Scotiabank Giller Prize
Hardcover | 256 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
ISBN: 978-0-307-35944-5 (0-307-35944-1)
September 18, 2012 | $29.95
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A bold and captivating new novel of ancient Greece, from the celebrated, award-winning author of The Golden Mean.
Pythias is her father's daughter, with eyes his exact shade of unlovely, intelligent grey. A slave to his own curiosity and intellect, Aristotle has never been able to resist wit in another--even in a...
Hardcover | 288 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-67090-6 (0-385-67090-7)
August 14, 2012 | $25.00
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Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery, and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But, also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading and his only knowledge of the world beyond the bakery door comes from his own imagination. Just a...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Literary
ISBN: 978-0-307-35988-9 (0-307-35988-3)
July 24, 2012 | $22.95
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From award-winning writer Billie Livingston, an unsparing novel of loyalty and survival that is fierce, sharp and funny even when it's breaking your heart.
The child of 2 con artists, 16-year-old Sammie Bell always prided herself on knowing the score. But now she finds herself backed into a corner. After a hustle...
Trade Paperback | 312 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-6898-0 (0-7710-6898-0)
May 29, 2012 | $22.99
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Combining a pitch-perfect, whip-smart dissection of contemporary urban life with a fresh and perceptive examination of our individual and collective ambivalence towards parenthood, Katrina Onstad's Everbody Has Everything balances tragedy and comedy with verve and flair, and is destined to be one of Canada's most talked-about novels of 2012.
What happens when...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary
ISBN: 978-0-7710-8649-6 (0-7710-8649-0)
May 1, 2012 | $16.99
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A highly acclaimed national bestseller, Sanctuary Line is a riveting story of family legacies, love, betrayal and loss by award-winning author, Jane Urquhart.
Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past, in Ireland and Ontario...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39945-8 (0-307-39945-1)
April 10, 2012 | $19.95
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NOMINEE 2011 – Scotiabank Giller Prize
Touch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mother’s death.
Sawgamet was founded by Stephen’s grandfather Jeannot, when he heard a voice in the woods calling his name...
Hardcover | 160 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35970-4 (0-307-35970-0)
January 17, 2012 | $25.00
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A runaway bestseller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world, Kim Thúy's Governor General's Literary Award-winning Ru is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.
Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a...
Hardcover | 544 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-385-66891-0 (0-385-66891-0)
September 27, 2011 | $32.95
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Here is the eagerly anticipated new novel from a brilliant writer whose last book, Good to a Fault, was shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for Canada and the Caribbean.
The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First...
Hardcover | 480 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
ISBN: 978-0-7710-8740-0 (0-7710-8740-3)
September 13, 2011 | $32.99
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Multi-award-winning author Guy Vanderhaeghe's eagerly awaited new novel is a dazzling follow up to his bestselling The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing (a Canada Reads winner!).
A Good Man culminates what could be thought of as a trilogy of books set in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American West, and it...
Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary
ISBN: 978-0-7710-6864-5 (0-7710-6864-6)
August 30, 2011 | $32.00
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From Michael Ondaatje: an electrifying new novel, by turns thrilling and deeply moving -- one of his most vividly rendered and compelling works of fiction to date.
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly "Cat's Table" with...
Hardcover | 320 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Literary
ISBN: 978-0-307-39989-2 (0-307-39989-3)
August 9, 2011 | $32.00
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Beloved author Wayne Johnston returns to the territory of his #1 national bestseller The Colony of Unrequited Dreams with this sweeping tale of ambition, remorse and hope.
A World Elsewhere has all the hallmarks of Wayne Johnston's most beloved and acclaimed novels: outsiders yearning for acceptance, dreams that threaten to overpower their...
eBook | 384 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37510-0 (0-307-37510-2)
July 27, 2011 | $13.99
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Growing up in a prominent lumber family in the Miramichi, brothers Will and Owen Jameson know little of the world beyond their town and the great men who work the forest, including their father. But as young men, the boys couldn’t be more different — where seventeen-year-old Will is headstrong and...
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37381-6 (0-307-37381-9)
July 27, 2011 | $13.99
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Mercy Among the Children received effusive praise from the critics, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award and won the Giller Prize. It was named one of 2000’s best books, became a national bestseller in hardcover for months, and would be published in the US and UK. It is seen, however...
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37542-1 (0-307-37542-0)
July 27, 2011 | $14.99
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Wayne Johnston’s breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada and was a national bestseller. His American editor said he hadn’t found such an exciting author since he...
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36839-3 (0-307-36839-4)
July 27, 2011 | $12.99
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From the author of What the Body Remembers, an extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan (code name “Madeleine”), who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasion of France.
When Noor Khan’s father, a teacher of mystical Sufism, dies, Noor...
