1.
Series:
Poguemahone
Paperback
Patrick McCabe
9781771964739
$27.95
FICTION
May 03, 2022
A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call girl. Young Una’s search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she’ll never get over. Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories...
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Series:
Try Not to Be Strange
The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
Paperback
Michael Hingston
9781771964159
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 13, 2022
On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming. Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, t...
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3.
Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series
Querelle of Roberval
Paperback
Kevin Lambert
9781771963541
$22.95
FICTION
Aug 02, 2022
Homage to Jean Genet’s antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge. As a millworkers’ strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers—but when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he ...
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4.
Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series
The Hollow Beast
Paperback
Christophe Bernard
9781771964586
$24.95
FICTION
Apr 04, 2023
Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about a slapshot. In 1911, in a hockey game in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Monti collapses with his head across the goal line, Victor Bradley, erstwhile referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts. Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls over three generations, one hundred years and dozens of alcohol-soaked tall tales, from treachery in northern gold-mining camps to the appearance of ...
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5.
Series: Field Notes
On Class
Paperback
Deborah Dundas
9781771964814
$14.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 02, 2023
Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do. Stories about poor people are rarely written by the poor—and when they are written they tend to fit into a hero narrative. Through hard work, smarts, and temerity, the hero pulls themselves up by their bootstraps in a narrative that simply provides an easy exception: l...
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6.
Series: ReSet
This Time, That Place
Selected Stories
Paperback
Clark Blaise
9781771964890
$26.95
FICTION
Oct 18, 2022
“Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.” —Quill & Quire With a foreword by Margaret Atwood and an introduction by John Metcalf, This Time, That Place draws together twenty-four indelible works by Clark Blaise, a master of the short forms.
7.
Series:
Shimmer
Paperback
Alex Pugsley
9781771964692
$22.95
FICTION
May 17, 2022
In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each other’s lives. Outside a 7-Eleven, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to do with their night, though the thought of the rest of their lives doesn’t seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon, two movie stars try to decide if the affair they’re having might mean they like each other. When Byron, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes, posts a ques...
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