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A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s.

First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only be

Cloudburst is a milestone in Canadian literature.

Death may seem a grim subject matter but, in the capable hands of Suzanne Myre, nothing is beyond humour.

Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York.

Un sourire de reconnaissance attendrie apparaîtra sur les lèvres du lecteur. Pourtant, la surprise l’attend au détour.

Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century.

I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, “Take. It.

Through mesmerizing forays into characterization, voicing, and narrative technique, and with a clean economy of style rare even in short fiction, Astrid Blodgett conjures the moral and existential

Secrets aren’t good for families.

Gisèle Villeneuve’s short stories test the elastic pull between passion and terror.

“Shh, my Nuala. I am with you. Today I shall teach you the newness of you.” As the Engine breathes life into Nuala, her gaze falls on Teacher-Servant, the chosen one.

Two murders, fourteen years apart, both shrouded in secrets. David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye.

When damaged, brilliant detective Kala Stonechild and workaholic staff sergeant Jacques Rouleau get paired up, pieces start falling into place.

The hiring of a new assistant triggers a power struggle between an aging TV show creator and her former protégée.