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A bold experiment in autobiography, Lost Family: A Memoir is a book of sonnets that centres around the deaths of John Barton's parents and sister, but also tracks much of the poet's early

Complicated histories that parents pass on to their children.

People don't leave the Point, even if they move far away. Or at least that's how it seems to journalist Kathy Dobson. Growing up in the 1970s in Point St.

In Apple S, the kaleidoscopic worldview of celebrated Québécois novelist Éric Plamondon sets its sights on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the seeds of Silicon Valley.

All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been, Joe Fiorito's second collection, establishes him as the preeminent chronicler of people in extremis.

Shifting across three countries, The Deserters explores themes of trust, isolation, abandonment, and emotional disconnection in a world dramatically altered by the experience of war.

Power and sex take centre stage in Robin Richardson's formidable third collection, Sit How You Want.

A rogue moose wanders into a suburb near Quebec city, tramples lawns and gardens, stumbles in and out of a swimming pool, is tracked by three gun toting heads of family who shoot it down just as a

For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada.

The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke and Brecht.

When Gabriel Rivages recounts the life of Olympic gold medallist and silver-screen heart-throb Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984), he brings to life a vibrant patchwork of America's 20th-century, from

Immigration to Montreal. Young Senegalese coming to Quebec. A new world of contradictions and beauty.

For centuries Montreal reigned as Canada's most beguiling city.

Poems about Montreal's metro stations and streets to pastoral mise-en-scènes. William Vallières' first book.

What We Carry is a profound exploration of the weight of human history at three levels: the individual, the cultural, and environmental.