Awards by Book
By Tetsuro Shigematsu
Short-listed 2019 Governor General's Award for Drama
Winner 2018 Jessie Richardson Award for Significant Artistic Achievement - Small Theatre
From the award-winning Canadian playwright, performer, and radio broadcaster Tetsuro Shigematsu comes 1 Hour Photo, the follow-up to his acclaimed one-man play Empire of the Son, which was nominated for six Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Shigematsu’s outstanding new play, another multifaceted portrayal of a singular figure, tells the story of…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .75 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012156
| Rights: WORLD
By François Archambault
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Winner 1998 Governor General’s Award for Drama
Short-listed 2000 Governor General's Award for Translation
A young woman, her sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X loser, and his disabled brother. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2000
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224278
| Rights: WORLD
By David French
Short-listed 1988 BC Book Prize for Non-Fiction
Newfoundland joins Confederation in the continuing saga of the Mercer family. Cast of 6 women, 6 men and 2 male children.
$18.95 | 176 pages | Pub. Date: 1989
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222663
| Rights: WORLD
By Morris Panych
Winner 1998 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play, The Sydney Risk Award
A man’s contemplation of suicide leads to a charming and surprising ending. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
$17.95 | 104 pages | Pub. Date: 1990
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222816
| Rights: WORLD
By Guillermo Verdecchia
Winner 2009 MECCA Awards
Winner 2010 MECCA Award
A young Palestinian is befriended, then tortured and murdered by Canadian soldiers during Operation Desert Storm. Cast of 3 to 5 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1997
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223752
| Rights: WORLD
By Stéphane Bourguignon
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott
Short-listed 2009 Governor General's Award for Translation
Writing in multiple voices, with keen psychological insight, Bourguignon examines relationships, past wounds and present possibilities with raucous warmth.
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
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Edition # 1
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.5 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889225961
| Rights: WORLD
By Wendy Lill
Short-listed 1994 Governor General's Award for Drama
A play about modern day witch-hunting. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.45 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223363
| Rights: WORLD
By Martine Desjardins
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel
Short-listed 2005 Governor General's Literary Award
Haunted by the iron jealousy of their commanding officer, Dulac and Nell must risk everything to pursue each of their desires.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889225206
| Rights: WORLD
By Adeena Karasick
Joint winner 2009 One of the Best Books of 2009 (About.com)
Mashing up the lexicon of war with post-industrial consumerism, haute cuisine, couture, language, Eros and desire, Karasick’s sixth book is at once dark and satirical, exuberant and amorously rigorous.
$19.95 | 108 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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Edition # 1
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226043
| Rights: WORLD
By Jónína Kirton
Short-listed 2018 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
An Honest Woman by Jónína Kirton confronts us with beauty and ugliness in the wholesome riot that is sex, love, and marriage. From the perspective of a mixed-race woman, Kirton engages with Simone de Beauvoir and Donald Trump to unravel the norms of femininity and sexuality that continue to adhere…
$16.95 | 104 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
6 W × 9 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: POE015000
ISBN 13: 9781772011449
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Nadeau
Translated by Maureen Labonté
Short-listed 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
Everything changes on what begins as a typical day in the life of the aptly named Mr. Mann, a forty-eight-year-old, buttoned-down, middle management type in a pinstriped grey suit, who feels himself losing touch with his job, his wife, his children, and the rest of his urban life. He wins tickets to a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters and realizes that the mid-life cocoon he has spun around himself is beginning to unwind.
$18.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2013
8.5 W × 5.5 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889227866
| Rights: WORLD
By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Winner 2013 Prix Méditerranée
Winner 2013 Prix du deuxieme roman
Winner 2012 Grand Prix Thyde Monnier
This award-winning novel by playwright Wadji Mouawad is a thriller and a road novel – written in the North African storytelling tradition in which events unfold from an animal point of view. The novel opens with a brutal murder: the protagonist arrives home to find his wife lying in a…
$19.95 | 368 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1.25 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772010039
| Rights: WORLD
By Joan MacLeod
Short-listed 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
This perceptively poignant Governor General’s Award-nominated play by Siminovitch Prize Winner MacLeod involves the hapless, substance-abusing, middle-aged petty criminal we expect to encounter, but is he the real threat to the elderly couple: who is it that’s robbing them of their possessions, their security, their relationship, their family—their home?
$16.95 | 64 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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Edition # 1
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.2 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226227
| Rights: WORLD
By Madeleine Gagnon
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott
Short-listed 2015 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation (Quebec Writers’ Federation Awards)
Poet, novelist, and critic Madeleine Gagnon reflects on life at the centre of Quebec literary arts by re-examining the influences of her early life: a pious childhood in a large, rural Catholic family, a rebellious youth, and intellectual development as a feminist. A central theme is Gagnon’s struggle for women’s equality and her refusal to be categorized by her gender.
$22.95 | 232 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889228962
| Rights: WORLD
By David Fennario
Winner 1980 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
The English and French working class get together on their balconies in Montreal. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1980
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889221451
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman
Winner 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889223806
| Rights: WORLD
By Chris Craddock & Nathan Cuckow
Winner 2007 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater
Winner 2007 Musical Award of the New York Fringe Festival
While the goal of BASH’d is first and foremost to tell an engaging gay love story, it also flips the music industry’s gangsta stereotype of rap music on its head and returns it to its political roots—in this case to explore the dangers of the kind of attitudes that continue to condone and even encourage sexual discrimination of all kinds in our society. Not since Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner has a narrative poem inspired such empathy in the hearts and minds of its audience.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226562
| Rights: WORLD
By Fred Wah & Rita Wong
Short-listed 2019 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Comprising two lines of poetic text flowing along a 114-foot-long map of the Columbia River, this powerful image-poem by acclaimed poets Fred Wah and Rita Wong presents language yearning to understand the consequences of our hydroelectric manipulation of one of North America’s largest river systems. beholden: a poem as long…
$24.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
10.125 W × 8.25 H × .75 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012118
| Rights: WORLD
By Mary Meigs
Edited by Lise Weil
Short-listed 2006 Lambda Literary Award
A beautiful memoir that reads like the most exquisitely crafted fiction.
$19.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
7.00 W × 10.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889225053
| Rights: WORLD
By John MacLachlan Gray
With Eric Peterson
Winner 1980 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1982 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Winner 1999 Jessie Richardson Award: The Sun Readers' Choice Award (Vancouver Playhouse)
One of Canada’s most successful and enduring musical plays, Billy Bishop Goes to War was first published in 1982 and went on to win the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award and the Governor General’s Award for Drama. In 2010, the celebrated story of the World War One flying ace –…
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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Edition # 2
5.5 W × 8.50 H × 0.25 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226890
| Rights: WORLD
By Maylis de Kerangal
Translated by Jessica Moore
Winner 2010 Médicis Prize
Winner 2010 Franz Hessel Prize
From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes Birth of a Bridge – the story of a handful of men and women of various backgrounds and classes, who assemble around the construction of a giant suspension bridge in Coca, a fictional city somewhere in a mythical…
$16.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
8.5 W × 5 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889228894
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Short-listed 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
This delightful collection of eight autobiographical narratives offers the reader an exquisite remembrance of Michel Tremblay’s childhood past.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2006
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889225411
| Rights: WORLD
By Marie Clements
Winner 2004 Canada Japan Literary Award English-Language
Short-listed 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award
Short-listed 2002 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play or Musical: Small Theatr
Miners, people of Hiroshima, and others labour under the false sun of uranium. Cast of 4 women and 6 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2003
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224728
| Rights: WORLD
By Lucia Frangione
Short-listed 2002 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play or Musical: Small Theatr
Winner 2002 Jessie Richardson Award for Sydney Risk Award
Hilarious drama ensues when a bedraggled troupe of players heads into the wilds of the Cariboo to perform a Christmas pageant. Set in the gold rush era, Cariboo Magi is an unabashed celebration of the power of theatre to renew our lives and banish our cares. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225275
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Short-listed 2013 Governor General's Literary Award (French drama)
Short-listed 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award, (Translation)
Governor General’s Literary Award, Translation: Michel Marc Bouchard, Christina, The Girl King, translated by Linda Gaboriau (Finalist)
Enigmatic, flamboyant, and unpredictable, with a passion for philosophy and the arts, Sweden’s Queen Christina seeks to make her country the most sophisticated in Europe. But her personal aspirations – and her unconventional sexuality – put her profoundly at odds with her culture’s expectations of her, both as a monarch and as a woman. She was Sweden’s Elizabeth Rex.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
8.5 W × 5.5 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889228986
| Rights: WORLD
By Dina Del Bucchia
Short-listed 2014 ReLit Awards, poetry category
Combining serial poetic technique with pop psychology how-to books, Dina Del Bucchia fashions punchy emotional guides in an age when illusory autonomy is achieved by “going viral” and through obsessive identification with celebrities. She tracks two otters at the Vancouver Aquarium who became famous for holding hands and were watched by millions on YouTube prompting us to meditate upon the media frustum through which we construct emotional realities.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
6 W × 9 H × .5 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE023000
ISBN 13: 9780889227644
| Rights: WORLD
By Marie Clements
Short-listed 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award
A multilayered drama based on the persona of famed Ojibwa artist Norval Morrisseau. Cast of 5 women and 4 men.
$16.95 | 84 pages | Pub. Date: 2007
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225688
| Rights: WORLD
By Wendy Lill
Short-listed 1999 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Corker uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous 19th-century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223943
| Rights: WORLD
By Drew Hayden Taylor
Shortlisted 2020 The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
Cottagers and Indians explores the politics and issues surrounding a real-life event still occurring in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario. An Indigenous man, Arthur Copper, has taken it upon himself to repopulate the nearby lakes with wild rice, known amongst the Anishnawbe as Manoomin, much to the disapproval…
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .75 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012309
| Rights: WORLD
By Daniel MacIvor
Foreword by Daniel Brooks
Short-listed 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Written by one of Canada’s most influential postmodern playwrights, this dazzling one-man show is storytelling of the highest order.
$16.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.2 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225152
| Rights: WORLD
By Michèle Mailhot
Translated by Neil B. Bishop
Preface by Marie-Claire Blais
Short-listed 1992 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
A solitary woman’s interior journey of self-discovery.
$15.95 | 64 pages | Pub. Date: 1991
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889222984
| Rights: WORLD
By Ken Belford
Short-listed 2011 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
If language is an index of belonging, then these poems are the writing of an exile, a tribe of one.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
6.00 W × 9.00 H × .25 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226319
| Rights: WORLD
By Garry Thomas Morse
Short-listed 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry
Short-listed 2012 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Joint winner 2011 One of the Top Ten Poetry Collections (Globe and Mail)
Joint winner 2012 One of the Best Ten Aboriginal Books from the past decade CBC - 8th Fire
With breathtaking virtuosity, Garry Thomas Morse sets out to recover the appropriated, stolen and scattered world of his ancestral people.
$17.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226609
| Rights: WORLD
By David Fennario
Short-listed 1994 Arthur Ellis Award
In 1876, Jack the Ripper, a.k.a. Canadian Dr. Cream, graduated from McGill’s faculty of medicine. Cast of 4 women and 6 men.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223325
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Short-listed 2000 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
15 years after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened: an old fishing spot on the river down Dangerous Passes Road. Cast of 3 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2000
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224407
| Rights: WORLD
By Jeff Derksen
Winner 1991 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Proposes a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in without returning to a garrison mentality.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1990
5.00 W × 8.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889222786
| Rights: WORLD
By Gil McElroy
Short-listed 2002 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
An active multiple streaming of apparently disparate sources: astronomy; theoretical cosmology and quantum physics; and the literary and visual arts.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2001
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224544
| Rights: WORLD
By Jeff Derksen
Short-listed 1994 Alberta Writer's Guild Award
This long poem blends and bends the lyric, procedural poetry, the travelogue and extended forms. Dwell lives in, or dwells on, the interaction of a restless subjectivity with the seemingly transparent, yet identifiable, social codes that encase us.
$15.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
5.00 W × 8.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223288
| Rights: WORLD
By Adeena Karasick
Winner 2000 Bumbershoot Most Adventurous Award
Cf. SEMA, unit of meaning: i.e. Dyssemia: (flawed information reception) Sleaze / sli:z/ v. Rough with projecting fibres.
$24.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2000
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224346
| Rights: WORLD
By Junie Désil
Finalist 2021 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
eat salt | gaze at the ocean explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives, using the original Haitian zombie as a metaphor for the condition and treatment of Black bodies. Interspersed with textual representations of zombies, Haitian society, and historical policies is the author’s personal narrative…
$17.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
6 W × 9 H × 0.256 D inches
Poetry | Frontlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012651
| Rights: WORLD
By Oana Avasilichioaei
Finalist 2020 The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Finalist 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry
Poet and intermedia artist Oana Avasilichioaei’s Eight Track is a transliterary exploration of traces. Sound recordings, surveillance cameras, desert geoglyphs, drone operators, refugee interviews, animal imprints, and audio signals manifest moments of inspired wonder, systems of power, slippages, debris. In “the great era of seeing” when the boundary between tracking…
$19.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
6 W × 7.75 H × 1 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012385
| Rights: WORLD
By Thierry Hentsch
Translated by Fred A. Reed
Short-listed 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
This second volume in Hentsch’s epic survey of the formative texts of the Western narrative tradition traces western civilization’s quest for immortality across a further four centuries through an examination of specific works by Moliére, Voltaire, Diderot, de Sade, Rousseau, Hegel, Melville, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust and others.
$29.95 | 416 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
Non-Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: LIT007000
ISBN 13: 9780889225879
| Rights: WORLD
By Lucia Frangione
Short-listed 2003 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play or Musical: Small Theatr
Sexy, provocative and challenging, Espresso inverts the Catholic stereotypes of feminine sexuality to boldly examine their corresponding masculine sexual emblems of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2004
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224957
| Rights: WORLD
By Martine Desjardins
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel
Winner 2001 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
A compulsively readable, beautiful and dark novel of stormy relationships and all-consuming desires.
$24.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2001
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889224490
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Winner 2000 Dora Mavor Moore Award General Theatre: Outstanding New Play
Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223899
| Rights: WORLD
By Cecily Nicholson
Winner 2015 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
BC Book Prize, Poetry: Cecily Nicholson, From the Poplars (Winner) In the North Arm of British Columbia’s Fraser River lies an uninhabited island. Guarded by water from the city of New Westminster’s bustling industrial and shipping district, Poplar Island is lush and unspoken, but storied. It is the traditional territory…
$16.95 | 104 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
8.75 W × 5.25 H × .25 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889228566
| Rights: WORLD
By Guillermo Verdecchia
Winner 1994 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1993 Governor General’s Award for Drama
One man’s struggle to find a home between two cultures, exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. Cast of 1 man.
$16.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 1997
| New edition
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223837
| Rights: WORLD
By Guillermo Verdecchia
Winner 1994 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1993 Governor General’s Award for Drama
One man’s struggle to find a home between two cultures, exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. Cast of 1 man.
$16.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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5.5 W × 8.5 H × .25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889227057
| Rights: WORLD
By Joshua Whitehead
Short-listed 2018 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Short-listed 2018 Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry in English by an emerging Indigenous writer
This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. This Trickster is a Two-Spirit / Indigiqueer invention that resurges in the apocalypse to haunt, atrophy, and to…
$18.95 | 136 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .75 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772011876
| Rights: WORLD
By Morris Panych
Winner 2002 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play or Musical: Large Theatre (
Winner 2003 Dora Mavor Moore Award General Theatre: Outstanding New Play (Tarragon Theatre)
Winner 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
It’s into the goldfish bowl of a dysfunctional family that the audience peers with acute recognition, hysterical laughter and an overwhelming sense of the creative healing power of the imagination. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2003
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224810
| Rights: WORLD
By Réjean Ducharme
Translated by Will Browning
Short-listed 1994 Governor General's French Fiction Award
A hauntingly beautiful tale of a Montreal couple alienated from each other after suffering the miscarriage of twins.
$19.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2003
8.5 W × 5.5 H × 1 D inches
Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889224827
| Rights: WORLD
By Michael Mercer
Winner 1986 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
From his wheelchair in a nursing home, Conrad Aiken recalls his long, stormy relations with Malcolm Lowry. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.
$16.95 | 120 pages | Pub. Date: 1986
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222380
| Rights: WORLD
By Colin Browne
Short-listed 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry
Short-listed 2003 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Investigates the elements of the spiritual topography of the twentieth century and closely examines the conventional symbology passed on to the poet / map-maker by his ancestors.
$19.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 2002
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224650
| Rights: WORLD
By Josh MacDonald
Short-listed 2004 Merritt Theatre Award for Best Play
When an image of Jesus appears on the side of a Tim Hortons restaurant, the town inhabitants are challenged to ask difficult questions about faith, life and love. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2002
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224698
| Rights: WORLD
By George F. Walker
Winner 2001 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Instantly recognizable multicultural characters play out their coincidental relationships in a park on the outskirts of a city. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2000
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224292
| Rights: WORLD
By derek beaulieu
Short-listed 2010 W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize
How to Write is a perverse Coles Notes: a paradigm of prosody where writing as sampling, borrowing, cutting-and-pasting and mash-up meets literature. This collection of conceptual short fiction takes inspiration from Lautréamont’s decree that “plagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the author’s sentence tight, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, replaces it with the right idea.”
$16.95 | 72 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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| Bisac: LAN005000
ISBN 13: 9780889226296
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By Bill Richardson
Longlisted 2020 The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
Nominated 2020 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Fourteen consecutive weeks on the BC Bestseller list
“By June, Philip’s view of English Bay, what’s left of it, will be utterly gone. It was always going to happen. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to see what’s out there. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to know what to do.” Eight…
$16.95 | 264 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
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| Bisac: FIC029000
ISBN 13: 9781772012330
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By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Winner 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
In an impromptu get-together in an opera diva’s Nuns’ Island penthouse, on the afternoon of her return from Paris, her celebrity mother and her idealistic daughter lie in wait for her. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2002
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224704
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By Drew Hayden Taylor
Short-listed 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
A Canadian half-Native man is thrust into an absurd dilemma when he is asked to be tested for a possible kidney donation to his dying non-Native father, who abandoned him when he was two months old. Cast of 2 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2006
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225374
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Edited by Leslie Robertson & Dara Culhane
Winner 2006 George Ryga Award
Short-listed 2005 City of Vancouver Book Award
Seven life stories from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, giving voice to women who are seldom heard on their own terms.
$19.95 | 180 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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| Bisac: SOC021000
ISBN 13: 9780889225138
| Rights: WORLD
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
By Dominique Scali
Winner 2015 Winner, First Novel Award in Chambéry
Short-listed 2015 Finalist, Governor General’s Literary Award (2015)
Short-listed 2015 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
Short-listed 2015 Prix des libraires du Québec
In this atmospheric, post–Cormac McCarthy western novel, four disparate characters criss-cross the desert in pursuit of an impossible ideal. Along the way, these wily characters captivate and intrigue as they seek the American dream in a lawless town in the 1860s. Reverend Aaron is found lying unconscious on the dusty…
$16.95 | 320 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772011241
| Rights: WORLD
By Mary Meigs
Winner 1992 QSPELL Award for Non-fiction
Based on the NFB production of The Company of Strangers, Meigs’s account of the film unfolds in an intricate meditation on time, old age and bonding.
$18.95 | 176 pages | Pub. Date: 1991
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| Bisac: BIO026000
ISBN 13: 9780889222946
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By George Ryga
Short-listed 1986 BC Book Prize: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Set in the desert at the Mexico-U.S.A. border, this novel deals with the hope and despair of immigrant labourers.
$24.95 | 288 pages | Pub. Date: 1985
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889222335
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By Franz Boas
Edited by Randy Bouchard & Dorothy Kennedy
Translated by Dietrich Bertz
Short-listed 2003 BC Book Prize: Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
This volume of Native myths and legends is an indispensable document in the history of North American anthropology.
$39.95 | 704 pages | Pub. Date: 2006
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| Bisac: SOC011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225534
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By Daniel Arnold & Darrell Dennis & Medina Hahn
Finalist of 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
You take your seat in the theatre. You are given a remote control. The play begins. An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man staying there instead. They ask…
$24.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772013627
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By Jordan Abel
Winner 2017 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize
Award-winning Nisg̱a’a poet Jordan Abel’s third collection, Injun, is a long poem about racism and the representation of indigenous peoples. Composed of text found in western novels published between 1840 and 1950 – the heyday of pulp publishing and a period of unfettered colonialism in North America – Injun then…
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2016
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229778
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By bill bissett
Winner 2003 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
When bill bissett thinks “inkorrect thots” anything can happen.
$17.95 | 136 pages | Pub. Date: 1992
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223035
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By Fred Wah
Winner 2010 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
is a door uses the poem’s ability for “suddenness” to subvert closure: the sudden question, the sudden turn, the sudden opening—writing that is generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem solving, collaborative events, travel, investigation documentary.
$17.95 | 120 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226203
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By Marcus Youssef
Foreword by Dennis Foon
Winner 2013 Best New Text, Montreal English Language Theatre Awards
Winner 2019 IKARUS Prize
Fatima and her friends call themselves the “jabbers,” because they wear hijab. But when anti-Muslim graffiti appears on the walls of Fatima’s school, Fatima’s parents force her to transfer to a new school. In an unfamiliar environment where none of her peers share the Egyptian-born teen’s background, Fatima starts an…
$16.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889229501
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By Kim Senklip Harvey
Winner of 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
TIME: All. SPACE: The Multiverse. Come along for the ride to Kamloopa, the largest Powwow on the West Coast. This high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless Trickster who face our world head-on as they come to terms with what it means to honour who…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012422
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By Sherrill Grace
Winner 2009 Ann Saddlemyer Award
The story of Pollock’s life from her family roots in New Brunswick through her pioneering years as a Canadian playwright to the present as she continues to make theatre.
$39.95 | 480 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
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| Bisac: BIO005000
ISBN 13: 9780889225862
| Rights: WORLD
By Martine Desjardins
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel
Winner 2013 Sunburst Award
Short-listed 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award (French Fiction)
Winner 2010 Prix Jacques Brossard
Short-listed 2010 Prix des libraires du Québec
2010 Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie
Martine Desjardins delivers to readers of Maleficium the unexpurgated revelations of Vicar Jerome Savoie, a heretic priest in nineteenth-century Montreal. Braving threats from the Catholic Church, Savoie violates the sanctity of the confessional in a confession-within-a-confession, in which seven penitents, each afficted with a debilitating malady or struck with a…
$16.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889226807
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By Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Winner of 2018 Prix Pierre-Vadeboncœur
Finalist for 2018 Governor General’s Award for French-Language Non-Fiction
Finalist for 2019 Prix des libraires
In this exhaustively researched work of investigative journalism, Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny examines the causes and after-effects of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. When a driverless, out-of-control train carrying highly volatile crude oil decimated the downtown area of the picturesque town of Lac-Mégantic, it immediately killed forty-seven people and lead to the…
$24.95 | 336 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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| Bisac: LAW117000
ISBN 13: 9781772012590
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By Adeena Karasick
Short-listed 1995 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Mêmewars is a book writing against itself.
$16.95 | 120 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223448
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By Maylis de Kerangal
Translated by Jessica Moore
Long-listed 2016 Man Booker International Prize
Winner 2017 Wellcome Book Prize
Mend the Living is the story of a heart transplant, centred around Simon Limbeau, the boy whose heart is given, and his family. Taking place within exactly twenty-four hours, the novel traces the thrill of an early-morning winter surf session, the terrible accident that follows, and all the urgency and compassion of the hospital workers, and shock and grief of Simon’s family as they negotiate the question of organ donation. Weaving from hospital corridors to the wild waves of the Atlantic, from the narrow streets of Paris to the countryside in Algeria where goldfinches still sing, from the most intimate details of grief within a car in Le Havre to universal considerations of science, compassion, and humanity, Mend the Living is a powerful and vast-ranging book.
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2016
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889229730
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By Lise Tremblay
Translated by Gail Scott
Winner 1999 Governor General's French Fiction Award
Mile End is a chilling and masterful look at the interior landscapes of psychosis which mirror so perfectly the emptiness of the exterior surfaces they reflect.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2002
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889224674
| Rights: WORLD
By Bill Schermbrucker
Winner 1989 BC Book Prize: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
An authentic re-creation of an extraordinary life set against the turbulent backdrop of colonial Africa.
$24.95 | 320 pages | Pub. Date: 1988
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889222540
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By Garry Thomas Morse
Short-listed 2013 ReLit Awards
In tribute to the surrealist narrative techniques of André Breton and Robert Desnos, Minor Episodes documents the serial adventures of Minor, the ubiquitous “everymogul” who embodies the economic 1% and keeps musically erotic quixotics on tap. Having entered a “rent in time” that gives each chapter an alternate reality, Minor…
$16.95 | 288 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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| Bisac: FIC009040
ISBN 13: 9780889226975
| Rights: WORLD
By Linda A. Carson & Jill Daum & Alison Kelly & Barbara Pollard & Robin Nichol & Deborah Williams
Winner 1995 Arts Club Theatre, Jessie Richardson Award: Outstanding Original Play or Musical
Humourous stories, bittersweet monologues, poetic reflections and revelatory anecdotes about motherhood.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2000
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224315
| Rights: WORLD
By Fred Wah
Finalist 2021 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
The music of thinking. The thinking of music. Music at the Heart of Thinking is a poetry that works through language as the true practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens to and notates thinking. From jazz, the unpredictable ad lib driving itself from itself. From a…
$24.95 | 272 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012620
| Rights: WORLD
By George Bowering
Short-listed 2011 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Initially lacking a “subject,” the book’s metanarrative almost inevitably took the shape of an exquisite poetic autobiography that is at once both intensely personal and profoundly public. In it, among many other astonishments, we discover the deeply ambiguous roots of his father’s favourite folksong; we catch a fleeting childhood glimpse of Bowering’s young mother; a complete history of Cuba in the context of US foreign policy in Latin America that gives an entirely new, but older, meaning to the date September 11; and the roots of tragedy that led to the “Balkanization” of Yugoslavia.
$39.95 | 416 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226340
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By Madeleine Gagnon
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott
Long-listed 2007 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
A young woman embarks upon an emotionally resonant journey in search of a peaceful new life.
$19.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2006
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889225428
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By Harry Robinson
Edited by Wendy Wickwire
Winner 1993 B.C. Book Prize
Many of the stories in Harry Robinson’s second collection feature the shoo-MISH, or “nature helpers” that assist humans and sometimes provide them with special powers. Some tell of individuals who use these powers to heal themselves; others tell of Indian doctors who have been given the power to heal others.…
$24.95 | 272 pages | Pub. Date: 2013
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| Bisac: SOC002010
ISBN 13: 9780889225046
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By Bryden MacDonald
Short-listed 2015 Governor General's Award (Drama)
Welcome to the small town of Tartan Cross, Nova Scotia, where skeletons rattle in closets and past histories are so intertwined that the lives of four forty-something, eccentric characters have become so complicated that something needs to change. In the comedy, Odd Ducks, award-winning playwright Bryden MacDonald positions his four characters at the brink of existential angst – and the action unfolds from there.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889229341
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By David Fennario
Winner 1976 Chalmers Award (Best Canadian Play)
On Christmas Eve the workers in a Montreal shipping room get drunk and go on strike. Cast of 8 men.
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1976
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889221024
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By Stephen Collis
Winner 2011 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on language, geography, socio-economics and the body, moving from the glut of fossil-fuelled consumer excess to the materiality of a single book. The final section is a sequence of poems in memory of Stephen Collis’s departed sister, Gail Tulloch, becoming a way for the poet to read back into the elemental heart of absence and loss—the “material” of the books displacing, and in some way recovering, how language holds the materiality of the physical world.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226326
| Rights: WORLD
By M.A.C. Farrant
Eleven weeks on the BC Bestseller list
Written in sixty short epistolary chapters, award winning author M.A.C. Farrant’s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society.
$19.95 | 200 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: BIO022000
ISBN 13: 9781772012842
| Rights: WORLD
By Drew Hayden Taylor
Introduction by Lee Maracle
Winner 1996 Dora Mavor Moore Award (Small Theatre: Outstanding New Play)
The emotional struggle of an adopted Native woman to acknowledge her birth family. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223844
| Rights: WORLD
By Roy K. Kiyooka
Edited by Roy Miki
Winner 1997 Association of Asian American Studies Poetry Award
The most important poetic works of visual artist, sculptor, film-maker, photographer, writer and poet Roy Kiyooka.
$29.95 | 320 pages | Pub. Date: 1997
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223783
| Rights: WORLD
By bill bissett
Winner 2003 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
bissett’s deliciously comic interrogation of the socio-political events towering around us like so many boxes.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2002
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224643
| Rights: WORLD
By Dominic Champagne
Translated by Shelley Tepperman
Short-listed 1994 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation
A mordant satire on the relation between theatre and life. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1993
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223356
| Rights: WORLD
By Mercedes Eng
Winner 2018 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Combining text from government questionnaires and reports, lyric poetry, and photography, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes examines the possibility of a privatized prison system in Canada leading up to then Prime Minister Harper’s Conservative government passing the Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51. This legislation criminalizes Indigenous peoples’ attempts to…
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772011814
| Rights: WORLD
By Garry Thomas Morse
Short-listed 2014 ReLit Awards, novel category
In Rogue Cells, Oober Mann emerges from his cryobed on high alert in New Haudenosaunee, a nation at war with the mysterious territory Nutella during a critical election year. Citizens here live in dread of celebrities who carry out terrorist actions in defence of their own fundamentalist belief systems, including…
$19.95 | 448 pages | Pub. Date: 2013
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| Bisac: FIC028010
ISBN 13: 9780889227767
| Rights: WORLD
By Dina Del Bucchia & Daniel Zomparelli
Commended 2015 Alcuin Awards for Book Design in Canada
At precisely the cultural moment you were hoping for, a dream team of smart, sexy, brunette, West Coast poets of Italian descent has passionately co-authored an intelligent collection of poetry that both celebrates and capsizes the romantic comedy. From the origin of the genre (It Happened One Night) to its…
$19.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229600
| Rights: WORLD
By David French
Winner 1985 Dora Mavor Moore Award (Outstanding New Play)
Winner 1985 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner Canadian Authors Association Literary Award
Winner Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics Award and ACTRA Award
The third book of the Mercer family saga. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
$16.95 | 88 pages | Pub. Date: 1988
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222571
| Rights: WORLD
By Donato Mancini
Short-listed 2018 Grffin Poetry Prize
Same Diff by Donato Mancini meets at the intersection of contemporary poetry, art, and current politics. Influenced by documentary cinema such as the films of Frederic Wiseman, Dada poets, montage techniques, and a range of modern poets, Same Diff explores the way social and economic histories become imprinted within language…
$16.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772011364
| Rights: WORLD
By Fred Wah
Introduction by Jeff Derksen
Commended 2015 Best 75 Books (CBC Books)
Fred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles and preoccupations. Scree collects Wah’s concrete and sound poetry of the 1960s, his landscape-centric work of the 1970s, and his ethnicity-oriented poems of the 1980s. Fred was a founding member of the avant-garde TISH group, which helped…
$49.95 | 648 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229471
| Rights: WORLD
By Phyllis Webb
Edited by Sharon Thesen
Winner 1982 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry
Poetry distinguished by its attention to form and thought.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 1982
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889222021
| Rights: WORLD
By Fred Wah
Short-listed 2009 ReLit Award for Poetry
Astonishing series of collaborative image-text projects, Sentenced to Light whispers between words and pictures in a space we call culture.
$29.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225770
| Rights: WORLD
By Wanda John-Kehewin
Short-listed 2019 Indigenous Voices Award
Seven Sacred Truths presents a powerful exploration of an Indigenous woman’s healing journey. Seeing the world through “brown” eyes, poet Wanda John-Kehewin makes new meaning of the past, present, and future through a consideration of Love, Wisdom, Truth, Honesty, Respect, Humility, and Courage. By sharing her views on these Seven…
$18.95 | 136 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
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| Bisac: POE015000
ISBN 13: 9781772012132
| Rights: WORLD
By Wendy Lill
Winner 1992 Gemini Award
Winner 1992 Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival, Labatt's Play Award
A tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. The soul-destroying devastation caused by these institutions from the point of view of the nuns running the school. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1991
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222892
| Rights: WORLD
By Simon Brousseau
Translated by Pablo Strauss
Short-listed 2019 Governor General's Award for Translation
Synapses depicts a vast society of differing psyches, all unique, idiosyncratic, and interconnected. Simon Brousseau’s beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each written in a single, stylistically accomplished sentence and featuring a different character, will linger with readers. Synapses will integrate into your own neural pathways, inviting you to join the network…
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772012231
| Rights: WORLD
By Ronald Lavallée
Translated by Patricia Claxton
Short-listed 1994 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
A sweeping historical novel about the collision of Native and colonial cultures.
$34.95 | 480 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889223387
| Rights: WORLD
By Kevin Loring
Finalist 2019 Governor General's Award for Drama
Nan’s family is home for Thanksgiving, but some unsolicited truths are about to be dropped at the dinner table. Old wounds and new realities collide, and sibling rivalry is stoked, but the enduring spirit that guides this family charges on, ever fierce. Thanks for Giving offers plenty to chew on.…
$19.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012187
| Rights: WORLD
By Larry Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman
Short-listed 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
Singularly obsessed with Anna, the object of his adolescent desire, photographer Christophe Langelier embarks on an extraordinary journey—which takes him from the streets of Montreal to the Island of Women off the coast of Mexico—to escape the all-consuming flames of his unrequited passion. The Bicycle Eater is a comic, surrealist novel of metamorphosis unleashed by hopeless desire, a riotous, colourful burlesque where nothing and no one remain what they seem.
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889225282
| Rights: WORLD
By M.A.C. Farrant
Short-listed 2017 Victoria City Book Prize
Let yourself be excited and delighted. Farrant’s artfully spare stories – averaging a couple of paragraphs each – offer enough food for thought (and mood) to keep you going for months. Dip in occasionally to be reminded of the strangeness of us, or read from beginning to end and immerse yourself in a slightly skewed version of reality – one in which people are frank and the world is unforgiving as it shimmers like light on water, sometimes blinding, always dazzling.
$14.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2016
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772010077
| Rights: WORLD
By Hervé Fischer
Translated by Rhonda Mullins
Short-listed 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
The digital distribution has levelled the creative playing field between the towering Hollywood empire and marginalized independent artists and producers.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2006
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.45 D inches
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| Bisac: PER004030
ISBN 13: 9780889225459
| Rights: WORLD
By Dukesang Wong
Edited by David McIlwraith
Translated by Wanda Joy Hoe
Finalist 2021 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
The Diary of Dukesang Wong restores a lost central voice to a foundational episode in Canadian history – one that changes our understanding of the history it recounts. Dukesang Wong’s remarkable diary tells of the appalling conditions, the punishing work, the camaraderie, the sickness and starvation, the encounters with Indigenous…
$18.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 0.362 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO006000
ISBN 13: 9781772012583
| Rights: WORLD
By Morris Panych
Short-listed 2005 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play (Arts Club Theatre)
Haplessly determined to have his own miserable authority vindicated, chief dishwasher Dressler presides over the steam-choked basement of an upscale restaurant, tyrannizing his co-workers with his rants of pride of craft and Marxist rhetoric. Cast of 3 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225244
| Rights: WORLD
By Morris Panych
Winner 1994 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Panych’s brilliant tale reminds us all that fear can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 1993
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223349
| Rights: WORLD
By John Murrell
Winner 1996 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Georgia O’Keeffe resigns herself to an old age spent alone in the auburn and tawny light of her beloved Faraway mountains, in the desert’s dangerous energies, its desolate beauty, until a stranger enters her life. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
$10.95 | 64 pages | Pub. Date: 1995
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780921368564
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman
Short-listed 2009 Canada Reads Competition
Tremblay’s first novel is an affectionate and funny chronicle of the lives of a family in its community.
$19.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 1981
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889221901
| Rights: WORLD
By Wendy Lill
Winner 1996 Governor General’s Drama Award
The ill-fated love between a wandering musician and a Cape Breton coalminer’s daughter. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1996
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223691
| Rights: WORLD
By Daphne Marlatt
Translated by Toyoshi Yoshihara
Preface by Richard Emmert
Winner 2008 Uchimura Naoya Prize
Winner of the prestigious 2008 Uchimura Naoya Prize, The Gull is a play written in the classical Noh style. Set in 1950, when wartime restrictions on interned Japanese Canadians had finally been lifted, allowing them to return to the coast, it exquisitely dramatizes the historical link between the fishing town of Steveston, home to many Japanese Canadians, and Mio, the coastal village in Japan from which many of their ancestors originally emigrated. An international collaboration, The Gull featured: Noh master Akira Matsui, declared an Important Intangible Cultural Asset by Japan in 1998, as the main actor; music by American Noh expert Richard Emmert; masks by Wakayama artist Hakuzan Kubo; and a troupe of professional Noh musicians from Japan.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226166
| Rights: WORLD
By Joan MacLeod
Winner 1993 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
One of these plays uses natural disaster as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis; the other tackles issues of self-image.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1999
| Revised edition
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224117
| Rights: WORLD
By Sachiko Murakami
Short-listed 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry
Short-listed 2009 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Murakami’s first book of poetry, written in the political and emotional wake of Vancouver’s “Missing Women,” this project investigates the troubled relationship between a marginalized neighbourhood’s “invisible” populations and the city that surrounds them.
$16.95 | 84 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225794
| Rights: WORLD
By Daniel Brooks & Guillermo Verdecchia
Winner 1992 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Finalist 1992 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
An innovative, multi-layered deconstruction of mass media and politics. Cast of 2 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1997
| New edition
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224056
| Rights: WORLD
By Dorothy Dittrich
Winner of 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Dorothy Dittrich’s The Piano Teacher is a play about loss, love, friendship, and the healing power of music. When Erin, a classical pianist, experiences the loss of the life she knew, she meets an unconventional piano teacher who gives her new hope for the future.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .75 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772014020
| Rights: WORLD
By Jordan Abel
Winner 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (B.C. Book Prizes)
Short-listed 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
George Ryga Award for Social Award: Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps (Finalist) BC Book Prize, Poetry: Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps (Winner) The Place of Scraps revolves around Marius Barbeau, an early-twentieth-century ethnographer, who studied many of the First Nations cultures in the Pacific Northwest, including Jordan Abel’s…
$24.95 | 288 pages | Pub. Date: 2013
9 W × 6 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889227880
| Rights: WORLD
By Colin Browne
Short-listed 2013 Ethel Wilson Poetry Prize
Poetry begins when the properties of things—and the correspondences among them—reveal themselves through language. Language is the veil that can pierce itself.
The poems in The Properties are a record of encounters between desire and the repressed or suppressed interstices of social, economic, political and unconscious forces. They’re alert to correspondences, attentive to the lines of force to which the poet’s family quietly assented in the contested place that is the Northwest Coast of North America.
$19.95 | 176 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226852
| Rights: WORLD
By rob mclennan
Short-listed 2000 Archibald Lampman Poetry Award
Thoroughly grounded in the media culture of television and film, mclennan’s language casts a deceptively familiar veil over the breadth and depth of reading which inform this
work.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1999
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224247
| Rights: WORLD
By Brian Fawcett
Short-listed 1986 BC Book Prize: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
An industrial biography that investigates personal myths and the great “machines” that drive the world to the abyss of development.
$19.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 1985
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889222274
| Rights: WORLD
By Colin Browne
Short-listed 2008 ReLit Award for Poetry
In this extraordinary book, Colin Browne inverts the traditional ways we define and privilege forms of the English language; self-expression becomes prosaic, the recording of history poetic.
$19.95 | 190 pages | Pub. Date: 2007
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225749
| Rights: WORLD
By M.A.C. Farrant
Long-listed 2012 One of the Top Twenty-Three Canadian Fiction Books of 2012 (Globe and Mail)
This tell-all book by M.A.C. Farrant is a three-part novel-length work of prose fragments, snippets, questions, speculations and meditations, by turns philosophical, dark, comedic and lyrical, it attempts to imagine a multitude of possible futures for our garrisoned world.
$16.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889226685
| Rights: WORLD
By Carmen Aguirre
Short-listed 2005 Jessie Richardson Award for Innovation Award (Touchstone Theatre)
Based on the author’s own experience as a victim of the Paper Bag Rapist, The Trigger is a play written for anyone who has ever dealt with sexual violation and who continues to live with it at their core. Cast of 5 women.
$16.95 | 64 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225916
| Rights: WORLD
By Christian Guay-Poliquin
Translated by David Homel
Longlisted 2020 The Sunburst Award
WINNER Prix littéraire France-Québec
WINNER Governor General’s Literary Award for French-Language Fiction
WINNER Prix Ringuet
WINNER Prix littéraire des collégiens
A badly injured man. A nationwide power failure. A village buried in snow. A desperate struggle for survival. These are the ingredients of The Weight of Snow, Christian Guay-Poliquin’s riveting new novel. After surviving a major accident, the book’s protagonist is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees…
$19.95 | 240 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
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| Bisac: FIC028070
ISBN 13: 9781772012224
| Rights: WORLD
By M.A.C. Farrant
Winner 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
In The World Afloat, a collection of seventy-five irreverent and humorous “miniature” stories, M.A.C. Farrant coaxes her readers from their well-worn, earthbound narratives and into a world afloat on satire, absurdity, and, in her most brilliant moments, expansive joy.
$12.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
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| Bisac: FIC029000
ISBN 13: 9780889228382
| Rights: WORLD
By Bev Sellars
44 weeks on the B.C. Bestsellers list in 2013 & 2014!
First Nation Communities READ – Periodical Marketers of Canada Aboriginal Literature award (2017–2018), Finalist
Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature (2014), 3rd Prize
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (B.C. Book Prizes, 2014), Finalist
Named one of 15 memoirs by Indigenous writers you need to read (CBC Books, 2017)
Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu’ll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to “civilize” Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline.…
$19.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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| Bisac: BIO026000
ISBN 13: 9780889227415
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Winner 2014 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Drama
Lambda Literary Award, Drama: Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm, translated by Linda Gaboriau (Winner) Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels to the country to attend the funeral and to meet his mother-in-law, Agatha, and her…
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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| Bisac: DRA004010
ISBN 13: 9780889227590
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By Bev Christensen
Short-listed 1996 BC Book Prize: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Examines the question of who is to control North America’s vital water and power resources in the 21st century.
$29.95 | 352 pages | Pub. Date: 1995
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| Bisac: POL033000
ISBN 13: 9780889223547
| Rights: WORLD
By Joan MacLeod
Short-listed 2008 ReLit Award (Longlist)
This play, based on MacLeod’s experience with the mentally handicapped, celebrates personal challenges. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225831
| Rights: WORLD
By Thierry Hentsch
Translated by Fred A. Reed
Winner 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
In the tradition of James Frazer, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, Thierry Hentsch retells, with new urgency and a keen critical eye, “the story of the West” that shapes our perception of the world. Yet, “the story of the West” does not exist. Only a reading of its most seminal texts—from Ulysses to Hamlet, from the Torah to the Gospels, from Plato to Descartes—can bring it alive.
$29.95 | 416 pages | Pub. Date: 2004
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| Bisac: LIT007000
ISBN 13: 9780889225091
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman
Short-listed 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
An account of Tremblay’s discovery of the theatre, from his first recognition at the age of six of how the imagination is actually a public construct, to his winning of a drama competition with his first play.
$18.95 | 192 pages | Pub. Date: 2002
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889224667
| Rights: WORLD
By Kevin Kerr
Winner 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Winner 2001 Jessie Richardson Award for Large Theatre: Significant Artistic Achievement Nomin
Winner 2001 Jessie Richardson Award for Sydney Risk Award (Arts Club Theatre)
In 1918, the dreaded “spanish” flu fills the town of Unity with paranoia. Cast of 6 women and 3 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2002
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224612
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Edited by Stan Douglas
Commended 2011 Alcuin Awards for Book Design
First published in 1991, this larger format, new edition coincides with a renewal of the Or Gallery’s mandate to incite and promote critical discourse both within and outside of the Vancouver art community.
$35 | 368 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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| Bisac: ART015040
ISBN 13: 9780889226142
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By Cecily Nicholson
Winner 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Poetry
Wayside Sang concerns entwined migrations of Black-other diaspora coming to terms with fossil-fuel psyches in times of trauma and movement. This is a poetic account of economy travel on North American roadways, across Peace and Ambassador bridges and through the Fleetway tunnel, above and beneath Great Lake rivers between nation…
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772011821
| Rights: WORLD
By Kevin Loring
Winner 2009 Governor General's Award for Drama
Winner 2009 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script
Winner 2009 Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright
Irreverently funny and brutally honest Governor General’s Award-winning play about loss and redemption. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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ISBN 13: 9780889226081
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By Daniel Canty
Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei
Runner-up 2014 Alcuin Award for Book Design in Canada
Winner 2012 Grafika Grand Prize Winner (Typography)
It’s October 1944. During a brief respite from the aerial bombardment of London, Sebastian Wigrum absconds from his small flat and disappears into the fog for a walk in the Unreal City. This is our first and only encounter with the enigmatic man we come to discover decades later through more than one hundred everyday objects he has left behind. Wigrum’s bequest is a meticulously catalogued collection of the profoundly ordinary: a camera, some loose teeth, candies and keys, soap, bits of string, hazelnuts, and a handkerchief. Moving through the inventory artifact to artifact, story to story, we become immersed in a dreamlike narrative bricolage determined as much by the objects’ museological presentation as by the tender and idiosyncratic mania of Wigrum’s impulse to collect them.
$14.95 | 200 pages | Pub. Date: 2013
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889227781
| Rights: WORLD
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