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In the twenty-first century, Canada has a reputation for being one of the most gay-friendly nations on earth, a pioneer in legalizing same-sex marriage, and home to enormously popular Pride parades

Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, these first short stories from Terry Griggs herald one of the most original voices to appear out of Canada in the last several decades.

In the world of The Reasonable Ogre, magic is nothing if not paradoxical.

Women. Young women, old women. The hair-obsessed, the politically driven, the sure-footed, the bonybutted, the awkward and compulsive and alone. Sleep-deprived and testy. Exhausted and accepting.

Traumatized by his past as a Bolivian soldier who, in a sudden coup d'etat, was forced to participate in atrocities, Alfredo flees to Montreal, haunted by the dead.

In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smalle

This dramatised audio version of the play continues the description of the reign of Henry IV up to his death and the acceptance of the throne by Prince Hal.

The River is Paul Vasey's tribute to Windsor, a place he discovered by accident and loved over a lifetime.

An illustrated history of bootlegging along the Great Lakes, Rumrunners gives us a sense of Prohibition and the larger-than-life rumrunners and bootleggers who thrived during it in a way that no do

Birdsong, wind: here by the ocean every noise was surrounded by silence that reached all the way to the stars.

Clark Blaise is a North American treasure, one of a handful of the truly important short story writers in the last 50 years.

John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition.

In Something About the Animal, Cathy Stonehouse's first collection of short fiction, the world keeps coming apart at the seams: these are stories of imminent and often destructive crisis, which in

Richard II is the poet's play, full of great speeches and fine writing, rather than subtle character and keen insight.

At the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. He'll send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB.