What Is Written on the Tongue

By Anne Lazurko

For readers of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization

Released from Nazi forced labor as World War II ends, 20-year-old Sam is ... Read more

We, Jane

By Aimee Wall

Longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2021 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2021 Concordia University First Book Prize
Le Grand Prix du livre de Montreal: 2021 Jury Selection

A remarkable debut about intergenerational ... Read more

Dancing in the River

By George Lee

Growing up in a small, riverside town, Little Bright is thrusted into the political whirlwinds along with his family during China’s Cultural Revolution. When a reversal of the winds of reform blows through the land, however, he learns the once-forbidden tongue—English—which ... Read more

Letters From Johnny

By Wayne Ng

Winner of BEST CRIME NOVELLA at The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence 2022

Set in Toronto 1970, just as the FLQ crisis emerges to shake an innocent country, eleven year old Johnny Wong uncovers an underbelly to his tight, downtown neighbourhood. He shares a room with ... Read more

Junie

By Chelene Knight

Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood.

1930s, Hogan's Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located ... Read more

Who Has Seen the Wind

By W.O.Mitchell
Illustrated by William Kurelek
Foreword by Frances Itani

The Raw Light of Morning

By Shelly Kawaja

***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – WINNER***

The Raw Light of Morning is a powerful debut novel about women and children finding humour and love in the aftermath of domestic violence.  

Fourteen-year-old Laurel Long does something unimaginable. In a house at the back end of Woods ... Read more

Angel Wing Splash Pattern

By Richard Van Camp

With this special 20th Anniversary edition, Richard Van Camp re-releases his first bestselling collection of short stories. There is pain in these stories and there is loss. There is death, but there is also rebirth, and there is always the search from each of the narrators ... Read more

Hotline

By Dimitri Nasrallah

A 2023 Canada Reads Finalist

Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman's struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration.

It's 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal, leaving behind a civil ... Read more

The Loyal Daughter

By Nancy Lam

The Loyal Daughter is a novel in stories, told from the perspective of mother, daughter, and granddaughter and spans the 1940s to modern day. A young woman in a village in Communist China finds herself scrapping her way through the crowded streets of Hong Kong. She immigrates ... Read more