Product Description: For The Widow Tree, Nicole Lundrigan steps away from her usual locale (the East Coast) and sets the story in 1950’s post-war Yugoslavia. The finding of a long lost stash of Roman coins by three childhood friends precipitates the unraveling of relationships as they argue over what to do with the new found wealth...read more

Product Description: The Globe and Mail Top 100 Quill & Quire Book of the Year Amazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100 Now magazine, Top 10 Books Chatelaine, Favourite Books of 2013 Hailed over and over as the best book of 2013. "This was, hands down, the best book I read in 2013...read more

Product Description: Set in 1906, Dollybird tells the story of pregnant Moira, banished by her embarrassed family to the pioneer lands of the Canadian prairies. Determined to find redemption in the face of derision, Moira faces impossible choices with consequences beyond anything she can imagine.

Product Description: Peter Bennet reports from the border between plausible narrative and the wilder territories of the imagination. This book brings together his best work of the past fifteen years, including poems from his T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted collection, The Glass Swarm, and his four major sequences, The Long Pack, Jigger Nods, Folly Wood, and Bobby Bendick's Ride, as well as new work...read more

Product Description:   In 1908, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee experiences an unfortunate fainting spell. Five years later, he finally returns to his senses, but has no recollection of these lost years of his life. As he attempts to discover what happened during this time, he becomes increasingly tormented by vivid, disturbing dreams—dreams that will lead him on a journey through space and time to unlock the secrets of his past and of the universe...read more

Product Description: Meet Marnie McPhee, daughter, sister, aspiring astronaut, and possible Martian. Convinced she is not like the rest of her boring family, nine-year-old Marnie McPhee decides it’s time to leave Earth and take her place among the stars...read more

Product Description: With unsentimental prose and ironic dialogue, Katie Boland brings to life a variety of characters who all have one thing in common—a need for something more. A literary debut by a refreshing new voice in fiction, the stories in Eat Your Heart Out are about the haunted and heartbroken, about dreamers, losers and love-lost souls...read more

Product Description: Wry and searching, wise and playful, Daniel Karasik's poetic voice is singular, the voice of an old soul navigating contemporary straits. Witty delight and precocious insight commingle in refreshingly accesible poems whose thrust is philosophical even when the poet is at his most irreverent...read more

Product Description: Lillian and Audrey hatch a plot to escape from Tranquil Meadows Nursing Home, "borrow" a car, and spend their hastily planned vacation time driving to destinations west. They set out on their journey having forgotten that their memory problems might make driving and following directions difficult...read more

Product Description: A heartfelt plea to look into the death of a world-famous vintner goes hand in hand with the opportunity to attend an exclusive gourmet event in British Columbia's stunning wine country. How can overindulgent foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan resist?Sure that the award-winning owner of a family-run vineyard was murdered, Cait shares her findings with Bud Anderson, a retired homicide cop...read more

Product Description: Timely Irreverence is a collection of occasional poems that are sewn together through the inescapable intrusion of poetry itself. With circles of logic that provoke thoughtfulness, the paths of these poems are alluringly complex, and they engage through amusing points of casual living, visceral moments when poetry is permitted to intrude upon the everyday...read more