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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

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

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick.

Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man.

For Mattie Willit, caught in a thunderstorm running away from her bullying stepfather,rescue comes in the form of Jacob Kemble,a widowed farmer living with his two young children.

Miranda Fox desperately wants to find the daughter her family took from her when she was young.

Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave home in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless.

Gwynna had fallen from grace once, bearing a stillborn child out of wedlock. Determined to have a respectable future, she finds a position for herself as a nursemaid at Hungerton House.

Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere.

When, after the death of her mother, Cassandra Trent is told that she must join her aunt and have a London Season, she is full of rage.