Fiction

Longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in unexpected ways as they search to create meaning in their lives.

A university ...

Maureen Jennings, the acclaimed author behind Murdoch Mysteries, brings her usual attention to historical detail in the Paradise Café Mysteries featuring Private Investigator Charlotte Frayne and set ...

“Some Unfinished Business is a powerful, moving, and page-turning examination of loyalty, betrayal, retribution and ultimately, love, written by an acclaimed author at the height of his powers.” — Gary Bar ...

Nominated for the 2023 Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada

November’s rain in Toronto 1936 has turned into December’s cold snap. Charlotte Frayne escapes being hit by a mud-splattered car ...

In one minute, delivering a not guilty verdict at the end of the trial for a disturbing murder of a child, Matthew Rice’s life begins to unravel. The very structures his life is built upon start to collapse. ...

Danah Calsely was only nine when her mother abandoned her. Years later, as a promising Sociology PhD candidate, Danah appears largely unaffected by this traumatic loss — until she finds a letter that s ...

Winner, Hamilton Book Award

Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award

Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award

Longlisted for Canada Reads 2023

A Globe and Mail Best Book

Cyril Rowntree migrates ...

This collection of stories charts the emotional lives of characters in the midst of private sorrows and triumphs. Each story, set in the cities and towns around the Great Lakes, reveals the author’s fierce l ...

“Cover Art by Vanessa Westermann has all the hallmarks of a great summer read.” — I’ve Read This

Charley Scott is thrilled to be running a summer pop-up gallery in cottage country. Returning to the lakeside ...

“Harrowing, hopeful, and informed by Ramayan's own experiences as a runaway to Edmonton, Mud Lilies is a hymn to the power of one young woman's defiant spark of life, a story of grit and wisdom set against ...