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Shortlisted, 2017 Governor General's Award for FictionThe Leung family leads a life of secluded luxury in Hong Kong. But in December 1941, the Empire of Japan invades the colony.

An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013, A Canada Reads Top 40 Pick, and a NOW Magazine Book of the YearWhile in Copenhagen, Sara Wheeler, a Toronto journalist, happens upon Cirkus Mirak, a touring Ethiopia

Billy Bob Holland delves deep into Montana - paradise to some, to others, a savage wilderness.

Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardOne of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony Jarman re

With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow.

On “A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould”:“The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the more puzzling for w

India Taylor lives in a world of manicured lawns, summers at Cape Cod and a life of luxury. This is the life she has chosen - not the award-winning career as a photo-journalist she once had.

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