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Vancouver, 1942.

Katherine Wisteria Warble (otherwise known as Kiddo) knows her family depends on her for information.

The Chain Locker shows us how heroism, loyalty, and friendship play out in this amazing novel based on true stories about brave Newfoundland sealers.

Blasted is a story of Ruby Jones, an irreverent, exuberant, and troubled woman who lurches between love affairs and cities.

"My father has married me to a mad old man." These words, written on a slip of paper inside a fading brocade collar, are a clue to the unlikely marriage of a Jewish remittance man and a 14-year-old

These are Emily's last five days in Lightning Cove, a community on the northeast coast of Newfoundland where she struggles to free herself from an oppressive husband.

"Eighty-four years is time enough for one life," Keziah Donovan muses as she waits for death to re-unite her with her "own sweet man".

The Confessions of Nipper Mooney, full of vivid character portraits and written with a playwright's ear for dialogue, is a compelling story that charts an original course through the beauties and h

Winner, 2021 IPPY Bronze Medal for Canada-East Best Regional Fiction.

From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission.

This is the Cat is a deeply darkly humorous tale as shared by one Bridie Savage.

Levi Conley has spent his life making a hard living off the water. Fishing defines who he is.

After her mother dies, fourteen year old Zoe is whisked away to Newfoundland to live with a father she has never met.

Finton Moon is an unusual child who feels like an alien.

In Deluded Your Sailors, the culture industry is a weapon, a victim, and an opportunity, depending on the perspective of two main figures: the unsteady but perceptive Nichole Wright, whose discover