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  • Sir Charles God Damn

    The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts

    by John Coldwell Adams ...
    Series series Heritage
    A new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts’ Orion and Other Poems. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets—Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. During his long lifetime he wrote hundreds of poems as well as novels, histories, short stories, translations, and essays ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • 101 Letters to a Prime Minister

    The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper

    by Yann Martel ...
    A compendium of 101 book recommendations from Booker Prize–winning author Yann Martel (Life of Pi) to Prime Minister Stephen Harper—each with an accompanying letter, together probing the question: what sort of mind, nourished by what, do we want our leaders to have?Politely and unfailingly, every two weeks for almost four years, Yann Martel sent Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper a book and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Speaking in the Past Tense

    Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction

    by Herb Wyile ...
    “Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.”— Herb Wyile, from the IntroductionThe extermination of the Beothuk ... the exploration of the Arctic ... the ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Red-Handed

    by Mike Landry ...
    The true stories that inspired Lisa Moore’s latest novel Caught.When journalist Mike Landry called Lisa Moore for an interview, he began by listing four names, and asking, “What do these names mean to you?” The award-winning author of Alligator and February paused and took a deep breath. Not one of the names appears in Caught, but their stories were more entwined with Moore’s fictional account of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

    Edited by Coral Ann Howells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Robertson Davies Reconsidered (From the Vault: UTQ Special Collections)

    Edited by Russell Morton Brown, Donna Bennett ...
    This volume is a collection of papers that had their origin in a symposium called ‘Reconsiderations of Robertson Davies,’ which took place at Massey College, University of Toronto. Davies helped found Massey and he served as its first master (1963–81). Prior to this role, Davies had (after an abortive career as an actor) been known to the Canadian public as a journalist, a witty and satiric ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Snake Crosses the Tracks at Midnight

    by Daniel Karasik ...
    Series series FPQ
    People grow in dimensions other than those we perceive.The teenage narrator of award-winning author Daniel Karasik’s latest story must deal with the fact that his older sister is now a grown woman, and Lucy, his crush-next-door, has become a mystery, with depths beyond his comprehension. Has he been coasting all this time, school and television his life’s only sources of momentum? ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Notebooks

    Selections from the A.M. Klein Papers (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)

    by A.M. Klein ...
    Series series Heritage
    Much of A.M. Klein's finest prose is to be found in the mass of uncompleted work that he abandoned at the time of his breakdown, and that became accessible only when his papers were deposited in the National Archives. Notebooks offers a generous selection of this work, revealing previously unsuspected facets of Klein's character and artistry.The fiction, criticism, and memoirs collected here focus ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Getting Started

    A Memoir of the 1950s

    by William Weintraub ...
    With letters from Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, and Brian MooreGetting Started is a wonderful memoir, a collection of extraordinary letters, and a brilliant recreation of a time when Canadian writers were set to make their mark in the world for the first time.Writer Brian Moore emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the late 1940s and found work at the Montreal Gazette, where he also found William ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

    Edited by David Staines ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Bread Out of Stone

    Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics

    by Dionne Brand ...
    Bread Out of Stone is an original and forceful study of race, sex and politics in contemporary culture. Personal and poetic, these essays speak of matters close to the heart of a black writer. This evocative and insightful collection has been fully updated and includes four previously unpublished essays. She turns her clear, unflinching eye to issues of sex and sexism; male violence toward women; ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye

    Apocalypse and Alchemy

    by B.W. Powe ...
    Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe, who studied with both of these formidable and influential intellectuals, presents an exploration of their lives and work in Marshall McLuhan and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD