range of subject matter and admire the writeris skilful hand.io Ottawa XPress, 2004iThis book of linked stories is teeming through the bars, a zoo-like shelter for deranged characters with their flaws and daily obstacles. Brown is a pimp of the odd.io The Link, Concordia, 2004iBrown has a way of making the familiar seem weird and injecting each scene with a sense of the strangeness of life.... I Can See You Being Invisible is a fine debut. io Event, 2004iPick up I Can See You Being Invisible for its keen perceptions of our urban landscape; or better yet, give it a go for Brownis revolutionary take on the short story. io Carve, Spring 2005

Product Description: This selected poems drawn from over a decade of writing confirms Brown's place as one of Britain's most interesting and exciting younger lyric poets. Notable for its ecological concerns and fascination with the natural world, Brown's work is both innovative and accessible...read more

Product Description: Andy Brown's first novel follows a sibling relationship told through vignettes, each story centred around the removal of a mole. From this premise, Brown's novel expands the associations of moles from skin disease, to the burrowing animal, to secret societies and espionage, to tell the story of familial dysfunction, culture-jamming, eco-terrorism, and regret in the lives of young adults in the 1990s...read more

Product Description: When Tessa de Loo saw Albania for the first time, no foreigners were allowed to enter. Filled with a great curiosity, longing, and a sense of wonderment by this isolated land, de Loo gazed toward the mountains that stood like "the backs of patiently waiting elephants" across the water from Corfu...read more

Product Description: Exploding with Carnivalesque and antic energy, The Fool and the Physician shows the formal range and wit of Andy Brown's poetry, from traditional lyric forms such as pantoums, sonnets and ballads, to paradelles, prayers, prose poems, and many playful devices inspired by the authors of the OuLiPo...read more

Product Description: When people go looking for hell, they go underground. Dante, Aeneas, and Odysseus all journeyed beneath the earth to find the underworld, a place where the dead are tortured according to their sins. Buffy the Vampire Slayer had to deal with a huge underground pit infested with demons below her high school called the Hellmouth...read more

Product Description: A collaboration in graphic novel format of two fathers and their anxieties raising their two young sons. In this volume they head out to the country but even there danger lurks behind every bush...

Product Description: At long last comes the first book in English from the legendary Montreal cartoonist, screenprinter, editor, and publisher! Bosse was part of the new wave of underground comics in Canada in the 1990s that included such artists as Julie Doucet and Henriette Valium...read more

Product Description: In the autumn of 2012, Maxim Februari—known until then as writer and philosopher Marjolijn Februari—announced his intention to live as a man. The news was greeted with a diversity of reactions, from curiosity to unease. These responses made it absolutely clear to Februari that most of us don’t know how to think about transsexuality...read more

Product Description: George Washington may never have told a lie, but he may be the only person—our history is littered with liars, deceivers, fraudsters, counterfeiters, and unfaithful lovers. The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers gathers 150 of them, each entry telling the intriguing tale of the liar’s motives and the people who fell for the lies...read more