Governor General's Literary Awards - Fiction
Waiting for Joe
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35917-9 (0-307-35917-4)
September 13, 2011 | $21.00
After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35917-9 (0-307-35917-4)
September 13, 2011 | $21.00
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After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Mercy Among the Children
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37381-6 (0-307-37381-9)
July 27, 2011 | $22.00
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...
Written by David Adams Richards
eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37381-6 (0-307-37381-9)
July 27, 2011 | $22.00
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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...
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The Navigator of New York
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37542-1 (0-307-37542-0)
July 27, 2011 | $15.95
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...
Written by Wayne Johnston
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37542-1 (0-307-37542-0)
July 27, 2011 | $15.95
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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...
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trade paperback.
Runaway
eBook | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
ISBN: 978-1-55199-397-3 (1-55199-397-X)
June 22, 2011 | $15.95
“Runaway” is the first story in this stunning collection, sure to be a runaway success. All of the eight stories here are new, published in book form for the first time. Two of the eight have never appeared anywhere, so this will be a special feast for the millions of Munro...
Written by Alice Munro
eBook | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
ISBN: 978-1-55199-397-3 (1-55199-397-X)
June 22, 2011 | $15.95
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“Runaway” is the first story in this stunning collection, sure to be a runaway success. All of the eight stories here are new, published in book form for the first time. Two of the eight have never appeared anywhere, so this will be a special feast for the millions of Munro...
A Discovery Of Strangers
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36714-3 (0-307-36714-2)
June 1, 2011 | $21.00
A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encounter the...
Written by Rudy Wiebe
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36714-3 (0-307-36714-2)
June 1, 2011 | $21.00
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A Discovery of Strangers is a story--based on true events--of love and innocence, murder, greed and passion set within the terrifying, fragile Arctic landscape. In 1820, John Franklin's small group of British officers and Canadian voyageurs, on their first expedition to search for a route through the incomprehensible North, encounter the...
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trade paperback.
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39806-2 (0-307-39806-4)
December 7, 2010 | $22.00
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s...
Written by Drew Hayden Taylor
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-39806-2 (0-307-39806-4)
December 7, 2010 | $22.00
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A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s...
Elizabeth and After
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36877-5 (0-307-36877-7)
December 3, 2010 | $18.95
Two love stories, one past, one present, mirror each other in this highly acclaimed story of ambition, sex, memory and marriage. Set in small-town Ontario -- vintage Matt Cohen territory -- Elizabeth and After is rich in insights about human foibles and aspirations, and an unforgettable portrait of a place and...
Written by Matt Cohen
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36877-5 (0-307-36877-7)
December 3, 2010 | $18.95
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Two love stories, one past, one present, mirror each other in this highly acclaimed story of ambition, sex, memory and marriage. Set in small-town Ontario -- vintage Matt Cohen territory -- Elizabeth and After is rich in insights about human foibles and aspirations, and an unforgettable portrait of a place and...
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trade paperback.
Last Seen
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36876-8 (0-307-36876-9)
December 3, 2010 | $17.95
Written by Matt Cohen
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36876-8 (0-307-36876-9)
December 3, 2010 | $17.95
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The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36875-1 (0-307-36875-0)
December 3, 2010 | $17.95
The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone, first published in 1979, is one of Matt Cohen's four novels that came to be known as the Salem quartet--stories set in the fictional town of Salem in eastern Ontario, somewhere north of Kingston in the rugged farmland and forest of the Canadian Shield...
Written by Matt Cohen
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36875-1 (0-307-36875-0)
December 3, 2010 | $17.95
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The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone, first published in 1979, is one of Matt Cohen's four novels that came to be known as the Salem quartet--stories set in the fictional town of Salem in eastern Ontario, somewhere north of Kingston in the rugged farmland and forest of the Canadian Shield...
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trade paperback.
Anil's Ghost
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37589-6 (0-307-37589-7)
October 8, 2010 | $15.00
Following the phenomenal success of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, expectations were almost insurmountable. The internationally acclaimed #1 bestseller had made Ondaatje the first Canadian novelist ever to win the Booker. Four years later, in 1996, a motion picture based on the book brought the story to...
Written by Michael Ondaatje
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-37589-6 (0-307-37589-7)
October 8, 2010 | $15.00
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Following the phenomenal success of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, expectations were almost insurmountable. The internationally acclaimed #1 bestseller had made Ondaatje the first Canadian novelist ever to win the Booker. Four years later, in 1996, a motion picture based on the book brought the story to...
Unless
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36589-7 (0-307-36589-1)
October 8, 2010 | $22.00
“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life...
Written by Carol Shields
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36589-7 (0-307-36589-1)
October 8, 2010 | $22.00
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“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life...
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Life Before Man
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-0885-6 (0-7710-0885-6)
October 5, 2010 | $21.00
Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices—after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-7710-0885-6 (0-7710-0885-6)
October 5, 2010 | $21.00
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Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices—after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive...
Waiting for Joe
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35916-2 (0-307-35916-6)
September 14, 2010 | $29.95
After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35916-2 (0-307-35916-6)
September 14, 2010 | $29.95
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After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Waiting for Joe
eBook | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35918-6 (0-307-35918-2)
September 14, 2010 | $29.95
After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
eBook | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-35918-6 (0-307-35918-2)
September 14, 2010 | $29.95
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After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Afterlife of George Cartwright
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
ISBN: 978-0-7710-9398-2 (0-7710-9398-5)
September 7, 2010 | $21.95
In this stunning and original novel, John Steffler has recreated a lost time and place, and has given life to an enigmatic figure from Canada’s 18th-century past. Described quietly by historians as “soldier, diarist, entrepreneur,” George Cartwright emerges in Steffler’s tale as a character of overwhelming appetite and ambition. Until this...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
ISBN: 978-0-7710-9398-2 (0-7710-9398-5)
September 7, 2010 | $21.95
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In this stunning and original novel, John Steffler has recreated a lost time and place, and has given life to an enigmatic figure from Canada’s 18th-century past. Described quietly by historians as “soldier, diarist, entrepreneur,” George Cartwright emerges in Steffler’s tale as a character of overwhelming appetite and ambition. Until this...
