Fiction
There Has to Be a Knife
For readers of Brother by David Chariandy and Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez, Adnan Khan's blistering debut novel investigates themes of race, class, masculinity and contemporary relationships.
Omar ...
Shut Up You're Pretty
In Tea Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects ...
The Walking Boy
The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi ...
Synchro Boy
Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. ...
Sketchtasy
Lambda Literary Award finalist
Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils ...
The Tiger Flu
In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, ...
Jonny Appleseed
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the Scotiabank ...
Little Fish
WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old ...
Property Values
The worlds of urban gentrification, overpriced real estate, and gang violence collide in this wry and sardonic crime novel by author and comedian Charles Demers (Vancouver Special, The Horrors).
As a ...
Sodom Road Exit
Lambda Literary Award finalist; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
It's the summer of 1990, and Crystal Beach in Ontario has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village ...