Westerns
Death and Life of Strother Purcell
By Ian Weir
The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy.
In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother Purcell disappears into a winter storm in the mountains of British Columbia, while hunting down his outlawed half-brother. Sixteen years later, ... Read more
Like Rum-Drunk Angels
By Tyler Enfield
One of CBC Day 6 "books to gift this season"
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Francis Blackstone is a fourteen-year-old gunslinger with a heart of gold.
He’s fallen for the mayor’s daughter and resolves to make his mark, and his fortune, to ... Read more
Quivering Land
By Roewan Crowe
Illustrated by Paul Robles
Roewan Crowe's compelling and haunting literary debut, Quivering Land, is a rather queer Western, engaging with poetics and politics to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization in the West.
Written in a sparse style, this lonely, sometimes brutal book invites the ... Read more