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Watch out, Sarah Palin -- here comes Rob Ford! Love him or hate him, Rob Ford and his public (mis)statements are endlessly entertaining, often antagonizing, and always outrageous.

Flora Fontages is a famous Parisian actress who has been in exile from her native Canada for twenty years.

In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel.

What anxiety grips Petites Cendres as he runs towards the sea in the sunshine on a warm tropical morning?

This is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn’t speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking.

A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec.

Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story.

"An extraordinary book.

New York, at the end of the 1920s. Xavier X.

The Zing family lives in a misguided world of spell books, flying beach umbrellas, and state-of-the-art covert surveillance equipment.

It is the mid-seventies, and Shaila has returned to Bombay for her father's sixtieth birthday party.

On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction.

Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up.

Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so.