From the finalist for the Ethel Wilson Prize and the Journey Prize

When botanical artist Clare Livingstone unexpectedly inherits her uncle's property in Tuscany, she travels to Italy to learn why, despite their long estrangement and complicated past, she was chosen to maintain his legacy.

Montreal is gearing up for the World Economic Forum. On one side are those preparing to welcome the policymakers and moneylenders; on the other are groups ready to protest the evils of capitalism and globalization. Caught in the middle is Lee Atwater, tasked with investigating a string of bizarre incidents.

When Mira Acharya’s father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become that much more daunting. Ravi, her autistic older brother, requires special care but longs to be just like other children. Their mother must work full time to keep a roof over their heads and still make time to be a parent to an over-achiever and a developmentally challenged child. And as much as Mira loves her mother and brother, she resents the situations in which living with them places her.

From the finalist for the 2009 Toronto Book Award

Cary Fagan began his literary career writing short stories, and now, after five novels, he returns to his first love.

A Porter Cassel Mystery

Forest fire forensics expert Porter Cassel to the isolated northern Alberta community of Fort Chipewyan, where an arsonist armed with Molotov cocktails has started a series of blazes.

Co-winner of the 1993 Toronto Book Award
Finalist for the 1992 Books in Canada First Novel Award

“Voice-Over is a wonderful novel and Carole Corbeil is a powerful novelist. Her fiction stands out and should never be forgotten. It is thrilling to see this work reissued.”
— Michael Ondaatje

Kivelli lost everything in the Great Fire of Smyrna. Now stranded in the Greek city of Piraeus, populated by gangsters, prostitutes, fortune tellers, and other refugees, she finds herself living in the broom closet of a brothel. Only her singing voice can provide a way to rise above.

Alex is a playwright suffering from writer’s block and harsh reviews. His best friend, Roy, is a theatre director with lung
cancer and six months left to live. In pursuit of fresh air and
great wine, they go on a road trip to the Okanagan Valley, where Roy rediscovers his passion for theatre. But when he decides to stage a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at a winery, disaster ensues.

In this sequel to 2007’s The Empress Letters, Precious
discovers she is pregnant, stirring up bittersweet memories of her time in Hong Kong with her Chinese father and stepmother.

Eric, a three-year-old from Gaspésie, is a being who lives only for pleasure. Drinking from his bottle, he tastes sugar for the first time, and is immediately hooked. From that point on, Eric and his sister go to greater and more desperate lengths to satisfy their sweet tooth.

It is Katie MacLeod’s fifty-fifth birthday. While her daughters throw her a celebratory brunch, Katie takes stock of her life and her loves. Will she take a chance on her internet penpal, Francois, and embrace this virtual romance?

In which June Callwood’s colleagues and loved ones recall her life in service of the community, paying tribute to the grace, charm, and unfailing generosity of one of Canada’s most beloved figures.

As a teenager, legendary Canadian poet George Bowering lived the life of an ordinary boy. But his sexual awakening was far from ordinary, when he found himself vying for the affections of not one but three different women. This intimately honest and often hilarious memoir skilfully captures the delirious chaos that takes place when a boy becomes a man.

M. Travis Lane’s fourteenth poetry title is a meditation on loss and reorientation, continuity and memory. Widowhood and mortality are at the centre of this quiet collection, but fear and self-pity are not to be found here: only a clear-eyed coming-to-terms.

Spanning the distances between the Newfoundland fishing village where he grew up and Montreal, the city he has made his home, McGrath’s poems drop a ladder into memory’s root cellar and find it luminescent.

Lithgow’s poems gravitate towards darker terrain – not at the expense of humour and irony, but with an energetic interest in the beauty of what time does to things, and a pleasure in language that searches for meaning a little beyond the bounds of the ordinary.

Blagrave's first collection brings together early and late poems, old soul and child-spirit—a voice unlike any other in Canadian poetry, by times haunting in its lyricism, by times terse and worldly-wise. Rooted in dream, song, rune and incantation, threaded with ancient echoes, the poems in Tilt are a window on a world that is intensely personal, strange, yet strangely familiar.