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What has to die before you force yourself to change? That's the question facing the always quirky and often-queer characters of Canary.

First published in 1969, Ray Smith's Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada remains as refreshing, innovative and important today as it has in every previous incarnation.

By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry.

It is 1984. The latest recession is said to be over, and in the steel city of Hamilton, things are picking up.

The fourth title in Biblioasis's Renditions Series, Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle of the Seymour family that m

Star-struck biographies, nostalgic histories, gonzo road trips: hockey books say we're obsessed with the game because we grew up wanting to be players. Now women.

Once a celebrated war photographer, Lucas Zane is burnt out after covering twenty years of war.

In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, se

A cookbook unlike any other.

As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet parked a

The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle's debut Debris introduce an authentic new voice.

In the tradition of erotic confession (with a catch), as delicately written as the tales of Ana's Nin or Pauline Reage, Smith's pornographic novel explores female desire.

Brian Busby's 'The Dusty Bookcase' explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary history: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety.

Terence Young's second collection of short stories, The End of the Ice Age, brings together thirteen tales of hardscrabble characters in their lonely orbits.

The year is 1976. The protagonists are women, writers, guerilla fighters, friends.