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A spellbinding, profound novel from one of Canada's most accomplished poets, Between Mountains sets a heart-rending love story amidst the aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.Daniel, a Canadian journalist, has been living in Bosnia for ten years, long after most correspondents have moved on to other global "hotspots.” On a visit to Paris he meets Lili, a Serbian-Albanian interpreter at The Hague, entrusted with hearing and telling the sto...

Born in Liverpool, Maggie Helwig grew up in London and Kingston, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto. A writer and poet, she has worked as a music journalist, and an international human rights advocate, and travelled in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and elsewhere in Europe, as well as South America. She is married with one daughter.

With generous selections from earlier, critically acclaimed full-length collections like "Talking Prophet Blues" and "Eating Glass, " as well as work from landmark underground chapbooks like "Because the Gunman" and "Graffiti for JJ Harper, " this collection presents, for the first time, the range and scope of Maggie Helwig's unique and inspiring poetry. Spanning two decades, and including new and never-before collected material, "One Building...

A gripping political thriller that mixes suspense and moral seriousness in ways reminiscent of both Michael Ondaatje and Graham Greene, this novel about disappearance and surveillance contrasts involuntary and overtly political tragedies with the dirty little secrets of our big cities, the deliberate invisibility of society's dangerous fringe and the emotional unavailability of scarred and scared individuals.

A girl faints in the Toronto subway. Her friends are taken to the hospital with unexplained rashes, they complain about a funny smell in the subway. Swarms of police arrive, and then the hazmat team. Panic ripples through the city, and words like poisoning and terrorism become airborne.

In the fifteenth century, a tide of witch-hunts swept through Germany with unparalleled ferocity, its victims: women. Out of this dark history, Walking Through Fire recreates the urgency of a hopeless situation and its inevitable conclusion.