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It happened in Vancouver, just before 'the sixties' started. A whole generation of poets, writers and artists shook off the repression of 1950s Vancouver. Piccolo Mondo blurs the lines between the...

'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.' - Man RayWhat if there were movies made the same way as suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person? Not...

From the Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen Dogs, the final installment in the massively ambitious Quincunx by one of Canada's literary giants "Love comes from uncertainty! In fact, love is...

From a Lambda-winning poet, Rooms shows the defining spaces a queer writer moved through as they found their way to a life of words. Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after...

In two massive volumes, Steve McCaffery, Canada's most challenging, experimental and innovative poet/critic amasses the best of his previously published and ungathered work.From the early concrete...

CBC BOOKS 'CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN 2024'CBC BOOKS 'BOOKS TO READ IN HONOUR OF THE NATIONAL DAY FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION'The Sky Woman has returned to bring down the...

With an intimate, comic, and compassionate eye, the twelve stories in Simple Creatures consider what it means to live with less in the twenty-first century. In this debut collection, featuring...

Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revenge Beneath the bright sky of Noirax lies a long tradition of secrets. Generations of men on the Malmaison estate have fathered...

The debut collection of visceral short fiction from notorious Toronto writer, editor, indie commentator and small-press overlord Hal Niedzviecki, Smell It lances the boil of urban life and sticks its...

CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023 'Cat Person' meets Station Eleven in this apocalyptic depiction of toxic masculinity. An unnamed man is spending the evening with...

For bpNichol's 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an astounding trove of never-before-seen work. One of Canada's most beloved poets, bpNichol (1944-1988), left a huge...

The Animal Sciences is like a science fair project. Take a group of friends - the missing Robin, crazy Kookla, jealous Duffer, lost Autumn and Latvian Igor - add baking soda and vinegar, and watch...

The Bear WomanAuthor: Karolina RamqvistPublisher: Coach House BooksPublication Date: Feb 08, 2022Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1552454312ISBN-13: 9781552454312

A novel about silence, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace sneaks the brutality of grief into your imaginationAuthor: Matthieu SimardPublisher: Coach House BooksPublication Date: Sep 17, 2019Number of...

A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until a monk...

Excellent...crystalline. -- New York Times Book Review, "Summer Reads" Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive. The...

Hide under your bed! Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret meets South Park in The Lillian Lectures, a collection of short poems and cheerfully nasty illustrations that will turn your universe on its...

A bad dream leads to a strange poetic pilgrimage through Japan in this playful and profound Booker International-shortlisted novel.Author: Marion PoschmannPublisher: Coach House BooksPublication...

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...

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a gay Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life...

There Is No Blue opens with the death of the author's mother, the washing of her body and the making of a death mask. A year later the author's sister, a schizophrenic, writes three reasons to die on...

CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023 When the pandemic forces a family to return to the mother's childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the...

From martyr to insult, how "Uncle Tom" has influenced two centuries of racial politics.Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson, and Christopher...

Author: Kathryn MocklerPublisher: Coach House BooksPublication Date: Nov 10, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1552454126ISBN-13: 9781552454121

A spaceship hurtles towards the moon, hippies gather at Woodstock, Charles Manson leads a cult into murder and a Kennedy drives off a Chappaquiddick dock: it's the summer of 1969. And as mankind...

Word ProblemsAuthor: Ian WilliamsPublisher: Coach House BooksPublication Date: Oct 13, 2020Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1552454142ISBN-13: 9781552454145

From the author of Maidenhead, a reverse cautionary tale about a young woman exploring the boundaries of sex and belonging in the early 2000s Distraught that her teenage daughter is in love with a...

Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of...

A rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head. Originally published in 1974, Yesterdays is nominally the story of one man's attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to...