Biblioasis: 218 books

WINNER OF THE QWF FIRST BOOK PRIZE “Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories.”-David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World Alice Petersen's All the Voices...

After the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins . . . Today, I know that’s not true. Where man remains, a seed, too, survives, a dream to inseminate time. Published in the aftermath of Mozambique’s bloody civil war, Mia Couto’s third collection seeks out the places...

North American fiction debut by the winner of the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2016. Shortlisted for the Wales 2015 Book of the Year – Fiction. Carys Davies has been selected one of 18 Fellows for the 2016-2017...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD"As a potential heir to the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, McInnis is off to a promising start."-Publishers WeeklyAn affair that begins in an apothecary’s garden brings Joyce to a hospice, where she tends to the dying alongside her own grief....

Set in locales and time periods as varied as nineteenth century England, contemporary Spain, and postwar Alberta, these five stories and two novellas introduce us to characters whose obsessions occupy the borderlands between fantasy and reality. In the title story, the half-black grand-daughter of slaves becomes an exotic dancer in New York during WWI and develops a passion for goldfish.

Filmmaker Rose Leclair is beautiful, famous, and happily married. But when a new star actress begins commanding unwelcome amounts of attention—even, reportedly, from Rose's own husband—her life of privilege unspools. First published in 1967, The Camera Always Lies is an absorbing novel of Hollywood politics and one woman's struggle to survive them.

Like the paintings of Jan Vermeer and Edward Hopper, Hugh Hood’s short fiction looks hard at what some might call the surface of things. Like the finely wrought realism of those canvases, Hood’s super-realist style doesn’t just see—it sees into. While his early publications prompted his reputation...

Ellie Lucan's about as far as she can get from the screwed-up teenager she used to be. She's got a doctorate, her husband's a prominent academic, and their children are excelling at a Montessori.When she loses her teaching job, however, she packs up her sons to spend the summer in her hometown....

During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truman, with teeth as rotten as his soul, drives his battered car along the same paths.

Ann Ireland is the past president of PEN Canada She won the Seal $50,000 First Novel Award, and her work has been shortlisted for several other prizes, including the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Rogers/Writers Trust Award for Fiction and the Ontario Trillium Award. This...

The first novel (pub. originally in 1979) from Clark Blaise Like some of his most compelling short stories, Lunar Attractions draws on Clark's experience of growing up poor in the deep South (i.e. Florida swamplands) Tells a story much like Clark's life: sickly boy, son of a handsome,...

A CBC DAY 6 MUST-READ BOOK FOR SUMMER A 49TH SHELF EDITOR'S PICK Henry Banks, star of the UK’s most popular television series, has higher aspirations, ones befitting of his talent: a serious film career, beginning with a role in a brilliant Spanish director’s next movie. To make...

In his fourth collection, C. P. Boyko turnshis keen eye to the question of power—in schools and on campuses, in doctor’s offices and boardrooms, in triage tents and on the battlefield. A high-school math teacher tries too hard to be liked; childhood friends grow up and go to war for very different...

In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction. Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to Shanghai residents about their colossal city and commiserates...