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In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale’s Back presents a host of Eastern Canada’s brightest literary talents, all putting pens to paper to explore the multi

In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty.

Otolith — the ear stone — is a series of bones that help us to orient ourselves in space.

Jack Carstares returns to England but refuses to claim his title, instead he turns highwayman, crossing swords with the libertine Duke of Andover, alias the Black Moth.

Shortlisted, 2017 Governor General's Award for FictionMoscow, 1921. Tatiana and Sasha meet in a bookstore the night it is bombed.

For a guy who mugs people for their laptops, Tommy Marlo isn’t such a bad guy. He can’t help trying to make the people he meets — even those he mugs — feel better about their situation.

From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave.

While Lucy Farinelli goes undercover in Miami to bring down a notorious criminal cartel, Dr Kay Scarpetta and Pete Marino discover a body in a cargo ship recently arrived at Virginia's Deep Wa

Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfill

Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for FictionShortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and ReLit Award (Novel)Award-winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of histo

Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin.

Wit and comedy, Abigail Wendover's thwarted romance and marriage to a fortune hunter. Light and entertaining reading.

A CNQ Editors’ Book of the YearDoes faith insist upon the spotless soul? Can intellectual integrity and an honest search for the holy in this world survive a collision with religious mania?

A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from s

Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her.