Fiction Fan: Canadian
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Canada is known around the world for our top-notch fiction writers. Check out the new and latest offerings from your home-grown favourites:

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The Year of the Flood
Written by Margaret Atwood

Hardcover | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-0844-3 (0-7710-0844-9)

September 8, 2009 | $32.99



The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood is a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale.

Adam One, the kindly leader of God’s Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion — has long...


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Generation A
Written by Douglas Coupland

Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35772-4 (0-307-35772-4)

September 1, 2009 | $32.95



“Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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The Wife's Tale
Written by Lori Lansens

Hardcover | 384 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39838-3 (0-307-39838-2)

August 18, 2009 | $29.95



A brilliant new novel — deeply humane and entirely convincing — from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.

In Lori Lansens’ Leaford, Ontario — home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the...

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Too Much Happiness
Written by Alice Munro

Hardcover | 320 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction
978-0-7710-6529-3 (0-7710-6529-9)

August 25, 2009 | $32.99



An international literary event: Ten new stories from a beloved and award-winning author.

This stunning collection of new stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C....

Also available as an eBook.

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Galore
Written by Michael Crummey

Hardcover | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66314-4 (0-385-66314-5)

August 11, 2009 | $32.95



Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date.

An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that...

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Frostbitten
Written by Kelley Armstrong

Hardcover | 352 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Fantasy - Contemporary; Fiction - Suspense
978-0-679-31487-5 (0-679-31487-3)

September 29, 2009 | $32.00



New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns with the tenth installment of the Women of the Otherworld series.

The Alaskan wilderness is a harsh landscape in the best of conditions, but with a pack of rogue werewolves on the loose, it’s downright deadly.

Elena Michaels, the Pack’s chief enforcer, knows all...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Fear The Worst
Written by Linwood Barclay

Hardcover | 416 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction - Suspense
978-0-385-66802-6 (0-385-66802-3)

August 11, 2009 | $29.95



Seventeen-year-old Sydney Blake’s summer is shaping up to be typical for a teenager: she’s spending it with her father, and she has landed a part-time job at a local hotel. One night, Syd fails to come home from her shift, and her father Tim is a bit alarmed. However, that alarm...

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The Last Woman
Written by John Bemrose

Hardcover | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-1114-6 (0-7710-1114-8)

September 29, 2009 | $32.99



In the heart of cottage country in Ontario, bordering on a native reservation, Ann and Richard are confronted with the abrupt reappearance after ten years of a local man, Billy. His presence once again in their lives brings back powerful memories and rekindles old conflicts, love, and a betrayal, as each...

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The Favourite Game & Beautiful Losers
Written by Leonard Cohen

Hardcover | 520 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-2191-6 (0-7710-2191-7)

September 22, 2009 | $29.99



Leonard Cohen’s two classic novels now available together in this collector’s edition.

This beautifully designed collector’s hardcover edition brings together Leonard Cohen’s acclaimed novels in a single volume. Published originally in 1963 and 1966, these novels have had a recent resurgence of popularity and sales around the world.

In his unforgettable debut...

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The Golden Mean
Written by Annabel Lyon

Hardcover | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35620-8 (0-307-35620-5)

August 11, 2009 | $32.95



On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early illness has left one son with the intellect...

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The Bishop's Man
Written by Linden MacIntyre

Hardcover | 416 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35706-9 (0-307-35706-6)

July 28, 2009 | $32.00



Something about the boat, perhaps its name, and the posture of that boy caused me to defer my anxieties for the moment. It was so rare to see someone that age stationary, somber. I was more accustomed to a rowdy adolescent enthusiasm. This young man, I realized, was exceptional only because...

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Waiting for Columbus
Written by Thomas Trofimuk

Hardcover | 408 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-8546-8 (0-7710-8546-X)

August 25, 2009 | $32.99



Highly acclaimed Canadian novelist Thomas Trofimuk bursts onto the international literary stage with this dazzling novel, rich with all the emotional intensity of The English Patient.

In a Spanish mental institution in 2004, a man who believes he is Christopher Columbus begins to tell his story. Nurse Consuela listens, hoping to discover...

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8 X 10
Written by Michael Turner

Hardcover | 176 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66593-3 (0-385-66593-8)

September 29, 2009 | $27.95



Shockingly original and intensely intelligent, 8 × 10 is a series of snapshots of a world torn apart by war and migration.

Fearless in form, Michael Turner’s 8 × 10 casts aside traditional narrative structure and characterization to delve deeper into the issues gnawing at today’s global society. Through a sequence of...

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