Story of a chance encounter in Manhattan between a lonely young divorcee and the teenage boy she encounters. Events heat up considerably as more and more partners get added into the mix. Much-liked title first published in 1971 by the Olympia Press u...
Russell Smith’s highly praised new novel features some typically caustic satire, alongside a deep and melancholy awareness of the force of desire in our lives. The combination of wit and perception in Muriella Pent -- and its brilliant dialogue, be...
This is a fast moving story of strained relationships, drugs, young love, the criminal underworld and escapism in which the author cleverly mixes the real with the surreal. Michael and Tony Geraghty are brothers, but there the similarity ends. Michae...
Imagine living in a world where your inner voice; your private, involuntary thoughts and comments are 'heard' by others. Most relationships would become impossible. Society would start to gradually break down.In a fragmented future world, where civil...
Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize.Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015In the stories o...
In the year 15540 the earth is quite different. The few humans that survived “Pollution man’s” poisoning of the earth have evolved into specialized creatures but now only living off what nature offers. But through all the changes the earth and ...
A young girl and her family escapes the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia to neighboring Albania. A talented violinist, Dijana is recruited by the exiled Albanian government and the U.S. to use her skills in a dangerous plot to arm and recruit fighters t...
Now in its 48th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis...
Argentum's Song is a story of dreams come true. There is a prophesy that the seed of Simon, a True Warrior dedicated wholly to Ferus, will bring deliverance from darkness. Simon dreams that his son, Argent, will become t...
A reluctant leader in a dying world. But she may be their only hope… Estingai is devastated. Sole survivor after a mass assassination targeting her faction, the grieving widow unwillingly takes charge of a rebel team seeking allied aid. B...
We are something more, though few realize it. Nevisi is apprenticed to one of the greatest Auroramancers of her time, yet she still feels her abilities are stifled. She is a full Auroraborn, granted the rare ability to use all twelve powers inst...