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A middle-aged sportswriter gets a new lease on life with a heart transplant and develops an intimate relationship with his donated heart.

It began as rumours. Whispers at dinner parties. Warnings about bad dates with a Canadian celebrity.

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for PoetryA Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearLike the novella in fiction, the long poem is an oft-neglected form.

Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall.

Part mystery, part elegy, This Side of Sad begins with an ending: the violent enigma of a man's death. Was it an accident, or did James commit suicide?

Allison LaSorda's Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful.

Shortlisted, East Coast Literary Award and Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-FictionIt was over in seconds.

Is this life a route or a destination?

Shortlisted, 2017 Governor General's Award for FictionThe Leung family leads a life of secluded luxury in Hong Kong. But in December 1941, the Empire of Japan invades the colony.

An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013, A Canada Reads Top 40 Pick, and a NOW Magazine Book of the YearWhile in Copenhagen, Sara Wheeler, a Toronto journalist, happens upon Cirkus Mirak, a touring Ethiopia

Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardOne of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony Jarman re

With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow.

On “A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould”:“The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the more puzzling for w

In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale’s Back presents a host of Eastern Canada’s brightest literary talents, all putting pens to paper to explore the multi

In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty.