A Circle on the Surface
It’s 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets. They have hopes of a happy life together?though they have… Read More
Literary
All the Things We Leave Behind
Shortlisted for the New Brunswick Book Award for FictionA novel of absence and adolescence by the author of the award-winning The Town That… Read More
Americans Are Coming
An invasion? For teenagers Dryfly Ramsey and Shadrack Nash, poor and ignorant in the world’s terms but rich in the lore of the magical Miramichi, the annual influx of American… Read More
Angel’s Jig
Long-shortlisted, 2017 ReLit AwardsFacing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent… Read More
Because of Nothing at All
Near the Kenya-Sudan border, a team of international health program evaluators are abducted and force marched under a desert moon. Their pasts and presents — and those of their abductors… Read More
Blaze Island
A Globe and Mail Top 100 SelectionHamilton Reads 2021 SelectionA Writers’ Trust of Canada Best Book of the YearA 49th Shelf… Read More
Bleeding Light
A howl into the void, a ghost story, and a bit of a metaphysical hellride. A misanthropic ghostwriter roams an island off the Kenyan coast. An Arizona teenager awaits the… Read More
Brennen Siding Trilogy
The complete Brennen Siding Trilogy is now available in a single volume. Brennen Siding, a hamlet on a small tributary of the famous Miramichi River, is home to an unforgettable… Read More
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
In this bittersweet novel inspired by the life of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis, master storyteller Carol Bruneau gives voice to the artist, allowing her to speak from beyond the grave, freed from the stigmas of… Read More
Catch My Drift
An Atlantic Books Today Editor’s PickLorna always wanted to stand out, but her career as a competitive swimmer was cut short by a knee injury…. Read More
Chasing Freedom
Young Adult Historical Fiction A story of the struggle of Black Loyalists and their arrival in Nova Scotia. <a href=”/files/Chasing Freedom Teachers… Read More
Constant Nobody
Winner, Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardLonglisted, Newfoundland and Labrador Fiction Award and Miramichi Reader’s “The Very Best!” Book Awards… Read More
Cricket in a Fist
One night, Agatha Winter’s phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It’s the anniversary of their… Read More
Dance the Rocks Ashore
Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. This collection of short stories, Dance the Rocks Ashore, is certainly choice Choyce. Dance the Rocks… Read More
Daughters of Silence
Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family.Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie,… Read More
Day for Night
Set in London against a backdrop of growing authoritarianism and anxiety, a story of cinema and desire, the mysteries of marriage and creativity, and the often-violent returns and reversals of… Read More
Death and Life of Strother Purcell
The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy.In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother Purcell disappears into a winter storm… Read More
Douglas Notebooks
An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013Romain was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live… Read More
