Exile Editions imprint: 78 books

The Crying Out

A Novel

by Diane Keating
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014

The Witherspoon family, descendants of New England Puritans involved in the 17th-century witchcraft trials, have inherited an unspoken secret that binds them to each other and to their ancient hilltop house in Madawaska Valley where the lives of four generations of women named Sibyl have unfolded....

The Photographer in Search of Death

Stories of the Real and the Magical

by Michael Mirolla
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Michael Mirolla, in The Photographer in Search of Death, tells us stories that blend the explicable with the inexplicable. As if a camel were actually passing through the eye of a needle, these stories pass what is commonplace through a hyper-realistic lens into the utterly mysterious. Houses have...

Soul Mouth

Poems

by Marilyn Bowering
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

Through evocative storytelling and stylish prose, this collection of poetry explores the story of childhood and the development of observation, sexuality, and spirituality through their connections to the animal world and nature. Nostalgic scenes are depicted through the lens of religion, dreams,...

That Summer in Paris

A New Expanded Edition

by Morley Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018

It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche—the Left Bank of the Seine River—in Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs of A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald was struggling with Tender Is the Night. As his...
by Morley Callaghan, Norman Snider
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018

Combining romance with the darker side of human nature, this novel opens with the hanging of an ex-World War I soldier for involuntary murder. The element of violence blends with a love story involving the late soldier's sister, who seeks to possess the life of her brother's closest friend, John...
by Andre Alexis, Morley Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018

Eighty-five stories by one of Canada's greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan's short fiction are collected here for the first time, while some which have been out of print for decades are now made available. Each volume contains a section...
by Morley Callaghan, James Dubro
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018

Originally published in New York in 1928, this book announced the coming of the urban novel in Canada through the story of Harry Trotter—a “hero” who cannot escape his tendancy toward brutality. Incapable of reflection, he does not realize that he has become a thug, believing instead that if he feels good, things must be right.
by Morley Callaghan, Barry Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018

In 1928, just after he published his first novel, Morley Callaghan asked his editor, "Do you think The New Yorker would be a good magazine for my stories? They have never printed fiction before, but are going to start with that story of mine called ‘An Escapade.'” Through these short stories...

Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow

Acts of Kamikaze Fiction

by Leon Rooke
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

Subversive, edgy, and wildly entertaining, this short story collection is a unique encounter with fiction in Leon Rooke's characteristic style as he peels back the skin of social convention and embraces the chaos of life with characters and themes as unpredictable as an assassin who murders the words...

Pope and Her Lady

A Novella

by Leon Rooke
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018

Presented in a stark dystopian setting, this extraordinary novella follows a lesbian couple on their journeys through the nightmarish reality of the disenfranchised. Peppered with Scottish slang and populated with a wide range of misfits, this book empowers the protagonists living on Glasgow's grim streets and offers a strong feminist perspective.

Over the Rainbow

Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019

Fairy tales tell us the stories we need to hear, the truths we need to be aware of. Arising from oral narrative, born of imagination, they are constantly being adapted to fit new cultural contexts. They shapeshift just like their characters. Their plots, motifs, and elements often serving as warnings. Over...
by Austin Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018

A compelling collection that explores the lives of Afro-Caribbean immigrants living in Canada, these eight short stories delve into the experiences of displaced persons living in contemporary society—all with a richness of language and rhythm that is authentically urban. 

They Never Told Me

And Other Stories

by Austin Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018

In this collection, award-winning author Austin Clarke has caught, in his characters, a sweet longing for youth and an anxiety-stricken rage at old age; an immigrant's longing for a placid, lost home and his lust for a new high-speed motorcar life; and an intellectual's sense of empowerment by black...

Blue Hour

A Novel

by Richard Teleky
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

A contemporary tale which manages that stunning and rare feat – telling a story of human interaction in a way that is universal, revelatory and suspenseful. As fault lines in American society break apart during the spring of 2012, a puzzling death in a small Midwest college town draws a solitary...
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