Frank Davey is both participant and witness in his provocative examination of the nature of literary power as a part of general cultural and politi...

Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture is the first book to gather together essays by Barbara Godard, one of the leading and...

Cole Blackwater's life isn't what it used to be. Once a political superstar within Ottawa's environmental movement, he now runs a nearly defunct co...

Dragan was a Yugoslav peasant who flirted with the ideals of Communism and aspired to become a teacher. Instead, he became a slave in a German labo...

Since its publication in 1994, Hiromi Goto's "Chorus of Mushrooms" has been recognised as a true classic of Asian Canadian literature. One of the i...

Tracks the patchwork musings of Leah, who, at twenty-four years old and two years into a relationship, discovers she has breast cancer. Told in fra...

In her debut collection, Canadian National Slam Champion Nisha Patel commands her formidable insight and youthful, engaged voice to relay experienc...

This book brings together, for the first time, the complete contents of the poetry editions published by Pat Lowther. All currently out-of-print, t...

Crisp confronts the unspeakable parts of memory, meditating on characters caught in isolation and struggling to make sense of grief, disappointment...

27-year-old Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a string of failed relationships and half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter; in front...

Eight months after his own brush with death over Alberta's Cardinal Divide, Cole Blackwater has learned that his good friend and former client Arch...

This book introduces readers to the colourful characters who populate the furniture moving trade, a male-dominated world of labour with relatively ...

"When he met her she was a beauty queen, Who wanted something more. Now she's hanging out with him In front of the liquor store." It's hard enough ...

This story of family and identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through family history, memory, and the occasional...

Taking its inspiration from director Werner Herzog's concept of "ecstatic truth" and recalling D W Griffith's silent film classic Intolerance, poet...

Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong Highland lass Mary Stewart is a vibrant woman forced into the world's oldest profession in order to provide for her ail...

Emma Phillips is 35 years old, divorced, depressed... adrift. But when extraordinary circumstances force her to take care of three traumatised, new...

This is a collection of thought-provoking essays, short pieces, and reviews that explore and uncover the intimate connections between humans and th...

In this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and rela...

In his second collection of stories, author and filmmaker R W Gray (Crisp) once again finds the place where the beautiful, the strange, and the sur...

When she makes the chance discovery of a framed sepia photograph of her grandmother and her twin sister, RCMP Constable Arabella Dryvynsydes decide...