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

Griffintown

By Marie Hélène Poitras
Translated by Sheila Fischman

Loaded with grit, heart, murder, and desire, Griffintown harnesses the style of a Spaghetti Western to tell the exhilarating story of the calèche drivers of Old Montreal, the city’s urban cowboys. It s a novel ulike any other — a story of sorrow and renewal, of unexpected ... Read more

Like Rum-Drunk Angels

By Tyler Enfield

Winner, Spur Award for Best Traditional Novel and Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
Long-listed, 2021 Leacock Award for Humour

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 ... Read more

One Good and Deadly Deed

By Dudley Lynch

Bodies are piling up in Flagler. For fans of Bones and Preacher comes a sharp supernatural police procedural set in the heart of Texas.

It was not Luke McWhorter’s plan to become a law enforcement officer when he left for Yale Divinity School. But three generations of his ... 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