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From the very beginning, Orson was a misfit. Like all border collies, he needed to work.

In the tradition of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, this collection of short essays and “alternative versions” is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminde

When Jon Katz got a call from an animal control officer about Simon, a neglected donkey who had been found on a failing farm in upstate New York, he wasn't expecting to add another animal to h

Relates the author's relationship with a quiet, sensitive artist named Maria Wulf and his campaign to win over Maria's fiercely protective dog, Frieda, a Rottweiler-shepherd mix who resis

Short-listed for the 1988 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award and Trillium Book Award Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium fl

Of one of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry."

From Istanbul to New Delhi to Boulder, Colorado, through Venice, Paris, Rome, and points between.

In geology an erratic is a "boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier." In award-winning novelist Mark Frutkin’s case, his movement fro

This magical new novel by Governor General and Trillium Prize nominee Mark Frutkin, set in 13th century Venice and Cathay, is a dazzling fresco of shimmering language, brimming with golden tableaus

If there is one person to whom Lady Marlowe would rather not owe her life, it is the Duke of Buckington, a man she detests.

A thrilling story set against the background of England, India and 19th Century Hong Kong.

In order to save his ancestral home and estate, the Earl of Irchester must do the unthinkable and marry the daughter of Groon, the most notorious Usurer in the whole of 19th century London.

The war with Napoleon won, the Earl of Hellington begins another campaign, the pursuit of a pretty yet infuriating young milliner who evades all his attempts to make her his mistress.

Disguised as a French governess, Nadina Talbort is hiding in Constantinople wondering how she will get back to England.

How will Astaria choose between three cousins offered to her as husbands?