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<p>Finalist, Books in Canada/Amazon.ca First Novel Award</p> <p><i>The Beautiful Dead End</i> is a visceral crime thriller that takes the reader on an existential jour

<p>Finalist, ReLit Awards (shortlist)</p> <p><i>Black Rabbit & Other Stories</i> is a debut collection of great intensity and versatility.

<p>Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize</p> <p>A blackly comic new novel from Vancouver author Grant Buday, based on his eight glorious years working in a mass production bakery

<p>Best Books of 2005, <i>Ottawa Xpress</i></p> <p>Writer's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robe

<p>Finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award</p> <p>Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond in the small town of Seep during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown te

<p>ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015</p> <p><i>Savour</i> is the follow-up to Bateman’s award-winning debut novel, <i>Nondescript Rambunctious</i>, and the second

<p>Finalist, Trillium Book Award</p> <p>The stories in <i>Animal</i> depict people on the brink of major life change.

<p>Finalist, ReLit Award </p> <p>Finalist, McNally Robinson Book of the Year (Manitoba Book Awards) </p> <p>Finalist, Bisexual Book Award (USA)</p> <p><

<p>Winner, 35th International 3-Day Novel Contest </p> <p>Jack Minyard is a private eye down on his luck. He’s badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty.

<p>Grand Prize Winner, 23rd Annual International 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest</p> <p>Now a Major Motion Picture from Sony Entertainment Directed by Grammy Award winner Jonas Akerlu

<p>Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award</p> <p><i>Monday Night Man</i> is a back alley view of East Vancouver netherworlds.

<p>Rose Dubois and Julie O’Brien find themselves on the roof of a Montreal apartment building on a scorching summer’s day, and from that moment on their fates are intertwined.

<p><i>The Skeleton Dance</i> takes place on the mean, formerly clean streets of Toronto before the century ticked over into the new millennium.

<p>When jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s were gettin’ down, when things were really cookin’ they’d say, Yeah, make it tight like that.

<p><i>What It Feels Like for a Girl</i> is a series of poems following the intense friendship between two teenagers as they explore pop icons, pornography, and the big, strange wo