When jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s were gettin’ down, when things were really cookin’ they’d say, Yeah, make it tight like that. It meant things were good, as good as they could get. It’s a good thing in fiction, too. The stories...
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- Author: Christy, JimSummary:
- Author: Harper, JennicaSummary:
What It Feels Like for a Girl is a series of poems following the intense friendship between two teenagers as they explore pop icons, pornography, and the big, strange world of sex. They soon learn just how complicated sexuality is--and...
- Author: Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
10 Women is a new collection of short fiction from one of Canada’s preeminent writers. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom the author may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a meaningful...
- Author: Barnholden, Michael DornSummary:
“Reading the Riot Act” is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon, meaning the action taken by authority figures when they perceive that their “charges” are getting out of hand. The act itself is a seldom-used piece of legislation...
- Author: Burnham, ClintSummary:
Drinkin’ rye and water with Grandma. Guns in False Creek. Frat boy homies from the North Delta ghetto. Samuel L. Jackson. Phantom Lord & Metallica. A kid who’s got the hots for his mom… Hunh? That’s right. It’s all here in this...
- Author: Arcan, NellySummary:
Burqa of Skin is a dense collection of writings from Nelly Arcan, channelling harrowing disenchantment and indignation. From her very first novel, Putain (Seuil, 2001), Arcan shook the literary landscape with her flamboyant lyricism and...
- Author: McWhirter, TeresaSummary:
Longlisted for the ReLit Award Editor's Pick, Vancouver Sun.
Dirtbags is a novel about reckoning–with one's past, one's choices, and one's expectations for the future. Spider is a scrappy kid growing up in rural B.C., and when a...
- Author: Tidler, CharlesSummary:
Longlisted for the ReLit Award (2006).
Going to New Orleans is the story of Lewis King, a jazz trumpet player who lands a gig in the Big Easy. King is a genius on cornet, but his private life is emotionally, morally, and...
- Author: Farrell, JennSummary:
Longlisted for a ReLit Award (2007). Alcuin Society Citation for Excellence in Design.
The stories in Sugar Bush & Other Stories deal with gender relations, love, and sex in a frank way. Most of the pieces feature female...
- Author: Burgess, TonySummary:
Winner, 2011 ReLit Award. From the author of Pontypool Changes Everything,
Ravenna Gets is a new collection of “wheeled” stories that continue the author’s exploration of “apocalypse fiction.” In a single convulsion of homicide,...
- Author: Tidler, CharlesSummary:
Four disparate people confront each other--their memory and their responsibility--at the emergency room of a hospital when brought together by the crisis of a teenager suffering a psychiatric episode. Tortoise Boy is a “chamber play,”...
- Author: Bowman, BonnieSummary:
Winner, 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest (1999). Winner, Inaugural ReLit Award (2001).
Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, Skin is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun...
- Author: Leggat, AlexandraSummary:
The Incomparables is the debut novel from the Trillium nominated author of Animal. Lydia Templar is obsessed with fabric, the texture and weight of cloth. Through fabrics, curtains, costumes, she expresses herself in a way she feels...
- Author: Bolen, Dennis E.Summary:
Kaspoit! puts speculative illustration to the most profuse series of crimes ever to take place on Canadian soil. Set in the lower mainland of Vancouver, the time is now—criminals are brazen, cops are cynical—and no one is trying to...
- Author: Campbell, BartSummary:
Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes). Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize. Long listed for CBC Canada Reads 2015.
The Door Is Open is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-...
- Author: West, MartinSummary:
Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards).
The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A teenage boy spends a summer with...
- Author: Jarman, Mark AnthonySummary:
Finalist, ReLit Award. Amazon.ca's 50 Essential Canadian Books selection.
First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, Salvage King, Ya! is a novel firmly rooted in Canada’s favourite national pastime—hockey. Critics have...
- Author: Lapointe, AnnetteSummary:
Finalist, Giller Prize. Winner of 2 Saskatchewan Book Awards (Best First Book; City of Saskatoon Book Award). Finalist, Saskatchewan Book Award (Book of the Year). Winner, Canadian Authors’ Association-BookTV Emerging Writer Award....
- Author: Bowman, BonnieSummary:
Best of 2010 Pick, Uptown Magazine.
Meet Walter Finch, an ungainly kid who survives his cloying suburban childhood to make it only as far as the local mall, where he rises through the ranks to become manager of a shoe store....
- Author: Bateman, JackieSummary:
Winner, Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University’s First Book Competition.
Nondescript Rambunctious is a genre-busting thriller with a beating, human heart. More than a simple story of a killer and his victims, the novel takes...