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A new edition of Philip Child’s great Canadian novel of the First World War.

A beautiful new edition of Hugh Hood’s debut story collection.

In the fertile artistic milieu of 1927 Toronto ... After winning the commission to paint a war memorial mural for Christ Church Grange Park, Nora Britton is found dead on the church floor.

Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these.

Maria Chapdelaine, the quintessential novel of the rugged life of early French-Canadian colonists, is based on the author’s experiences as a hired hand in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area.

First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl's autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist.

B.C. journalist Stephen Hume has said that fur trader and explorer Simon Fraser should be celebrated as the founder of British Columbia.

Arthur James Marshall Smith — prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic — died in 1980.

Half-Mohawk, half-English author Pauline Johnson astounded Canada with her unique poetry, prose, and presentations.

The writing of Robert W. Service is mostly known through his poems and ballads.

The Town Below changed the face of Québécois literature. The Town Below takes place in St. Joseph Parish of Quebec City’s Saint-Sauveur suburb.

From one grenade exploding in 1920s Toronto to the seeds of a new war in Europe … As Torontonians move to the beat of the Jazz Age, war is the furthest thing from their minds.

Winner of the 2004 ForeWord Book of the Year Award Toronto in 1856 is industrializing with little time for scruple or sentiment.

After surviving the horrors of the Great War, Paul Shenstone works as a police detective in 1920s Toronto, rooting out petty criminals and rumrunners.

Homicide becomes more than an academic study for Toronto criminologist Ted Boudreau when his own suburban home is burglarized, with deadly results.