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Gillian Davies is six years old when her mother sends her to Croessfordd to escape the Blitz. But can she escape her child-molesting cousin Angus?

From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s - a sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll-suffused modern tragedy. For Bill Hansen, things couldn't be better.

Two years after her prospects are shattered by the bombing of Nagasaki, Hiroko Tanaka travels to Delhi in search of new beginnings and arrives in the home of her ex-fiance's half-sister, but s

Strange things are happening in town, but only Nieve seems to notice that something is up.

C.P. Boyko (Blackouts, 2009) has been nominated for the Journey Prize and published in The Walrus, PRISM International, and The New Quarterly.

The main theme comes from a tale in Boccaccio's `Decameron'; a complex plot at the conclusion of which all does indeed end well.

Rebecca Rosenblum's Once is a fiercely original and assured debut, a collection of sixteen stories portraying the constricted and confused lives of the rootless twenty-somethings'students, office t

The rubble of an ancient civilization. A village in a valley from which no one comes or goes.

Shakespeare was fascinated but not deceived by `the laughing queen that caught the world's great hands' for the theme of the tragedy is the downfall of the triple pillar of the world (Ant

Alex Pheby's 'Playthings' is a visceral and darkly comic portrait of severe mental illness based on the true story of nineteenth-century German judge and patient of Freud, Daniel Paul Schreber.

On the surface, an idyllic romance, full of happy love and optimistic philosophy of goodness...but perhaps Shakespeare had a private wink for the more sophisticated.

Psychologists are people we love to hate.

Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, these first short stories from Terry Griggs herald one of the most original voices to appear out of Canada in the last several decades.

In the world of The Reasonable Ogre, magic is nothing if not paradoxical.

Women. Young women, old women. The hair-obsessed, the politically driven, the sure-footed, the bonybutted, the awkward and compulsive and alone. Sleep-deprived and testy. Exhausted and accepting.