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The essays in this inaugural volume were commissioned from a number of outstanding writers (many of them national prize winners).

A man seeking the high life realizes too late that he has destroyed his possibilities for happiness. Four junkies wait anxiously for a drug dealer who seems to have forgotten their existence.

Lydia Buckingham is fifteen years old when her parents uproot the family and drag Lydia and her younger sister Victoria across the country to live on the abandoned family homestead in rural Saskatc

In the heady days of the 1920s Jazz Age, people went to the movies almost every day, living vicariously through their heroes: Valentino, Garbo, Fairbanks, and Pickford.

Inspector Bony and the men on a lonely sheep station await the drying up of a lake to reveal a murder.

Parallel Rivers is a collection of stories that were coaxed into existence from Kenyon’s interest in seeing what fiction might learn from film, particularly the German, French, Italian, and Japanes

Superintendent Lambert and Detective Sergeant Hook's latest investigation involves the tempting prospect of nabbing drug dealer and gangland boss James Berridge, via police informer Charlie Pe

Jerry Levy’s gritty, urban tales are driven by arresting prose and engaging human drama.

"Toil and Peaceful Life" is the axiom that lies at the heart of Doukobor spiritual, personal, and community values.

The Little Washer of Sorrows is a collection of short stories that explores what happens when the expected and usual are replaced with elements of the rare and strange.

A wealthy London suburb is no protection against crime. Gerry Frayling is trying to get fit and beautiful before her wedding to Bill Bentine, her literary agent.

Sean Johnston will leave readers smiling at the acrobatics of his words and techniques in this eagerly anticipated second short story collection after the Relit award winning A Day Does Not Go By.

Chemist Dr. Joan Parker has the ability to name more scents that just about any other person on the planet.

In this reworking of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, the magical worlds of Saami shamanism and the Kalevala coexist with the polite Victorian society of nineteenth-century Scandanavia.

This novel interweaves Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo’s fifteenth-century viewpoint with the twenty-first-century reality of two young Canadian students: Agnes Vane, an art history major fascin