The stories in Night Watch, a new collection from Susan Zettell, delve deep into dark waters. Zettell looks unflinchingly at life's bountiful sorrows: the loss felt by abandoned children, the sudden intrusion of sickness or death,...
Short stories, Canadian
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Author:Zettell, SusanSummary: -
Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:As a window into the magic and medicine of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious and heartbreaking. A teenaged boy confesses to a vicious assault on a cross-dressing classmate; Lance...
- Author:Burton, LevarSummary:
"There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns," proclaimed Octavia E. Butler.New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories...
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Author:Fagan, CarySummary:Cary Fagan began his career writing short stories before moving on to novels as well as numerous books for children. Yet he has never given up his love for the story form. Here are ten new stories whose characters are funny, serious,...
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Author:Nawaz, SaleemaSummary:A prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists. A sister goes missing, mailing a trail of encoded postcards from destinations across the globe. The daughters of a Montreal bagel-shop owner navigate the tricky terrain of...
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Author:Nawaz, SaleemaSummary:A prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists. A sister goes missing, mailing a trail of encoded postcards from destinations across the globe. The daughters of a Montreal bagel-shop owner navigate the tricky terrain of...
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:In these ten dazzling interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage,...
- Author:Collins, GerardSummary:
Welcome to Darwin, Newfoundland, a small town with big secrets. On the surface, nothing ever changes and everyone is content. But the truth is as restless, cold, and mutable as the ocean in these sixteen linked short stories. In Darwin...
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Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:The characters of Moccasin Square Gardens inhabit Denendeh, the land of the people north of the sixtieth parallel. These stories are filled with in-laws, outlaws and common-laws. Get ready for illegal wrestling moves ("The Camel Clutch...
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A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer)...
- Author:Coady, Lynn, McKay, Leo, Jr.Summary:
The A List edition of Leo McKay’s superb collection. Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Like This takes you inside small-town Nova Scotia to expose the troubles that lie at its heart. Set in a fictional town called Albion...
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Author:MacLeod, AlexanderSummary:Two runners race a cargo train through the darkness of a rat-infested tunnel beneath the Detroit River. A drugstore bicycle courier crosses a forbidden threshold in an attempt to save a life and a young swimmer conquers her fear of...
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Author:McCrosky, JudySummary:The collective force of McCrosky’s Lifting Weights is a raw adventure into the unknown. In "Death TV" you meet a butterfly collector whose explorations into violent mayhem in television programming draws out our society’s...
- Author:Eaton, ChrisSummary:
“Beautifully written…” – Jonathan Lethem
“One of the country’s best new writers.” – Eye Weekly
Chris Eaton’s fictions read like intellectual fisticuffs: bruising but with more than a touch of moustache wax....
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Author:Holmström, BrittSummary:The intimate portraits in Britt Holmström’s first collection of short fiction at times have a strong journalistic sense while at other times evoke the intimacy of a diary. The stories employ underlying humour — particularly irony,...
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Author:Shields, Carol, Fournier Lévêque, ÉliseSummary:Le Carnaval du quotidien, version française de Dressing up for the Carnival, est le troisième et dernier recueil de nouvelles de Carol Shields. Les nouvelles de Shields dévoilent le côté ludique et l'imagination féconde de cette...
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Author:Saidullah, Ahmad, Geoffroy-Skuce, Annick, Charron, Marc, Lavoie, CarolineSummary:Un prétendu éditeur découvre un mystérieux coffre rempli de manuscrits. C'est là le prétexte pour retracer les pas de personnages associés à la famille Ashfaq, issue de la bourgeoisie musulmane d'une ville indienne dévastée par les...
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Author:Miller, K. D.Summary:Linked short stories based on the paintings of Alex Colville and haunted by supernatural elements.
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Author:Forrie, AllanSummary:In a literary collection unlike any other, Thistledown Press brings together short fiction by women and about women. Readers interested in women’s perspectives will be drawn in by unique takes on the female experience provided in these...
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Author:Jarman, Mark AnthonySummary:Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. One of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony Jarman returns with a book of moving and often...
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