A MIRACLE OF A BOOK Two 12-year-old girls simultaneously demand a change in their lives. At this precise moment, the Angel Gabriel becomes acutely aware of their request and, in the night, visits the girls to ensure it is truly what they want. He offers them the chance to switch bodies completely – if they are still certain when they wake. The swap takes place. Giselle, an intelligent girl living in London, exchanges her life and body and mind with Minati, an orphaned girl surviving on the...

Refugee is the final exciting novel in The Sloping Meadow trilogy. This time the principal storyteller is Mahir, a 13 year-old boy who has no choice but to start out on an epic journey from war-torn Syria to try and help his mum and little brother.In this gripping adventure, he has a series of escapades, including a fight with a large brown bear in Slovenia, and is constantly either greatly helped or really mistreated by the people he meets.Lucy and her friends find him in An...

In the second thrilling adventure of The Sloping Meadow trilogy, Lucy continues as the storyteller. She with her friends experience a series of adventures. The story's exposition involves the saving of a drowning man. He is Bora, a very special man, keen to help his friend, Professor Mendoza; since he is ill, he will be sending his daughter first. This will be by a nuclear submarine. The enigmatic daughter arrives and is taken by Lucy and her friends to Box Hill, but on the visit to a Lond...

When the news breaks that the man opposite has died, Lucy, the storyteller, and her friends decide that now is the time to take the late George up on his promise that they can visit the pond to see his newts.As Giselle caresses the long, luxuriant grass in George's garden, her fingers come across a severed finger and they are now on the trail of a suspected murderer. George's ghost assists them in this thriller.With the majestic sweeping sloping meadow and its captivating bea...

A finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Minds of Winter is a mesmerizing novel about the chance meeting of two present-day travellers who expose one of the most perplexing mysteries in the history of Arctic exploration.Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada, about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both are in search of answers about a family member: Nelson for his estranged older brother, and Fay for her vanished grandfat...

***Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize*A darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity—and then her life—when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park.**Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it...

**Winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Toronto Book Award, and the Ethel Wilson Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by Globe and Mail, National Post, Guardian, Esquire, New York Public Library, NOW Magazine, Chatelaine, CBC, Quill & Quire, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Kirkus Reviews, and moreA Canada Reads FinalistA...

The Only Café is both a moving mystery in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father's death and an illuminating exploration of how the traumatic past, if left unexamined, shadows every moment of the present.Pierre Cormier had secrets. Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father, he didn't let anyone really know him. And he was especially silent about what had happened to him in Lebanon, the country he fled during civil war ...

From the author of the critically acclaimed, prizewinning and internationally bestselling The Colony of Unrequited Dreams comes an epic family mystery with a powerful, surprise ending, which features the return of the ever-fascinating Sheilagh Fielding, one of the most memorable characters in fiction.Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school in the chill hush that precedes the first storm of the winter of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car m...

Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated s...

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, ...

By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada – only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father is overcome with relief: he and his...