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A photo history of London from its settlement days to 1950 that's a must-read for local history buffs.

A retrospective of Robyn Sarah's body of poetic work, selected by the Governor General's Award-winning author herself.

A narrative walking tour through the five historical communities that make up the border town of Windsor, Ontario.

A new collection from noted feminist author and winner of the prestigious Journey Prize for short fiction.

Love letter, travel-memoir, manifesto-Bookshops is a diverting cultural history of bookstores as spaces of creative energy and social change.

A gripping portrait of contemporary urban Africa-by turns magic realist, deeply emotional, and savagely satirical.

In Montreal, a Bolivian refugee and Kurdish freedom-fighter fall in love in this experimental novel of identity, hybridity, and exile.

A lively coming-of-age novel that records the collision of small town life with the earth-shattering news headlines of 1979.

A feared cage fighter in Mixed Martial Arts, Daniel is closing in on greatness-until an injury derails his career. Out of work in his country hometown, Daniel slips into the underworld, moonlighting as muscle for a childhood-friend-turned-mid-level-gangster. While his wife works nights and his twelve-year-old daughter gets into scraps of her own, Daniel tries to escape and build a nobler life for his family-but he sinks deeper into a violent, ...

Maths, myths, Mars! Hard science meets happy metaphor in a debut that asks how astronomy continues to define our lives.

Culture-shocked Western doctors, nurses alienated from their villages, undersupplied hospitals, a 10% AIDS rate: how does African medical practice endure?

A vivacious memoir of life along the Detroit River, from the prize-winning reporter, novelist, and CBC broadcaster Paul Vasey.

A new collection from a noted feminist author and winner of the prestigious Journey Prize for short fiction.

Here are brilliantly contemporary poems in traditional forms, the work of a stunning new voice."--Charles Martin

Great escapes meet greater escapism: how the life of a displaced Jewish actor illuminates the 1963 Hollywood blockbuster.

Never has the short story seen so much long wind.

In All Saints, linked short stories animate the solitary lives of rectors, church ladies, and aging urban faithfuls.

It's Christmas in Wales during the Blitz, and an incident of childhood sexual abuse sparks a lifetime of self-recrimination.

Martin's death was singular and pre-9/11, before death became everybody's business.

Like Gaddis locked in a Montreal walk-up. Five squalid ex-pats, existentially wounded by Bush-era villainy, find themselves neighbors to Evil.