Peoples & Cultures - Fiction

Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (1862- 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Ca...

A joy ride set on a crash course with the past. Audrey Cole has always loved to drive. Anytime, anywhere, any car: a questionable rustbucket, a f...

The serial publication of The Clockmaker in 1835-36 launched Canadian judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton to literary fame. A broad satire with a ga...

In a bathtub in a rooming house in Montreal in 1980, a woman tries to imagine a new life for herself: a life after a passionate affair with a man...

‘Shot-Blue is that rarest species, a genuinely wise novel.’ – Rivka Galchen Rachel is a young single mother living with her son, Tristan, on a la...

Tragedy erupts in an instant. Lives are shattered irrevocably. A young man drives off into the night, leaving a girl injured, perhaps fatally so....

"The Golden Dog" from William Kirby. Canadian author and editor of the Niagara Mail (1817-1906). Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781522858386 Publisher:...

Shortlisted for the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeLonglisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor AwardIn a linked collection that presents the ...

Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After major back surgery, she moves into her ex-husband’s home to be cared for by his ne...

How can an enterprising newspaper reporter sell his Babji dolls when there's a beheaded street youth, a Rave Messiah battling a berserk God Squad...

It is August of 1963, the year of the Taylor/Burton film epic Cleopatra, showcasing a passion too grand to be contained on the movie screen. The ...

Now a Major Motion PictureA dazzling debut—and a publishing phenomenon—the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken...

The life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Judy Fong Bates...

When she is nine-years-old, Louise Kirk's mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only—and incorrectly—"Louise knows how to work the washing...

"A true grit coming-of-age novel" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), Saints of Big Harbour is a funny, brutal, and vivid story about small-town life a...

A touching and resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his family's legacy of alcohol and violence, ...

Pickett is a rich man by many of the standards that count most. A widower and retired Toronto cop, he owns his city home free and clear, he has a...

Toronto's CN Tower has fallen into the lake. The city is crowded with refugees from the US. Michael and Ruth Racco's dad has, in a rash of road r...

When private detective Lucy Trimble is retained by Greta Golden to find the identity of the ominous lurking stranger who Greta is certain is foll...

A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chambers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future color every facet of li...