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When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen.

One Friday, Walter Dohaney, novelist M.T. (Jean) Dohaney's husband, went out as usual to play hockey with his friends. She never saw him alive again.

In this new edition of Alden Nowlan's poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is abandoned by the young mother he adores.

Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book AwardFor the first time, the fu

Douglas Glover’s raucous first novel was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and sold out its first and only print run in just one month.

In his breakaway bestseller 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick, Peter Manchester transformed the agony of defeated sticks into the thrill of a new creation, with a slap of good humour tha

A Quill & Quire Book of the YearTen years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories.

A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants.

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day.

A CNQ Editors' Book of the YearA Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada's best younger female writers — such as Heather Birre

In her highly anticipated second novel, Rachael Preston tells a vibrant, compelling story of 20th century piracy.

On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines.

In 1954 Hurricane Hazel caused such destruction around Lake Ontario that it’s a vivid memory half a century later.

A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19

Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman's The Violin Lover is written against the backdrop of Hitler's escalating campaign against the Jews.