Thistledown Press imprint: 96 books

by Joan Givner
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014

It was supposed to be a homecoming and reunion, but when Anne Tennyson Miller (Tenn to her friends and family) returns to Driftwood Bay with her new friend Una, they find a ghost town. Something has gone terribly wrong in the world. The sea is rising fast, and everyone — almost everyone — has...
by Paulette Dubé
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

In a temporal arc from 1946 through to 2002 the Morasse family from Autant, Alberta had an intimate relationship with life, God, bees, and honey. Autant is a story with big questions such as how to determine the balance of power between siblings, how to make an excellent mead, how to distinguish between...
by Dianne Linden
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Part comedy, part mystery, part allegory, On Fire is narrated alternately by two characters: Matti Iverly, a fourteen-year-old girl with Tourette Syndrome. In Matti’s case, her tics are primarily vocal. As she confides early in the book, “At school they called me Tourette’s Girl, like I came...
by Sandy Marie Bonny
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Historian Tanis and high school teacher Neil just purchased their dream home on Saskatoon’s west side: a fixer-upper with plenty of character and an abundance of history to uncover. The house, however, also comes with a crumbling ruin of a garage tagged with gang symbols, a basement filled with...
by Bill Stenson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

In the 1950s Arthur Lemmons, after the death of his wife, moves himself and his daughter from Belgium to the Cowichan Valley of BC to begin a new life. Although limited in his skills, his ability to repair clocks serves him well — a skill that he will teach his daughter Hanne. Trying his best in...
by Audrey Whitson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

At the heart of every story in Audrey Whitson’s collection is a character seeking personal purpose amongst the deep mysteries of self, and a wholeness amid the fractious nature of life. Whitson’s evocative narration guides us effortlessly through these often turbulent journeys, seamlessly taking...

Sound Off

a book of jazz

by Stephen Bett
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Stephen Bett's 12th book, Sound Off: a book of jazz, is loosely, a "serial" poem, a book of 76 linked poems, each responding (himself as a jazz fan) to the work of 76 very current jazz musicians. These "jazzers", as he calls them, are not the old tried & true names we all know—they...

Rank 6

Firestorm

by Barry McDivitt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

The terror of fire is known to all but when fire erupts into its most terrifying form, Rank 6, mayhem and death are often not far behind. So the question is: Why would someone willingly approach an inferno that swirls with fireballs and whirls with temperatures that can reach 1000 degrees Celsius?...
by Wendy MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

This novel interweaves Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo’s fifteenth-century viewpoint with the twenty-first-century reality of two young Canadian students: Agnes Vane, an art history major fascinated by di Cosimo’s multi-layered imagery, and Peter (Pinto) Dervaig, a student of philosophy passionate...
by Judy McCrosky
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

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 preoccupation with watching people die as a source of entertainment....
by Audrey Whitson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

At the heart of every story in Audrey Whitson’s collection is a character seeking personal purpose amongst the deep mysteries of self, and a wholeness amid the fractious nature of life. Whitson’s evocative narration guides us effortlessly through these often turbulent journeys, seamlessly taking...
by Ken Rivard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

Motherwild is an unvarnished journey of the struggle to survive on a violent and dangerous yet loving and alive Montreal working-class street. Set over the course of a year beginning in December 1959, Joey Cantell faces the personal confusion of growing up while attempting to navigate a difficult...
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