Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing over 300 books by over 150 mostly unheralded aboriginal authors. Taking the rea...

Set in the present day, John Wilson's young adult novel 'Adrift in Time' explores the tensions in family life between parents and children. It also...

Adultery with its pleasure, pain and outrage! No one writes the poetry of adultery as does Nancy Holmes. For her guide, she takes the poet Ovid who...

One of the greatest mad, sad literary love affairs of the 20th century was that between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In her collection of poe...

This is a collection of unusually rich poems that are both proto- and post-colonial. The title itself -- melding the two words "anachronism" and "c...

Time touches everything, and in doing so changes everything. This book examines the challenges, transformations and surprises wrought by change, an...

Arrow through the Axes concludes the "Odyssey of a Slave" trilogy that began with the Red Maple-nominated Torn from Troy, retelling Homer's Odyssey...

The book explores the relentlessness of mercy permeating the natural world, opening it to mystery. Whether the poems reclaim biblical stories or th...

"BackBench" has appeared daily for almost twenty years in the Globe and Mail, both as a comic strip and as a panel cartoon. With his witty, irrever...

In this new edition of his second collection of short stories, we travel with Jack Hodgins as he extends his earlier themes. There are still the un...

In this collection of poems, Inge Israel works through Samuel Beckett's letters, his biographies, and his actual plays and novels to probe the imag...

Ann Walsh has selected fourteen captivating stories written by accomplished authors from across Canada for this historical anthology. Each of the s...

The testimony of survivors is the ultimate refutation of claims that the Holocaust did not occur. In this profoundly honest Holocaust memoir, Miche...

In this best-seller, thirty-six Canadian war brides recount their early lives, their involvement in wartime duties, the magical/funny moments when ...

These poems, spare and nuanced, explore the borrowed rooms we inhabit in personal relationships: the temporary homes of marriage and parenting; the...

Ages 10 years & Over. This is the story a thirteen-year-old white boy, the son of United Empire Loyalists, who has been captured and adopted by...

In his autobiography, John Koerner explores the underpinnings of his long life as a painter in a lavishly illustrated art book with full-page colou...

In Jack Hodgins' new novel, Cadillac Cathedral, he is at his humorous best in describing the eccentric but lovable characters in the little town of...

In his fifth popular book about language, Howard Richler moves from A to Z with one specially chosen word for every letter of the alphabet. What es...

The remarkable account of Hamilton Mack Laing’s grueling expedition to the summit of Mount Logan. Naturalist and cinematographer, Hamilton Mack La...

What does Jacques Casanova, demonstrably the world's greatest lover, have to say to heterosexual men of the 21st century? Do his celebrated memoirs...

Envied by people around the world, Cascadia -- which includes British Columbia, Washington and Oregon -- is remarkable for its mountains, evergreen...