Biblioasis

"Stef?nsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy."--Eileen Battersby, TLSIn a remote fishing village, a boy and his best friend spend the lonely hours on shore reading and talking about...

Taut, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives.A teenager's job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with...

HouseholdersAuthor: Kate CayleyPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: 14-Sep-21Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1771964294ISBN-13: 9781771964296

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize - Shortlisted for the 2023 An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year - One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" - One of the Globe 100's...

How to Die: A Book About Being AliveAuthor: Ray RobertsonPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: May 12, 2020Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1771960949ISBN-13:...

Norman Levine's stories, so spare and compassionate and elegant and funny, so touching, sad, fantastic and unforgettable, rank alongside the best published in this country. Celebrated abroad, his...

The best of Kapuscinski's published poems, offered for the first time in English.Author: Ryszard KapuscinskiPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: Nov 15, 2007Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding:...

Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Story Collections of 2015Featuring the story adapted into the Academy Award nominated film, 45 YEARS"I started reading these stories quietly, and then became obsessed,...

Winner of the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us to the frontlines of a war waged between kitchen and...

WINNER OF THE AMAZON.CA FIRST NOVEL AWARD, 2013WINNER OF THE DEBUT-LITZER PRIZE, 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZEA NEW STATESMAN READ-ALL-ABOUT-IT SELECTION FOR 2012A BARNES &...

Man with a Seagull on His Head tells the story of Ray Eccles, a man "now past the age when anything interesting was likely to happen to him," whose life is nevertheless changed when a dying seagull...

Winner of the 2023 Prix Médicis, Prix Décembre, and Prix Ringuet Céline Wachowski, internationally renowned architect and accidental digital-culture icon, finally unveils her plans for the Webuy...

Author: Catherine FogartyPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: April 13, 2021Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1771964014ISBN-13: 9781771964012

A collection of newspaper columns by Marty Gervais, published in The Windsor Star.Author: Marty GervaisPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: Oct 15, 2006Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback...

"Stoltenberg's elegant prose makes each scene . . . so engaging that it gives plot a bad name."--John Self, GuardianFor her entire life, Karin has fled anything and anyone that tries to possess her...

Poems mapping the many contours of history--political, social, personal, and spiritual--and considering the ways we shape and are shaped by the land.Author: Shane NeilsonPublisher:...

Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how...

A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon--and gaining new appreciation--amidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops. Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at...

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn't make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what...

Finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction - Shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction - Finalist for the 2024 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and...

Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the...

A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine--and reveals the magic in the everyday. "I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the...

An unnamed speaker navigates a world where God comes in the shape of a cardinal, speaks in the voice of Georgia O'Keeffe, and paints the desert with bones. Driven by sound, heartbreak, and the...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.When a group of tourists visits the deserted island of Podolo, one wants to rescue a feral cat they find there, and the...

Like a little Freud in your fiction? C.P. Boyko's new collection is a dream come true. Perversely funny new work.Author: C. P. BoykoPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: Oct 23, 2012Number of Pages:...

A new translation of brilliant stories by Man Booker-finalist and author of Confession of the Lioness.Author: Mia Couto, Eric M. B. BeckerPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: Feb 19, 2019Number of...

A grim, philosophical sequel to The Velveteen Rabbit; The Tao of Pooh meets Tim BurtonAuthor: Noah WarenessPublisher: BiblioasisPublication Date: Oct 03, 2017Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage:...

A narrow, full-colour, easy-to-assemble loader, pre-packed with twenty-five copies of this year's Christmas Ghost Story titles: Mr Jones 9781771964548 (9 copies) The Doll's Ghost 9781771964531 (9...

Finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award - One of CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the FallA poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and...

I wanted a good bewildering, / down deep, / as the keep of a castle. With a voice as ungovernable and determined as Prometheus--who stole fire from Zeus only to face dire consequences--Colleen Coco...