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Keepers of the Faith

The novel follows the fates of two blissful young lovers, Akbar and Rukhsana, in the historic city of Udaipur. When a communal split occurs, their families are on opposite sides; the lovers’ dream of ...

I Can't Get You Out of My Mind

Ariadne, a single, fortysomething writer embroiled in an affair with a married man, is writing a book about what it means to say, “I love you. ” To make ends meet while writing, she joins a research ...

The Wild Heavens

The Wild Heavens is a graceful and compelling debut novel that pays tribute to the magic and unfathomable mystery of the natural world. Sandy Langley’s life has been haunted by a tragic disappearance—until ...

The Swan Suit

By (author) Katherine Fawcett
Categories: Short stories

Blending banalities of everyday routines and dilemmas with elements of magic, the macabre and the downright inventive, the stories in The Swan Suit are anything but predictable. In this collection, reimagined ...

Here the Dark

From stories on the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to the Canadian prairies, where an aging rancher finds himself smitten and a teenage boy’s infatuation ...

The Kissing Fence

By (author) B.A. Thomas-Peter
Categories: Historical fiction

In The Kissing Fence, two generations grapple with identity, oppression, and redemption rooted in the chilling history of the 1950s and 60s conflict between the Canadian government and the Doukhobors ...

Coming Up for Air

A lyrical, powerful, and richly textured novel about three lives that intertwine across oceans and time.

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into ...

The Baudelaire Fractal

By (author) Lisa Robertson
Categories: Magical realism

One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed ...

The Ballad of Samuel Hewitt

By (author) Nick Tooke
Categories: Historical fiction

Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, this story sees a young horse thief and his unlikely accomplice pursued through the forbidding landscape of the British Columbia Interior. There they ...

Dakghar

Based on true incidents, this complex novel remembers the staging of Tagore’s play Dakghar in a Warsaw ophanage run by Dr Janusz Korczak, days before 200 orphange children, staff, and Dr Korczak were ...