FICTION
The Milk Chicken Bomb
Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award
The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it’s winter, ...
King
Hoping to erase her unhappy old life, Hazel jumps in her beat-up old car and speeds away. When she pulls up to the Evening and Morning Star Trailer Park, where nothing turns into even more of nothing, ...
The River of Dead Trees
Middle-aged and short on prospects, Charles Wilson returns to Trempes, the village of his childhood, and discovers the body of his childhood friend, Paul Faber, hanging from a tree in the clearing where ...
Miss Lamp
When a mad dentist steals people's teeth, Miss Lamp comes to town.
Miss Lamp, a young and savvy lawyer, is holed up in Room 32 of the Peachland Hotel, waiting for a perfect grilled cheese sandwich and ...
Mauve Desert
First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers ...
Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon
Nominated for a Governor General's Award for Translation
Yesterday, on my way back from the museum: my head is full of images of storms. A boundless sea of paintings and photographs. Other storms I build ...
Down Sterling Road
Nominated for an Alberta Book Award.
Time you had a haircut. Look like a mop.
Not that skinny.
Skin and bloody bone, boy.
Jacob breaks the point of his pencil but makes it look like an accident. And ...
The City Man
Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize (Canada and Caribbean region), a Toronto Book Award and a Books in Canada/Amazon. ca First Novel Award.
March 6, 1934. Hundreds gather outside City Hall to ...
Nellcott Is My Darling
Nominated for a 2005 Governor General's Award
Alice Charles has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She’s never had a boyfriend and doesn’t know how to do laundry. She joins the Film ...
Safety of War
David spends his days as an underworked copy writer for an ad agency and his nights lost in old war movies, fantasizing about his strange teenage cousin and revisiting his father's suicide.
His dreary ...