National Network for Equitable Library Service

Some days, it doesn’t pay to be a lapsed pretend Buddhist . . . particularly when you’re charged with a lengthy list of war crimes. Vida Zankovic has done many things to stay alive.

Katherine Leyton's fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and interrogating the nature of imag

Documents Forrest's career as inland explorer, public servant and politician.

Winner, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, and W.O.

The beguiling "Woman Gored by Bison Lives" is from Douglas Glover's 1991 Governor General Award-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behaviour.

Western short stories with a difference. The characters and experiences are drawn from fact and history.

Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate.

In the late 1920s, Canada's economy was showing all the signs of a full-fledged depression. Life savings were evaporating, unemployment was up, and exports were dramatically down.

Commonwealth Prize winner Shauna Singh Baldwin's glittering story "Simran" is from her 1996 debut collection, English Lessons and Other Stories.Published on the occasion of Goose Lan

Winner, Dobbie Literary Award, FAW Barbara Ramsden Award, Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelist Award, and The Australian/Vogel Literary AwardNight Street is the passionate story of a young p

In the third of a series of novels, troubles develop in the Bailey home when the three stepchildren, Mark, Katie, and Willie, and the adopted daughter, Mamie, face the addition of Bill and Fiona&#0

Steve Patterson's The Book of Letters I Didn't Know Where to Send is a collection of — wait for it — letters, written by award-winning stand-up comedian — you guessed it — Steve Patterson

Not every story has a happy ending.

At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur.

Fiona is a young widow left badly off with three children. She advertises for a lodger and that is when Bill Bailey comes into her life.