FICTION
The Island of Books
A rich portrait of the beauty of words – painted by a 15th-century illiterate scribe.
A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, ...
Baloney
A Tristram Shandy–esque novella about failing memory and failed writing, from one of French Canada’s most exciting new voices.
A young, floundering author meets Robert ‘Baloney’ Lacerte, an older, ...
The Hidden Keys
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD
NATIONAL POST 99 BEST BOOKS OF 2016
Giller Prize winner André Alexis’s contemporary take on the quest narrative is an instant classic.
Parkdale’s Green ...
It Is an Honest Ghost
From Kenya to Quebec, these wry and unconventional stories explore the different ways we’re haunted …
Teenagers philosophize on the nature of ontology while fearing there's a ghost in the old mill ...
This Poem Is a House
If love is a house, how do we arrange the furniture?
Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl’s story sheltering a boy’s poem, ...
Guano
Bartleby the Scrivener meets Catch-22 in this charmingly sardonic tale of love, war and fertilizer.
WINNER OF THE PRIX DES COLLÉGIENS
Simón turned his thoughts to her daily. There were few enough
of ...
Pillow
Most of the things Pillow really liked to do were obviously morally wrong. He wasn't an idiot; clearly it was wrong to punch people in the face for money. But there had been an art to it, and it had been ...
The Murder of Halland
When Halland is found murdered almost right outside his door, his widow, Bess, is of course the prime suspect. She isn't worried about that, though, but about the daughter she abandoned years ago. As ...
Chinkstar
Chinksta rap is all the rage in Red Deer, Alberta. And the king of Chinksta is King Kwong, Run’s older brother. Run isn’t a fan of Kwong’s music – or personality, really. But when Kwong goes missing ...
Twenty-One Cardinals
From the author and translator of And the Birds Rained Down, a 2015 CBC Canada Reads selection
Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English Translation
An abandoned mine. A ...