The long-lost fiction of avant-garde hero bpNichol collected into one groundbreaking volume.Nights on Prose Mountain gathers all of beloved writer bpNichol's published fiction. Originally appearing between ...

A motley crew of characters deftly woven into a brilliant mashup of the spy novel and the art-world parody.We know how Simone met the man who will become, for a time, her fourth husband. We know what ...

The erotic awakening and mental disintegration of an intense young man who leaves home and enters the phantasm of Israel.It's just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator - until Barbra arrives. ...

A bookseller's love affair, start to finish, against the backdrop of a city in protest.It's 1971. Hal Sachs runs a used bookstore. Business isn't so great, and the store is in a part of Toronto that's ...

A small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead.Imagine rubbing shoulders with the dead for most of your life. As she picks the brain of her father ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer: reluctant father of the atomic bomb, enthusiastic lover of books, devoted husband and philanderer. Engaging with the books he voraciously read, and especially the Bhagavad Gita, ...

It’s 1944, and a little village in rural Quebec sits quietly beside an aging mountain and an angry river. The air tastes of kelp, and the wind keeps knocking over the cross. Beside that river an eleven-year-old ...

A mysterious manuscript falls into a bed-ridden writer's lap in this novel of broken bones, Syrian folktales, and plummets of all varieties.

In If Clara, nobody stands on firm ground. Daisy, an author ...

Rachel is a young single mother living with her son, Tristan, on a lake that borders the unchannelled north — remote, nearly inhospitable. She does what she has to do to keep them alive. But soon, and ...

Eighty-five years of art and history through the eyes of a woman who fled her family – as re-imagined by her granddaughter.

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother’s mother. Curious to understand ...