Home is a door we carry

I miss my home; if only I could shrink him with a magic spell and carry him with me! Or what if he was big and strong enough to protect us on our long journey? After meeting many children forced to flee their homes during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Constantin Satüpo wrote this book to tell the...

The torontonians

First published in 1960, the classic feminist novel about a desperate housewife.

Voices in time

In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents t...

Maurice

Maurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man’s journey to self-acceptance as someone who loves and desires men. Rebutting its critical reception, this volume champions the film as a sympathetic adaptation, making a case for its underappreciated posit...

Marina warner and the ethics of telling silenced stories

A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of appropriating voices through narrative, examining her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales.

Mordecai richler's imperfect search for moral values

From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surprised readers with his writing. The first full study of Richler’s entire corpus, Mordecai Richler’s Imperfect Search for Moral Values is an investigation into Richler’s novels and the strong reactio...

Adam buenosayres

The first-ever English translation of "Argentina's Ulysses."

Hunter with harpoon

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In t...

Stalingrad lives

Featuring lost work by Vasily Grossman alongside texts by luminaries such as Konstantin Simonov, Viktor Nekrasov, and Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalingrad Lives reveals, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad in the fall of 1942 – an epic story of death, martyrdom, resurrec...

The blue mountains and other gaelic stories from cape breton

John Shaw has been documenting Cape Breton's Gaelic traditions since the 1960s. In The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton he presents thirty tales recorded between 1964 and 1989. The collection includes popular tales such as The Dragon Slayer, hero-tales of Fionn Mac Cumhail...

Do you want to be happy and write?

This new collection on Michael Ondaatje’s work – the first in twenty years – offers an innovative analysis of the author’s oeuvre from 1967 to the present. In twenty essays, contributors explore Ondaatje’s poetry, novels, and work in film, highlighting the transnational, postcolonial, and diaspor...

To the spring, by night

An evocation of childhood, a lost world, and a lost time.

Ha!

On 15 March 1977, with his wife's consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker friend feels compelled to understand why Aquin killed himself - and discovers, at the heart of t...

The precipice

The story of the volatility of a marriage and the inelasticity of two personalities, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.

Each man's son

New editions of the major works of a seminal Canadian writer.

Mordecai richler

"I didn't want the biography to end. Mordecai Richler seemed so vividly alive…From now on, nobody can write about Richler without reading this book." The Globe and Mail

Zygmunt bauman and the west

Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprung from Bauman’s lived experiences of totalitarianism and exile amounts to a sustained, sophisticated, and unappreciated p...

Invasion 14

An epic novel recounting the German occupation of northern France during World War I.

Two solitudes

Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its ideas of what a nation should be. Set in WWI-era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes prote...

Canadian primal

Over the past few decades, a group of writers we might call the Thinking and Singing poets have stood at the forefront of poetry in Canada. These five poets – Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky, and Tim Lilburn – are major voices in an era of ecological devastation and spiritual...

Recognition and revelation

Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. This is a critical edition of over fifty essays about Canada and its land, peoples, politics, and literature, spanning her writing career from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Aesthetic dilemmas

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is frequently portrayed as an aloof writer, out of step with modern sensibilities. Aesthetic Dilemmas re-evaluates his place in twentieth-century European Modernism by arguing that his work is not escapist but instead engages the consciousness of readers through dynamic enco...

The watch that ends the night

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have...

The orangeman, second edition

The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from Ireland who brought the Orange Order to central Canada, to explore the migration and prejudice that shaped Canadian politics. This lively novel shows that while one never knows everything about a historical person, someti...

Psyche

A child who is the centre of her parents' life, is torn away in the darkness from her comfortable urban home and left to grow up in the barren hills of northern mining country. Over time, recognizing that she has outgrown the kindly but uneducated couple who raise her, she begins a relationship w...

Free women in the pampas

A biographical novel depicting Victoria Ocamp’s friendships, debates, and conflicts with poet Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, and the writers Pierre Drieu de la Rochelle, Hermann von Keyserling, and Waldo Frank, witnessed by the fictional Carmen Brey, a Galician-Spanish imm...

At face value, second edition

At Face Value spins the tale of John White, a trusty Tory backbencher in Canada’s post-Confederation Parliament who was unusually sympathetic to women and Indigenous communities. Hewing closely to the archival record, it nevertheless diverges on one crucial point, reimagining White as a woman nam...

Timing canada

Time as a form of power in Canadian society, literature, and cultural imagination.

At face value

While tracing the history of John White, a trustworthy, nineteenth-century Tory backbencher with an unusual understand-ing of the political situation of women and indigenous minorities, Don Akenson found gaps and inconsistencies in the records. The conventional biography of White simply does not ...

Canadian odyssey

An engaging, critical study of Hugh Hood's ambitious twelve-volume novel-series.

Authors and audiences

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the best-selling fiction of Ralph Connor, Robert Stead, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Arthur Stringer was internationally recognized. In this intriguing cultural history of the conception, production, and reception of popular fiction, Clarence Karr ch...

Outrageous seas

Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundland.

The excluded wife

The Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Act, passed by the Canadian government in 1923, stopped the families of Chinese labourers working in Canada from entering the country. Based on extensive interviews with Chinese women affected by the Exclusion Act, Yuen-fong Woon has created a riveting account ...

Hummocks

"At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks," writes Jean Malaurie.

L' acadie de 1686 a 1784

Le carré's landscape

The reality of espionage isn't easily disentangled from its mythology - and somewhere at the uneasy confluence of these dimensions is the fiction of John le Carré. A former British intelligence officer, le Carré has captured the shadows and textures of the covert world with a sure eye for its nua...

Le chien d'or/the golden dog, critical edition

A beloved literary artefact, presented for the first time as the author intended.

Dystopian fiction east and west

In Dystopian Fiction East and West Erika Gottlieb offers an original and comprehensive exploration of dystopian fiction. She discusses Western classics such as Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Bradbury's Farenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player Piano, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale,...

Marion

Mysteries of identity and the trials of working girls from the first published Asian North American novelist.

The accidental indies

The Accidental Indies is a tale in which we join Christopher Columbus on a voyage through western seas and Western imagination. Robert Finley imagines, sings, charts, and paints the story of Columbus's problematic 1492 expedition to the Caribbean, creating a world that is as vivid and compelling ...

General consent in jane austen

Readings of Jane Austen tend to be polarized: she is seen either as conformist - the prevalent view - or quietly subversive. In General Consent in Jane Austen Barbara Seeber overcomes this critical stalemate, arguing that general consent does not exist as a given in Austen's texts. Instead, her t...

D.h. lawrence and attachment

Using concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence’s fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence’s work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns l...

Learning to look

In Learning to Look Lesley Clement traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant's visually evocative style through five decades of her short fictional works. Gallant explores the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds as the lines, shapes, and colours suggested by her allusions, analogies, and ...

The swan of the well by titia brongersma

Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the brilliant seventeenth-century Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the Well, in 1686. This is the first complete English translation of the work.

The jewish oil magnates of galicia

The critical role of the Jews in the ninety-five-year boom and bust cycle of one of the earliest oil industries.

France in the world

André Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring the writer’s life, career, and controversies, France in the World examines the entanglement of liberal and racist thinking during the early twentieth century.

Across greenland's ice cap

In the summer of 1912, four young scientists sledded across 640km of untracked snow and ice, crossing central Greenland from west to east for the first time. This minor classic of exploration literature by the expedition’s leader, Alfred de Quervain, is a sympathetic portrayal of life in remote c...

In the land of the lacandón

In the mid-1930s Bernard de Colmont ventured into the borderlands of Mexico to study the Lacandón people, considered to be the closest living relatives of the Maya. In the Land of the Lacandón transforms de Colmont’s narratives and images into a 1930s adventure comic, accompanied by a historical ...

Machinist of mana 3

A magical machinist becomes a spy to unearth a dangerous plot that spans past, present, and future in the third installment of this isekai adventure.In the years since Liam was mysteriously transported to a new land to live as the noble son Percival Shadestone, he’s learned many things: how to wi...

An ocean of longing

I will cross a hundred more years to find my way back to you...When Tegan Penrose plunges through the time portal at Trevarron House to save her beloved William, she believes she is carrying him home to the twenty-first century. Instead, she is torn from his arms and cast adrift in 1867 – alone, ...

Black water bones

A suffocating Southern thriller from an award-winning author. The next unputdownable read for fans of Stacy Willingham and Noelle W. Ihli.She left Chokoloskee Island behind years ago. The Everglades isn't done with her yet.Cameron St. Rose was five when her mother disappeared into the mangroves w...

The secret dressmaker

Shelves of sequins in a kaleidoscope of colours. Bolts of silk and tulle against the back wall. The sewing room was the last place anyone had seen her daughter alive.Northern Ireland, 1942. Flora Toussaint packs parachutes for the RAF, haunted by the twin daughters she was forced to give up eight...

Glow job

A laugh-out-loud, escapist summer holiday rom-com, perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Beth O'Leary and Sophie Kinsella.Chloe needs a holiday. She's invisible to her boss, overworked and burnt out. What she gets is a chaotic wellness retreat at a sun-drenched Ibizan villa, run by a man whose resembl...

Conflict of interest

Rule one of becoming a doctor: don't sleep with your supervisor. Rule two: definitely don't charge him for it.Fresh out of a breakup and new to New York, Finn Hayes does something impulsive: when a guy at a bar mistakes him for an escort, he plays along. The stranger who takes the bait? Gorgeous,...

The widows’ guide to foul play

It's pantomime season in Little Shaw, and librarian Ginny Cole has been roped in to help. The local theatre has persuaded national treasure and famously difficult diva, Monica Larkwell, to star in their production of Mother Goose, and while the celebrity's return to the village after thirty years...

The cherkley court conundrum

A maid found bludgeoned, a priceless treasure stolen, and the likely suspect gone without a trace…When an old flame from Marius Quin's past turns up at his door with knowledge of a shocking crime, he is drawn into a new case. A devoted maid has been brutally attacked, a valuable jewellery box sto...

No esperes por mí mañana (novela) / don’t wait for me tomorrow (a novel)

Una novela sobre el amor, la memoria y la reinvención personal, de la aclamada autora y periodista cubana. Cuando Sarah —cerca de cumplir los cuarenta y viviendo en Madrid— recibe una carta de su primer amor, se ve arrastrada de nuevo al paisaje emocional de su juventud, lo que la obliga a enfre...

Verity: la sombra de un engaño (edición de la película) / verity (movie tie-in)

Un vínculo con una de las películas más esperadas del año. En cines el 2 de octubre. Cuando la escritora en apuros Lowen Ashleigh es contratada para terminar una serie superventas tras quedar incapacitada su autora, Verity Crawford, descubre una autobiografía oculta llena de confesiones perturba...

Still life

A stunningly original novel exploring race, truth in authorship, and the legacy of past exploitation, from the Windham-Campbell lifetime achievement award winner “Timely and thought-provoking, Still Life is a novel about the complexities of human compassion and the impermanence of legacies.” —For...

Deathbound

The second book in a stunning new dark fantasy romance series from The New York Times bestselling author of Den of Vipers.

Fatebound

The first book in a stunning new dark fantasy romance series from The New York Times bestselling author of Den of Vipers.

Ace high

Sometimes second chances are waiting when you least expect them. Lars Jackson isn‚'t purposely hanging around Lost Creek to see Kellie Prosper more. All right, maybe he is. She‚'s single now, and well, he knows she‚'s been through a lot. Maybe he can be a listening ear. Something more would be a...

Rough stock

Life on the road is good . . . Until he meets her and realizes what he‚'s missing. Westin Farr has been focused on one thing. To match his dad‚'s perfect 100-point record in professional bull riding. It‚'s getting closer; he can feel it. Although he misses his dad, life is good. Westin spends his...

Two pigs and a corpse

An offensive bookseller, a pair of priceless pigs... and a dead body just beyond the pen. Sue Jaworski is gearing up for a busy Thanksgiving season--her garden shop needs stocking, her daughter's visit is just days away, and her granddaughter Jessica is about to welcome a baby. So when Alan sugg...

Legacy of water

A reincarnated queen caught between gods and destiny… Alexia thought she was a simple witch, until the veil between worlds shattered and ancient powers began calling her name. Hunted by gods and bound to a fate buried across lifetimes, she allies with fallen angel Lucifer to find the Tablets of ...

Half hitch

A Wyoming cowboy surprised by love meets a young widowed Rodeo star who isn‚'t ready to open her heart. Broken Hearts ranch is working its magic again with young Hazel Winters, still paralyzed by grief at the loss of her husband. She finds hope and healing with Kellie Prosper and the other women...

Legacy of fire

A rising queen must turn to a fallen angel. Or watch the realms burn… Witch Alexia has been broken, buried, and hunted across lifetimes, but she refuses to kneel again. As something older than memory rises from the deep, gods, warlocks, and an ancient prophecy close in around her. Desperate to s...

Chute boss

The perfect vacation: Rest. Therapy. And miles away from Reid Browning. At first Eden thinks she's spending three weeks at Broken Hearts Ranch to heal her head. But the longer she works with Kellie, the more she realizes her head is not the only thing hurting. Images from her tour in Iraq stay h...

Full rigged

Ford Hopkins is a simple guy. Loves his rodeo life, loves his family, loves his dog, and wants to find his place in the world. Not too complicated, and spending more time down in Lost Creek, Texas, is just what he needs to remind himself of that. But a spitfire doctor staying at his friend‚'s ran...

Legacy of spirit

One witch and a fallen angel stand between the realms and complete destruction… After countless lifetimes of war, sacrifice, and bloodshed, Alexia, the witch destined to wield the Tablets of Destiny, faces a threat older than the pantheons themselves. Every realm wants the power in her hands, wh...

The lexicon of love

Navigating life one word at a time Bella McKellar is witty, chaotic, and desperate to trade her small Scottish town for a grand adventure. Plumber’s apprentice Mike Collins is steady, kind, and has a secret passion for words. After a disastrous first encounter at an eighties tribute night, a sha...

Mona's eyes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Barnes & Noble 2025 Book of the Year • Boston Globe Best Book of the Year • National Indie Bestseller • Indie Next Pick • Indigo Heather’s Pick  “Luminous.”—Boston Globe  Mona and her grandfather have only fifty-two weeks to encounter all that is beautiful in the wo...