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The 2012 One Book Toronto title. Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. A girl faints in the Toronto subway.

From Kenya to Quebec, these wry and unconventional stories explore the different ways we’re haunted ...

On an isolated island in Lake Ontario live twins Lucy and Levi and their father, Daniel.

This is the story of Isobel and Emile. They wake up beside each other one morning, and they slowly get out of bed. It is the last time that they will sleep together. They know it.

In the stories of Mad Hope, Journey Prize winner Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both recognizable and alarming.

Winner of the The Believer Book Award (2012) Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award (2013) Myra, naive and curious, is on a family vacation to the southernmost tip of Florida – a mangy Key West fu

Winner of the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Winner of the 2012 Relit Award for Best Novel. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction.

Nominated for a 2005 Governor General's Award Alice Charles has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She’s never had a boyfriend and doesn’t know how to do laundry.

Her hands lay inert and upturned on her lap – probably stunned, she thinks, by the hideousness of the skirt underneath them.

David spends his days as an underworked copy writer for an ad agency and his nights lost in old war movies, fantasizing about his strange teenage cousin and revisiting his father's suicide.

Isabel Norris has never left the ice. Her father was a hockey legend who died before she was born, and her grandparents have raised her in his skates.

Tell It Slant is a bold, luscious first novel by Beth Follett, publisher of one of Canada's most exciting and respected small presses, Pedlar Press.

Nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Eugenia Ledoux, nine years old, wakes to a note from her father: ‘gone to save the world. sorry. yours, sheb wooly ledoux.

Nominated for a Governor General's Award for Translation. Yesterday, on my way back from the museum: my head is full of images of storms. A boundless sea of paintings and photographs.

Toronto's CN Tower has fallen into the lake. The city is crowded with refugees from the US. Michael and Ruth Racco's dad has, in a rash of road rage, perpetrated the Backhoe Massacre.