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...