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A former aid worker returns home haunted by her time in Africa and channels her pain into a murder investigation that’s all too personal.

A new edition of Philip Child’s great Canadian novel of the First World War.

A beautiful new edition of Hugh Hood’s debut story collection.

A winter camping trip turns deadly as two missing teenagers, a twisted love triangle, and the spectre of radicalism create turmoil in the remote Laurentian wilderness.

Inspector Green explores a web of betrayal and deceit. In the dead of night, the phone rings in the missing persons unit of the Ottawa Police.

Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these.

Maria Chapdelaine, the quintessential novel of the rugged life of early French-Canadian colonists, is based on the author’s experiences as a hired hand in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area.

First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl's autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist.

Ottawa Homicide Inspector Michael Green is absolutely obsessed with his job, a condition which has almost ruined his marriage several times.

When an old man dies a seemingly natural death in a parking lot, only Inspector Michael Green finds it suspicious.

In the seventh book in the acclaimed Inspector Green series, an old man is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa's Byward Market.

B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia.

Arthur James Marshall Smith — prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic — died in 1980.

Half-Mohawk, half-English author Pauline Johnson astounded Canada with her unique poetry, prose, and presentations.

The writing of Robert W. Service is mostly known through his poems and ballads.