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The Kokoda Trail is part of Australian military folklore. This is the story of the Kokoda Campaign, portrayed through the eyes of the Australian soldiers who fought the battle.

J.A. Hamilton distinguished herself with Body Rain (1991) a tough, passionate lyrical book written out of a woman's anger and a woman’s love.

Readers of Colleen Thibaudeau's selected poems, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair, will feel at home in The Martha Landscapes, where domestic dearness and the exotic, like stra

A pinball wizard stars in this urban romance, set where the blues meet jazz in London, Ontario's historic York Hotel.

"In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet." Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and

THE THREE EDWARDS, third in Thomas B. Costain's survey of Britain under the Plantagenets, covers the years between 1272 and 1377 when three Edwards ruled England.

Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented

Shortlisted for the 2001 ReLit Awards John Reibetanz is good on grief: "You, mother,/ dying, left what was hard first:/ bones weeping into/ / your veins like flutes, teeth/ vanished on some h

Notable Book in the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards Catherine Greenwood draws on the stories and legends which surround the development of cultured pearls by Mikimoto,

English couple Richard and Robin Mariner are soon to launch the revolutionary SuperCats, a fast ferry service from Thunder Bay across the Great Lakes of Canada.

Jane Munro's poems are explorations of the mysteries of inner experience. What are the truths of emotion? What can the body know?

Ed Dyck finds that you cannot say "piss" on the radio in Saskatoon. There wasn't very much radio promotion of his book. That's a shame.

From Microphones there will be no returning to the standard detective story.

Fifty years after the war a set of potentially explosive documents comes to light sealed in a sunken U-boat.

Introduction to the Introduction to the Introduction by Andre Alexis For me, reading the Introduction was like being caught in a spring shower while waiting for the 41, and running into a library