For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, a beautifully observed portrait of marriage, divorce, and reconciliation as an estranged couple embark on a road trip from small-town Ontario to B.C. to finally lay to rest the mystery that pulled them apart. Kathleen and Yannick have not spoken for nineteen years, not since what happened with their daughter. Now, […]
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A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory—a chance encounter in a […]
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something […]
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising—and declining—fortunes. Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so […]
Fresh-faced Jonno is looking to make a splash in the literary scene when he encounters celebrated novelist Kilworthy Tanner at a party. Having sold first editions of her works to Toronto’s book dealers, he’s immediately star-struck and more than a little surprised when she takes an interest in him. Could this be the break he’s […]
The House of the Spirits meets Mexican Gothic in a tale of love and betrayal, belonging and exile, and the supernatural forces that pervade life in the Philippines. The secrets of the house are the secrets of the heart. It begins with an act of betrayal that destroys the tenuous bonds of Celestina Errantes’s family. […]
A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the lake. Every summer the peaches ripen in Port Peter, and the tourists arrive to gorge themselves on fruit and sun. They don’t see the bird women, who cavort on the cliffs and live in a meadow beneath […]
You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened. Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can […]
A heart-wrenching story of four students who find hope and kinship amidst the challenges of growing up at a harrowing madrasa in rural Ontario. Nabil, freshly plucked from middle school in Scarborough, is struggling to find his place at Al Haque Islamic Academy. Between the intense religious studies and the new rules, he still longs […]
A queer paranormal horror novel in the style of showrunner Mike Flannagan, showing the complex real-life terror inherent in grief and mental illness After the tragic death of their father and surviving a life-threatening eating disorder, 18-year-old Ellis moves with their mother to the small town of Black Stone, seeking a simpler life and some […]
“A timely tale of friendship, self-acceptance, and the importance of proper contouring.”—Kevin Christopher Snipes, author of Milo and Marcos at the End of the World A laugh-out-loud YA debut that examines the realities of small-town queer life and celebrates the transformative power of drag—perfect for fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pumpkin. Peter Thompkin needs […]
“Recipe for a Perfect Wife is a bold, intoxicating, page-turner. Karma Brown has long been a favorite of mine and this book is proof she just keeps getting better and better. This is a thrilling, audacious story about women daring to take control.”–Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six When Alice Hale […]
في سياق دولة ذات حضور طاغ في تفاصيل حياة المواطنين مثل مصر الناصرية، لا حيلة للناس للتخفيف من وطأة ذلك الحضور إلا اللجوء إلى وسيلتين: “الشائعة” و “النكتة”. عبر الشائعة والنكتة يخفف الناس من وطأة الظروف الصعبة، أو يوجهون نقداً لا يستساغ إن تم توجيهه في صورة خطاب جاد. في أفلام المهندس وشويكار تضافرت النكتة […]
“البيريتا يكسب دائماً”، والرواية كما يكشفُ عنوانها، هي سيرةُ مسدَّسٍ مشبوهٍ يتنقَّل بين المهرّبين ورجال الشرطة والمخبرين واللصوص والعشيقات والإعلاميين والكتّاب. مسدَّسٌ ملعونٌ ملطّخ بكل تاريخ القتل والتصفيات السياسية والعاطفية، يجوب الجيوب يبحث عن واحد فقط يجرؤ على الانتحار، في بلد طار سقفه وسقطت المشانق على الثوَّار والحائرين. كاتب تونسي يحقق بمخبئه في قضية انتحار […]
قبل أن يشقى فكتور فرانكشتاين، في رواية ماري شيلي، وراء وحشه، كان يعيش قلقا وحزنا بسبب موت أمه، فانهمك في العمل على أبحاثه ليصنع الوحش. إن مشاعر اليتم الخلاقة هذه هي نفسها التي كان يتخبط فيها الشعب التونسي قبيل انتخاب سعيّد، فقد فشل هذا الشعب في العثور على حل لتيهه التاريخي بعد إسقاط دكتاتور كان […]
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered […]
From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada’s finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire. Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the first step in a […]
One of the greatest European historical epic comics ever written continues. A DREAM COMES ASHORE Thorfinn’s travels have taken him from Iceland to England, Denmark, the distant trading posts of the Byzantine Empire, and back home again. On the journey, he has amassed scars, losses, and sins to atone for, but also found strength in […]
Two best friends, five hot guys, one dream vacation. What could possibly go wrong? Lori is beautiful, smart, and athletic. The one thing she can’t do is speak up for herself: she can’t stand up to a creepy guy at the gym, she can’t speak to her crush, and she certainly can’t tell her parents […]
In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada’s most distinctive writers, evokes an era of unspoken desires in which pain and longing are braided together along treacherous lines. It’s 1922 at Far Cry Cannery, a quarter-mile of boardwalk and wooden buildings strung along the rocks of […]
From Giller Prize-winning novelist David Bergen, an electrifying novel set in Ukraine amidst the chaos of war and revolution. Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seems in early 20th-century Ukraine during the tumult of the Russian Revolution. As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army all come and go, […]
