The first time Harry Short rides into battle—in 1895, at the beginning of the Boer War—it's to win the heart of Margaret Roll. Nineteen years later, at the start of World War One, he enlists again, this time to escape her. With Margaret, Harry creates a family rich in character whose story spans generations and continents, traveling from Cape Town to Winnipeg to Flanders’ Fields. Harry’s family arrives to Canada in 1910 as prairie homesteaders, witnesses the Winnipeg Riot of 1919, survives...

Lucien and Olivia by André Narbonne, author of Twelve Miles to Midnight, is a comic statement on the beautiful waywardness of life. Built on scenes of discovery and error, the novel satirizes the transactional view of human relations that has elbowed its way into our lives by way of contemporary political discourse. The novel is set in the 1980s before cell phones, personal computers, and Facebook “likes.” Lucien is a marine engineer on a Canadian tanker. While on one-mon...