It is the summer of 1935, while young Doug Sayers is spending the summer going to movies and sneaking cigarettes and his friend Babe Roothe is disc...

Based on the novel by Bruce Allen Powe, 'The Aberhart Summer' is a dark 'coming of age' story where desperation, secrets and tragedy affect the liv...

This finely crafted collection of Kreisel's short fiction written between 1954 and 1980 explores our cultural identity and relationships between pe...

Crafted from archives, interviews, memories, and bankers' boxes of papers sent to the author during the years before her death, Always Someone to K...

A tribute to a well-loved professor, mentor, and friend. Includes a eulogy by Robert Kroetsch, three chapters of personal observations of a life im...

A passionate meditation on the meeting of life and literature, and a text of rumination, invention, and rhapsody, 'Apocrypha' celebrates tradition ...

The first book-length commentary on twentieth-century Pacific Northwest writing, The Arbutus/Madrone Files explores the dynamics of the Pacific Nor...

A heart-warming and humorous novel about living life to the fullest and the joy and frustration of human relationships. The novel celebrates all th...

Come along for a ride on the road as a rookie behind the big wheel; Meet colourful dudes like Lonesome Len, The Pistol Packin' Partner, Zorro, Chro...

McTavish's second collection of stories, wisdom, and warnings about the trucking life. For a journey from a winter colder than a banker's handshake...

Days before Easter in a small Manitoba town, little Donna Desjardins begins bleeding from her palms, then the soles of her feet, and then around th...

This brand new edition features the plays that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright and gained her many accolades, among them,...

A deadly scandal surrounding a controversial land development casts a shadow over the annual Salt Spring Island theatre festival. While Constable D...

On a stormy night in 1977 the beautiful and troubled, Tina Van Buren dies violently in what is ruled a suicide. Many years later, still haunted by ...

It is said that one's first love sets the template for all loves to follow. 'The Doomed Bridegroom' narrates one woman's attraction to rebel heroes...

Have you ever walked into your living room to find an elk contentedly watching television? Meet Butter, human companion and elk extraordinaire at t...

The three plays included in this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak. They range from ...

According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In this book, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is wri...

This is a treasure trove of stories that reach beyond the buildings of timber and nails and put a human face on the history of these towering struc...

Rejecting Francis Bacon's notion that the purpose of science is to control Nature, Stan Rowe presents a collection of essays advocating companionin...

This book chronicles women whose lives are on the brink of change, for better or worse. Though the characters are from all walks of life, they shar...

Detective Lane is back, tracking down trouble on the streets of Calgary with his sharp-eyed partner Harper in tow. The duo must find the missing da...

For David Belke, writing plays took a new direction when he began thinking about smaller characters -- ones with modest dreams and quiet ambitions....

One day in 1897, as the huge carnival big-top swooshed upward, a child came flying out of the folds of the tent and landed softly in the straw on t...

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 ...