Carmen and Griffin, young and white, are head-over-heels in love. When Carmen turns into a black woman, Griffin thrills at a love turned exotic. Bu...

In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka, one of Canada's most important avant-garde painters, and a tape recorder and in her native Japan...

This is the first full-length collection of poems by poet and scholar Jason Dewinetz. From the sun drenched Okanagan Valley of B.C. to "Géricault's...

RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore is jolted from his mundane policing duties in the small Monashee Mountain village of Bear Creek by the discovery of a ...

Chris Craddock tackles the weighty issues of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse and sex and pregnancy in the lives of teens and their families with hu...

NeXt Fest is a showcase for emerging professional artists in theatre, film, music, dance, and visual art. Included in the anthology is: SuperEd (Ch...

Pacific Rim Letters by Roy Kiyooka at once a document and a creative work, personal meditation and cultural manifesto, it engages the reader with K...

This new edition, by two-time Governor General's Award-winner Rudy Wiebe, is the first book in NeWest's 'Landmark Editions' Series. First released ...

Ordinarily Detective Lane has a knack for discovering the whereabouts of missing persons. But the city's latest victim has disappeared without a tr...

From one of Canada's foremost poet/novelists and feminist critics—a collection of essays spanning over fifteen years.

This is a story about survival -- the survival of a people and their way of life. Focusing on the history of the Sahtuot'ine of Great Bear Lake and...

The gripping story of the 1997 race from Dyea, Alaska to Dawson City, that re-enacted the Gold Rush. John Firth went in search of the experience th...

This is Barclay's disturbing exploration into the internal forces that drove a quiet young man to commit one of the most senseless mass murders in ...

Lyle Victor Albert draws upon his own experiences growing up and coming of age. While dealing with the typical challenges of being a teenager -- th...

Snow Bodies is a memoir of a young woman's life on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver in the early 1970s, in the vein of Evelyn Lau's Runaway. Di...

This is a retrospective selection of poems by Governor General's Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie. Arranged in chronological order from 1965 right...

Rubis Caillou Morin is a widow, midwife, and faith healer from the Gaspé. Before her untimely death in 1873, she sends her young son west -- to be ...

This is a collection of three plays that span the career of award-winning playwright Stewart Lemoine and provide a taste of the delightful variety ...

Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of a...

Anna Gareau arrives in Victoria, BC, with two things to hide -- an illegal pistol, and the ability to read people's pasts by touching certain objec...

Transcanada Letters by Roy Kiyooka was a landmark when it first appeared in 1975. Almost thirty years later, it remains one of the most remarkable ...

Journey along Vancouver's colourful city streets, past its landmarks, through the sounds and smells of Chinatown. Ramble along the seawall on Engli...

Intended to encourage Albertans to value a natural resource taken for granted, this book puts water in the context of its effect on our daily lives...

This is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice. Andy Weaver explores the boundaries of the poetic form to create a playful ...