Though many anthologies purport to establish a new canon, Desperately Seeking Susans simply luxuriates in the ridiculous surfeit of talent we can find in not only Canadian poets, not only female Canad
Long Legs Boy is the story of an unlikely hero, Modou, a twelve-year-old African boy who is orphaned when his family dies from AIDS. He leaves his remote village in the Sahel, seeks help from an Afric
Vancouver Islander Adrian Chamberlain always wanted a Porsche. When that turned out to be too expensive, he got a pug puppy instead. Adventures with Ollie is a collection of vignettes describing his f
In this exciting new anthology from Oolichan Books, editors Kim Clark and Dawn Marie Kresan comb the Canadian landscape for its redheaded writers. Only 2% of the world's population is born with red lo
What is a neighbourhood? What holds it together? What tears it apart? Each has its own geography, relying on such social networks as schools, parks, libraries, community centres, and places of worship
Elf, a newborn eagle, is frightened when he looks down from his nest, but to make him more independent his parents stop bringing him food and he is forced to learn to fly.
On the heels of the "hell bent for fun road trip" of the anthology Desperately Seeking Susans, here comes Catherines, the Great, a collection that gathers the poetry of both established and emerging C
Five minutes. That's all it takes for Sylvia to fulfill a life's ambition and simultaneously blast fracture lines through her most important relationships. Sylvia, fourteen, rides her horse in a cross
Evelyn Lau? new book of poems, A Grain of Rice, picks up on some of the themes she covered in her last wonderful book, Living Under Plastic. Once again she honours people, in particular family, and th
Rainbow Stage-Manchuria, Steve Noyes? fifth collection, sees him return to the long poem twice over, displaying his range and inventiveness. ?ainbow Stage?presents a 1973 rock concert in real time by
Sylvia, who is fourteen and the same size as an eight-year-old, desperately wants a horse, but her psychoanalyst mother sees unhealthy obsessions in everything she does and her grandfather says she ha
In this long-awaited novel, Caroline Woodward returns to her Peace River roots.Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny is a contemporary story about middle-aged love enduring despite many obstacles. It is
The Missionary, The Violinist And The Aunt Whose Head Was Squeezed follows a five month journey that Keith Harrison made into the past. This narrative diary explores the gaps and myths of family histo
The Wind River Variations is a collection of poems and prose-poems given birth by Brian Brett's participation in one of a series of river expeditions in the summer of 2003, introducing artists, enviro
Living Under Plastic represents a major departure from Evelyn Lau's previous poetry books. Instead of the obsessive focus on relationships and emotional damage that has characterized much of her earl
When a group of boys set off into the forest to catch the uirapurau bird, they encounter an old man trying to mimic the bird's song and a maiden of the moon.
Leaving the Farm is a poignant, funny, beautifully rendered memoir about growing up on a small Minnesota dairy farm in the 1950s. It was a time when family farms throughout North America were beginnin
Shirin and Salt Man is a novella in verse, which tells the story of a young modern day Iranian woman, Shirin. She is an ordinary girl from Kermanshah born before the Islamic Revolution, who imagines
The old rope-maker who sits under the apple tree quietly watches the world that passes him by, but while he does so, he gathers the world's stories. So when he starts to tell his tale, everything can
Susan Telfer?s intense poems in Ghost Town are possessed of a wild brilliance all their own. There is a raw, unruly, exhumed energy coming to the surface of these poems, which is the source of their p
Krissy Mathews has returned. Four years ago, the seventeen-year-old vanished. The young detective assigned to her case has hunted her relentlessly. Now she bursts through the door of the hospital, a l
In this study of Emilio Picariello (aka Emperor Pick) Adriana Davies paints a vivid portrait of what life was like at the turn of the 20th century in the Canadian west for Italian immigrants, with opp
Teenaged Rufus has a good sense of his family: he is the watcher; his twin sister is the sensible one; his younger sister is the funny one; and his younger brother is the quiet one. Rufus?s parents ar
Mush is a Gypsy word meaning 'friend'. Mush and the Big Blue Flower is the story of a little boy who is persuaded that he has lost his voice. Unwilling to return to his mother without it, he goes look
Anna always looked forward to summer holidays. This summer is different. Anna is sent to live with her Grandfather, an eccentric artist in his strange new studio. She's terribly afraid that she will b
The characters in A Crack in the Wall share a strong sense of home, whether it is a lifelong sanctuary, or a shell as fragile as the person who inhabits it. A young kleptomaniac ventures outside the s
The second in a trilogy of magic-fantasy-adventure. In The Cloak of Golden Symbols, Anna returns to her grandfather's home and studio for another summer. She is excited to spend her time with Stephano
The eighteen linked short stories in The Moon?s Fireflies take us inside the experience of living as a foreigner in an African village. Adopted by two village boys, Effiong and Little Etim, the narrat
Gerry James, aka Kid Dynamite, was not only the youngest player ever to play in the CFL at 17, but he was one of the toughest athletes of his time. While playing with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1954
At age 21, Mary Broom was sentenced to hang for the crime of stealing a cloak. When her sentence was commuted to transportation "upon the sea, beyond the seas," she was sent to Australia. One of the f
Four mismatched teens. One act of violence. One nod by each of them to agree it never happened. This raucous yet poignant story of friendship, loss and long-denied regret springs to life in the dying
?We were once here? resonates through this collection of short stories set in the small town of Fernie high in the Rocky Mountains. The gossips, the busy bodies, the do-gooders, the miscreants, societ
