Gone to Hell

By Randall Radic

Theft, extortion, embezzlement, mafia ties, drunk driving and even murder ? these are the true stories of priests gone bad. It’s a dark and windy Easter in Toledo, Ohio when Sister Margaret is found murdered in the chapel, the victim of a Satanic ritual. Twenty years later ... Read more

Hell's Flames to Heaven's Gate

By Jack Fitzgerald

How did a Catholic bishop stop the riot of 1861? Which British monarch physically assaulted a priest in St. John’s? What ancient relics are kept at the Basilica? Did a British princess help build Newfoundland’s greatest Catholic church?

By mining Newfoundland’s history ... Read more

I Am Herod

By Richard Kelly Kemick

Shortlisted, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction

On a whim, armchair-atheist Richard Kelly Kemick joins the 100-plus cast of The Canadian Badlands Passion Play, North America's largest production of its kind and one of the main tourist attractions in Alberta. By the time closing ... Read more

The Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia

By Connie Braun

The Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia: A Mennonite Memoir invites the reader to embark on a journey that traces the paths of ancestral memory over the steppes of the Russian empire to the valleys of Canada’s Fraser River. Connie Braun’s narrative continues where Sandra Birdsell’s ... Read more

Tree of Life, The

By Sarah Klassen

In poems that contemplate human experience, Sarah Klassen charts the paths we travel in search of the tree of life. This quest for the nexus of spiritual fulfilment takes readers from the steps of ruined cities to perilous migrations, school playgrounds, and into dream. It laments ... Read more

Visible World, The

By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

In language that is direct as the noon-day sun Toronto's Poet Laureate, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco returns to the wilderness terrain of his Trillium nominated The Dark Time of Angels to ask difficult questions of an acutely examined life. The Visible World is a metaphysical journey ... Read more