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A Hostage

When Charlotte is kidnapped by Middle Eastern dictator Kassem, panic is only held at bay by a sardonic Inner Voice, which alternately consoles and condemns. While Kassem appears determined to explain ...

Places Like These

A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault ...

The Marigold

“This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim.” — Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW

 “A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow’s headlines.” ...

Cold Mourning

When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Detective Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results.

“Sneaks up on you with its grit and promise.” — National Post

It’s a week before Christmas ...

The Room Upstairs

There’s something strange going on at the Journey’s End.

Erin Sullivan has come to Hope Harbour intent on selling the old church-turned-inn. It belongs to her maternal grandmother, Jane Ross, a woman ...

Chrysalis

By (author) Anuja Varghese
Categories: Short stories

Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award
Winner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging Writers
Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Longlisted for the ...

La Maison de mon père

Après trente ans passés au Canada, un homme revient dans sa ville natale en Hongrie. Il n’est plus le même, Budapest non plus. Elle est plus vibrante que jamais, malgré les guerres, les révolutions, ...

Morse Code for Romantics

By (author) Anne Baldo
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

In Anne Baldo's Morse Code for Romantics, patterns of life emerge—and break—in relationships both requited and otherwise. A restaurateur orchestrates a devious punishment for his wife's lover. A desperate ...

In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark

In his wildly ambitious and darkly funny debut novel, Jonathan Garfinkel probes the fractured nature of identity, the necessity of lies, and the bloody legacy of the Soviet Empire.  

Spanning generations, ...

A Dark Conspiracy and Other Nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English

Edited by Henry M. Wallace
Categories: Classic fiction

A first anthology of its kind, A Dark Conspiracy and Other nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English anthologizes the best stories written by Canadians. Amond the authors in the collection, ...