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
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC029000
ISBN 13: 9781772012330
| Rights: WORLD
In these quirky, imaginative stories about writing and writers, Bartleby, scrivener (a.k.a. Quartermain), goes her stubborn way haunted by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin Blaser, Daphne Marlatt, and other forebears. Who is writing whom, these stories ask in their musing reflections—the writer or the written? The thinker or the alphabet? The calligrapher or the pictograms hidden in her Chinese characters?
$14.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
5 W × 8.5 H × .75 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889229181
| Rights: WORLD
An existential thriller that philosophically explores the purity of love. Russian-doll narrative, with self-referential loops and reflections on the literary medium.
$19.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
6 W × 9 H × 0.41 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772012477
| Rights: WORLD
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
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1.25 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772011241
| Rights: WORLD
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
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889222335
| Rights: WORLD