Biblioasis: 218 books

A Library Journal Key Indie Fiction Title, Fall 2014A BBC.com Book to Read for October, 2014Meet Xavier Boland, the untouchable cross-dresser, who walks loose and carefree as an old Broadway tune. Meet Miss Penrice, a lost old woman forced by wartime to parent a child for the first time. Meet a Zamboni...

Fans of Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent will enjoy Grigg's historical novel with fantastical elements. Griggs is well known for her playfulness of language, and has been called "Robertson Davies on speed" for her raucous but intelligent humor. Grigg's is one of the best readers/storytellers...

"Entertaining, moving, informative, intelligently hopeful: I know of few other books like this one to warm the cockles of a booklover's heart." -Alberto Manguel"For anyone who loves books too well-who lusts after them, lives in them, mainlines them-David Mason’s memoir will be a fix from heaven. Heartful,...

Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter's debut collection is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows. Trotter's poems-which could be the bastard love-children of Stevens and Frost-refract,...

It is 1984. The latest recession is said to be over, and in the steel city of Hamilton, things are picking up. For Paul, however, an ex-rock guitarist and current art gallery attendant, life has slowed to the pace of a still life on a wall. He badly needs a jolt -- and he gets one. Soon after the...

Mike Barnes' Braille Rainbow is about perception across the sensory spectrum and the arc of learning about the world and about oneself. These poems, organized in four sections, engage first with infant appetites, others, and social justice, before turning inward to traverse the perilous heights and...

New poetry from a writer who has been published in major poetry magazines across Canada (ARC Poetry), the US (Poetry), and the UK (Dark Horse), and featured online by Best American Poetry and the Poetry Foundation Jernigan's first book of poems, Groundwork, was listed as one of NPR's Top 5...

A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist, was equally accomplished in short forms and long: this straight-talking assessment of Hood's stories is thorough,...

At Dream Inc., a lifestyle magazine publisher, people are struggling not only to do their jobs-or even to keep them-but to fall in love and stay that way, to have friends, to be good parents and good children, to eat lunch and answer the phone and be happy. Which can be pretty interesting . . . even...

Intense, intelligent writing to engage any fan of short fiction Invited to Growing Room 2018, fan base among feminist readers Long-time feted Canadian writer, ripe for "discovery" among a US audience.

Rebecca Rosenblum's Once is a fiercely original and assured debut, a collection of sixteen stories portraying the constricted and confused lives of the rootless twenty-somethings -- students, office techies, waitresses, warehouse labourers, street hustlers -- who inhabit them. These are stories grounded...

A MILLIONS.COM MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2013A HYPOALLERGIC FALL LITERARY RELEASE TO KNOW ABOUT“Norm Sibum is not everyone's cup of tea ... instead of breathing air he inhales the exhaust of apocalyptic times.”-Books in CanadaA place: the Traymore Rooms, downtown Montreal, an old walk-up. Those who...

The novel was inspired in part by Levine's own experiences and knowledge of technical diving — in which people undertake dangerous, extremely deep SCUBA expeditions. Risk-addiction plays a central role in the book. Though tense and at times horrifying (in the fashion of Brian Evenson's work), the book is character-driven.

Listless, bored, alienated, and mistrustful, Trace Patterson has finished his first year of university and is living with a drunken aunt in North Van. He divides his nights between slasher films and high school house parties. When two old buddies resurface, however—one in a psych ward, and the other...