<p><strong>hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. </strong></p> <p><em >Hard Ticket</em> showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by […]
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<p>Felix walks alone through a decaying world until he is challenged to remember his past and build his future — an anti-colonial western exploring trauma, memory, and healing.</p>
The year is 1874. Fortune is now Deputy Marshall in Banjo Flats, Dakota Territory. The circus is in town and a gypsy fortune teller warns her that a stranger is […]
<b>Beloved and bestselling Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe’s novels are now available in bright and bold, smaller format editions.</b>
<p><strong><em>One house, one hundred years — Here is a collection of interconnected short stories that bend time with a complex and varied cast of characters passing through a single mansion […]
<p>In a St. John’s hospital in 1945, Elsa Evans keeps a furtive vigil over the deathbed of Abram Kean, the renowned sealing captain. Remembering her first husband and her two brothers killed in the trenches thirty years before, and another young friend, Noah, frozen on the ice during the sealing disaster of 1914, Elsa contemplates a hideous revenge. The shock of her own bitterness forces her to retrace part of her life which is interwoven with those of her former employers, Simon and Sarah Jenson. </p>
<p>On the morning of July 1916, officer Lt. Simon Jenson, severely shell-shocked and demoralized after a year and a half in the trenches, fails in leadership, hanging behind his men as they march through into no-man’s-land. When a figure emerges from the drifting smoke, he thrusts the blade of his bayonet forward not into the enemy but into the body of Charles Baxter, a comrade and the brother of his fiancée, Sarah. Surviving against the odds, and with his battlefield actions misinterpreted, Simon is feted as a hero. But when Simon returns from the war, Sarah finds him emotionally fragile and prone to violent rages- not even their young daughter Lucy can cheer him. Worse, their lives are soon overtaken by the shadow of blackmail, and Sarah and Elsa, Lucy’s governess, are forced to reconsider everything they once believed about loyalty, valour, and responsibility.</p>
<b>Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, Finalist • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Canadian Books • One of the CBC’s Canadian Fiction Books to Read in Fall 2024<br><ol> </ol><i>Women Talking</i> […]
<p>High Water Mark is an anthology of short fiction from some of the finest writers of Atlantic Canada over the last forty years. Included are writers from various communities throughout […]
<p><b>Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019<br>Long-Shortlisted, 2019 Relit Award (Short Story Category)</b></p><p>Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in spades, and most of […]
<p><b>Beloved and bestselling Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe’s novels are now available in bright and bold, smaller-format editions.</b></p> <p>Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in […]
<p><b>Co-Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction</b></p><p>Patricia Robertson’s new collection of short fiction, <i>Hour of the Crab</i>, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original vision, intriguing […]
When Luba Kassim reluctantly returns home to Northern Ontario, the strained relationship with her traditional Ukrainian mother only heightens her feelings of alienation and isolation. A family crisis reunites her extended family and reignites old rivalries and the pain of long-held family secrets. Slowly, Luba begins piecing together her family’s unspoken past, starting in the 1930s in Ukraine, followed by emigration to England and settlement in Canada. In the process, she uncovers some startling truths about her own identity, and learns that she and her mother have much more in common than she thinks.
