Shortlisted, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the FantasticLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin International Literary AwardFrom the acclaimed author of Daniel O'Thunder comes a rollicking, bawdy, and haunting novel about love and redemption, death and resurrection.The great metropolis of London swaggers with Regency abandon as nineteen-year-old Will Starling returns from the Napoleonic Wars having spent five years assist...

The return of the western — with a definite Canadian twist. The man, the myth, the gun-toting legend.The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy.In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother Purcell disappears into a winter storm in the mountains of British Columbia, while hunting down his outlawed half-brother. Sixteen years later, the wreck of Purcell resurfaces – derelict, homeless and one-eyed – in a San Franci...

Canada Unscripted: Conversations with Canadian Media Icons showcases twenty-one of the most influential voices in Canadian film and broadcasting. In these intimate and often surprising interviews, celebrated actors, journalists, directors, and producers share stories that are raw, funny, and deeply revealing. At the heart of the book are the CBC and the National Film Board: two institutions that helped shape Canada's cultural identity. These conversations offer behind-the-scenes i...

The Sisters Brothers meets Master and Commander in Robert Hough’s rollicking and raucous new historical novel.The year is 1664, and Benny Wand, a young thief and board game hustler, is arrested in London for illegal gaming. Deported to the city of Port Royal, Jamaica, known as “the wickedest city on earth,” Wand is forced by his depleted circumstances to join a raid on the Spanish city of Villahermosa. The mission is a perilous success, and Wand attracts the atten...

André Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST OF CANADA FICTION PRIZEONE OF THE GLOBE AND MAIL'S GLOBE 100: BEST BOOKS OF 2014There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whomt...

“Why, when we take such care to disguise our true selves from others, would we expect them to be an open book to us?”Harry Steen, a businessman travelling in Mexico, ducks into an old bookstore to escape a frightening deluge. Inside, he makes a serendipitous discovery: a mid-nineteenth-century account of a sinister storm cloud that plagued an isolated Scottish village and caused many gruesome and unexplainable deaths. Harry knows the village well; he travelled there as a young man ...

She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. *Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause.Laird Hunt's dazzling novel throws a light on the adventurous women who chose to fight instead of st...

A New Face of Fiction for 2015, All True Not a Lie in It is pioneer Daniel Boone's life, told in his voice--a tall tale like no other, startling, funny, poignant, romantic and brawling, set during the American Revolutionary War and hinging on Boone's capture by the Shawnee.Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him. Debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony, through 2 stints captured by Indians as he attempte...

A Sunburst Award nominee: "Unease haunts this southern gothic . . . An intense debut bolstered by a powerful sense of place" ( The Globe and Mail, Toronto).Gripping, fast-paced, gorgeously written, and with unforgettable characters, Cauchemar tells the story of twenty-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a Louisianan swamp after her adopted mother and protector dies. Hannah falls in love with Callum, an easy-going boat ca...

An "intimate, lovely novel . . . about the pain and joys of motherhood," from the New York Times –bestselling author of Practical Magic ( People ).Rae Perry has been in love with Jessup since high school. Two weeks before her eighteenth birthday, they ran away from Boston together and have been moving ever since—five states in seven ye...

Just as thirteen year-old Edith Walker is about to leave childhood behind, she thinks she spots a unicorn high on a slope while hiking. Her daydreamer father Henry convinces her that what she’s seen is real. Edith’s sighting of the fabled creature – and her unfailing belief that the imaginary creature will eventually be found – sets in motion a series of events that impact the next decade of her life.Edith grows up in her big sister Vivienne’s shadow. While the beautiful Viv is for...

From the bestselling and award-winning author of Greenwood, If I Fall, If I Die is Michael Christie's remarkable debut novel, full of dazzling prose, unforgettable characters, and a poignant and heartfelt depiction of coming of age.Will has never been Outside, at least not since he can remember. For most of his young life, he has lived happily and safely inside his small house with his mother, a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who ...