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In the spirit of Emma Donoghue’s international bestseller Room, Captive throws readers into the mind of a woman who wakes to find herself in a terrifying and surreal situation: she&#8

short stories and fragments of poetry from a wordsmith's half-century love affair with Queensland's Sunshine Coast

From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.

The “cool and stylish heroine kicks it up a notch” (Terry Fallis, author of Best Laid Plans), in the gripping fourth installment of Ian Hamilton’s Ava Lee Series.

In his national bestselling 1988 CBC Massey Lectures, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be s

At the height of the Cold War an agent is sent to Germany and meets Anna Hartmann. She is a dancer in a strip-club, a suitable lover but also a killer.

Is China's rise unstoppable?

"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures.

Winner of several prestigious prizes, The Spare Room is extraordinary writer Helen Garner's intense, moving investigation of the boundaries and limits of a lifelong friendship.As the novel ope

A poor family on the Canadian prairie receives an unexpected delivery from the postman on a snowy Christmas Eve.

The fifty essays in Second Words span the period from 1962 to 1980 and reveal Margaret Atwood's views on feminism, Canadian literature, the creative process, nationalism, sexism, as well as cr

In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaat

Watch out, Sarah Palin -- here comes Rob Ford! Love him or hate him, Rob Ford and his public (mis)statements are endlessly entertaining, often antagonizing, and always outrageous.

A young prostitute is found dead in Glasgow's city cemetery, the Necropolis, and Rhona Macleod is called in to review the forensic evidence.

Flora Fontages is a famous Parisian actress who has been in exile from her native Canada for twenty years.