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So here I am, mused Dan Fogarty to himself, in the place all along where I was meant to be with me travelling, surely, for a long time, done & all me efforts now concentrated on keeping on my kith & kin &, in the process, ensuring their good name never again, in my presence, is slighted.

The fourth installment in Roy Jacobsen's bestselling Barrøy Chronicles.After a long journey through Norway, Ingrid has returned to Barrøy, the island that bears her family name. The Second World War still casts its long shadow: former collaborators face cold shoulders, while others wish to leave the painful years in the past. When a boy arrives on the island, Ingrid assumes responsibility for him, and so he joins the Barrøy community, raised a...

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Windsor, Ontario: the City of Roses, the Automotive Capital of Canada, South Detroit. Whatever name you know it by, this is a city that has flourished and transformed over the years, growing and changing with its industrial nature. In Windsor: Then & Now, architectural specialist Andrew Foot partners with landscape photographer Ian Virtue to explore the life of this mid-sized, blue-collar town through photographs. By contrasting historic image...

The next title in a new series of short nonfiction books modeled after 18th century political pamphlets-compare with Penguin's Great Idea series, but instead of reprints, these are original essays, 20, 000 to 35, 000 words, by contemporary writers and thinkers about contemporary issues. The S21 titles respond specifically to the George Floyd protests and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On the Origin is longform investigative journalism ex...

This Seth-designed loader, prepacked with the 2021 Christmas Ghost Stories, is perfect for register display.

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2021.

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2021.

Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. Noone knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie. But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the neighbouring b...

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Contemporary resonance: Concerned with inherited trauma, the relationship between historical atrocity and contemporary understandings of culture, identity, and selfhood, historical and personal memory, justice and reconciliation. Joins contemporary discussions regarding the extent to which war crimes should be prosecuted, the nature and reliability of memory, the meaning and human face of evil, the inevitability of loss and the persistence of ...

When Prin's wife, dismayed by his indiscretion with an old flame, takes their four daughters to stay with family in the States, Prin finds himself living alone in the Toronto condominium newly built on the site of the college where he used to teach. Bitter about his solitude and filled with regret, struggling to find purpose in his faith and redeem himself to his family, he takes a dubious-sounding job in Terre-Haute, Indiana, and joins a grou...

The much-anticipated follow-up to From the Vault, Volume 1 draws on local archives to bring historic London, Ontario, to life. Welcome to 1950 in London, Ontario. The post-war boom is in full swing, fueled by jobs, babies, and the modern consumer. New buildings dot the landscape, marking the advent of suburbia and rise of the shopping mall. When the 401 cuts through town, London finds itself on the cultural map, bringing famous acts to town. T...

James Joyce's daughter Lucia spent thirty years of her life in an asylum. Alex Pheby imagines her life in narrative shards.

On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control. The inmates held the guards hostage for four intense days, making headlines around the world and drawing international attention to the dehumanizing realities of incarceration when several inmates appeared on camera and described the overcrowding, inadequate rehabilitation programs, harsh punishment, and extreme isolation they endured. As...

An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year . A Guardian Best Book of 2020 . Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize . Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries. I am eleven, a dark-haired child given to staring out window ... Her voice makes it 1773, a fine day in May, and puts English soldiers crouching in ambush, I add ditch-water to drench ...

The highly anticipated sequel to International Booker- and Dublin Impac-shortlisted The Unseen No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: Norway is under the Nazi boot. When the bodies from a bombed battleship begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid can't know that one will be alive, and warm enough to erase ...

A full-scale attack on corporate profiteering during the COVID-19 pandemic.