In this breakthrough anthology, Canadian writers take up the challenge of imagining themselves as they really are — hard at work in the white collar world, forging ahead in their professions, surviving the perils of office politics, and offering profound insights into the reality of their lives. Foreword by Conrad Black. Available now from Black Moss Press.

This book collects Canadian cartoonist David Collier’s work published over the last 30 years in various publications such as: the National Post, The Nerve, the Globe and Mail, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Geist magazine, The Comics Journal, and many more. With new introductions by the artist himself and plenty of added ephemera, this is the volume that Collier completists have been waiting for. Available now from Conundrum Press.

In this, the final instalment of Jean Rae Baxter’s best-selling young adult trilogy, eighteen-year-old Charlotte sails from Canada to Charleston in the beleaguered Thirteen Colonies to join her new husband Nick. During these final months of the American Revolution, she must muster all her wit and courage when she has to rescue Nick from being tortured as a spy in an alligator-infested South Carolina swamp. Available now from Ronsdale Press.

Daaku: The Gangster's Life picks up the story of Indo–Canadian gangster Ruby Pandher, the hero of Ranj Dhaliwal's bestseller Daaku, as he recovers from a failed hit by his own associates. Violence, wild partying and flashy purchases mark Ruby's comeback. Ruby's eyes and perspective are widened by the new contacts he makes, as he tries to measure up to –– and then sideline –– big–time gangster Khalsi. Available now from New Star Books.

Often cited as one of the finest contemporary lyricists, singer, songwriter and poet John K. Samson captures the essential images of contemporary life. This collection gathers together Samson’s writing, starting with his band The Weakerthans’ 1997 debut album Fallow, through Left and Leaving, Reconstruction Site, and the award-winning Reunion Tour. It also features lyrics from Samson's newly released solo album, Provincial, and selected poems. Available now from Arbeiter Ring Publishing.

After leaving the Winnipeg Police force, former Inspector Frank Foote has gone into home renovations. Tearing down a wall on a Norwood Flats job one day, he and his partner come across the skeleton of a small female who has been imprisoned there. They alert the police but Frank doesn’t tell them about the photograph he’s found tucked in the wall space with the young woman. He may be retired, but his investigative instincts are still strong. Available now from Signature Editions.

Some folks have a talent for finding trouble, no matter how good they try to be, especially Randy Craig. Maybe she shouldn’t date a cop. Maybe she should have turned down the job at the Folkways Collection library—a job that became a nightmare when a rich benefactor’s belligerent heir turned up dead. Randy tried to be good—honest!—but now she’s a prime suspect with a motive and no alibi in sight. Available now from Turnstone Press.

Bullies roam the neighbourhood backyards, scaring and picking on everyone they find. So, when Isaac the bob-tailed cat moves into a nearby house, you know he’ll be the next target. It’s only by forging an unlikely friendship with Gus the seagull, who’s afraid of heights, that the two can face their fears and stand up to the backyard bullies. Available now from Breakwater Books.

It is the summer of 1999, and the Sweltham family leads an ordinary suburban existence. Dad Parker crisscrosses the continent as a sales rep for DynaFlex Sporting Goods, while his wife Trixie serves as the managing editor of an unsuccessful genocide studies journal. Their son Owen has just returned from juvenile prison to the vast horrors of high school. All appears normal. And yet... Sprawling yet scalpel-sharp, Maintenance, like some twenty-first-century White Noise, takes the suburbs to a geography you won't recognize. Available now from Coach House Books.

It was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and restrictions. Vancouver Noir provides a fascinating insight into life in the Terminal City, noir-style. Available now from Anvil Press.

Edward Lacey was one of the rare North American writers who intimately knew the Third World in the latter twentieth century. A superb speaker and translator of multiple languages, he was a gifted teacher in Mexico, Trinidad, Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia. A remarkable Canadian poet, Edward Lacey is among the few who are known beyond our borders. Available now from BookLand Press.

Uplifting, forceful and unflinching, Retribution evocatively charts a family's journey of struggle and survival from one home to the next as it pays tribute to the fortitude of mother-daughter-granddaughter relationships, and celebrates the triumph of beauty and dignity over darkness and horror. Available now from Three O'Clock Press.

The Combals are not unacquainted with death: they have never quite recovered from the loss of one of them in childhood. And now, on Valentine's Day, they are losing another. Guddy races to see her sister, Jerry and Bjarne avoid the phone and its news, Jean finds himself on a beach, and Annie fends off her mother's persistent questions about what's happening. And Therese tries to forgive them all before it's too late.
 Available now from Coach House Books.

Inspired by the gamebook fad of the late 80s — You Are a Cat! is both a parody and homage, focusing on a dysfunctional family, but told through the eyes of their cat. Fully a third of the book is lavishly illustrated from the feline first-person floor perspective. The different choices you make affect people and events! Even something as seemingly trivial as whether or not to purr can result in dramatic changes. Available now from Conundrum Press.

Based on extensive research that included access to Percy’s private letters, diary, and scrapbooks, I Just Ran is the first full-length account of this sports legend, one of the most famous Canadians of his day but now largely forgotten. Winner of the 100- and 200-metre gold medals at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, Percy Williams shocked the sports world, conquering a sport dominated by the Americans. Available now from Ronsdale Press.

A year after watching Leo go through thin ice, twelve-year-old Ferd is obsessed with the idea that he can persuade his dead brother to come through a campaign of letters. Ferd's mother, Algoma, is also unravelling; attempting to hide her sons letters, reconnect with her increasingly distant husband, and rebuild her life. Algoma is a story of loss, obsession, giving up, and moving on. Available now from Invisible Publishing.

In these pages find the origins of Canadian hockey and the birth of international hockey. This book is about hockey all over North America and is a tribute to our widely forgotten heroes, because remember, hockey began in Manitoba. From amateur sport to the pros, we couldn't be prouder of our heritage. Forgotten Heroes delivers history, but moreover, it's an exciting play by play ride of the war on ice. Available now from J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing.

Principals & Other Schoolyard Bullies is a collection of eleven short stories, which, though unified by a dark theme, are diverse and surprisingly optimistic. The voices that recount the stories differ significantly, yet all resonate with the clarity of unmistakable truth. Fonda avoids the kind of graphic violence inherent in dealing with a topic like bullying in favour of focussing on qualities like courage and fortitude, sometimes displayed in the face of intimidating odds. Available now from Baraka Books.

Talking Music is a collection of nineteen of Holger Petersen's in-depth radio interviews with artists — the pioneering men and women who created the blues and roots sounds that have influenced the course of popular culture and music in North America. Many of his interview subjects are no longer with us — their stories need to be told. Available now from Insomniac Press. TINARS launch September 30th @ Revival.

Will Thorne is a stalled poet, married to Judy, a wildly successful celebrity economist. Pressured by a starving fellow poet, Will establishes The Poets’ Preservation Society, a genteel organization to help poets in need. Poetry meets parkour and culture clashes with commerce in this hilarious look at how we measure the value of art. Available now from Brindle & Glass.

"Gripping. A moving, scary story of love and betrayal."
—Kathy Reichs, New York Times bestseller author and producer of the hit TV series, Bones

Based on a true story, Tell Anna She's Safe is the tale of two women, one missing, the other searching for her. Available now from Inanna Publications.

When Vito Santoro’s body is inadvertently unearthed by a demolition crew in Fregene, Italy, his siblings are thrown into turmoil, having been told by their sister Piera that Vito had fled to Argentina fifty years earlier after abandoning his wife and son. Now scattered over three continents, the family members regroup in Italy to try to discover the truth. Available now from Signature Editions.

“a compelling crawl through the claustro confines of depression and sweeping suicidal desire … Dark, beautiful, poignant and clever, Arcan’s Exit is a powerful read.”  —Lisa Foad, The Globe & Mail

Exit is at once a profound examination of what it is that drives someone to want to end their life, as well as how that urge can be turned on its head against all odds. Written with her signature brio and acerbic wit, Nelly Arcan’s last novel is a hymn to life. Available now from Anvil Press.

In the spring of 1966 Ken Leishman stepped onto the tarmac of the Winnipeg Airport and into the pages of Canadian history. By then, the mastermind behind the country’s largest gold heist had already gained Dillingeresque notoriety as a gentlemanly bank robber. Toronto headlines had spread the news about the brazen — and polite ‘Flying Bandit’. This time, he almost got away. Almost. Available now from Turnstone Press.

Little Comrades tells the story of a girl growing up in a dysfunctional left-wing family in the Canadian West during the Depression, then moving, alone with her mother, to New York City during America’s fervently anti-Communist postwar years. With wit and honesty, Laurie Lewis describes an unusual childhood and an adventurous adolescence. Available now from the Porcupine's Quill.

"double talk is more than a simple he-said/she-said account of a doomed marriage. It’s an exhilarating (and sometimes terrifying) look at the murky complexities that lie under the surface of all relationships.”  –Michael Crummey, author of Galore, River Thieves, and The Wreckage

No happy-ever-after story, double talk follows Violet and Brian over a fourteen-year period, as the ordinary pressures of life bring to the surface the many differences that exist between them. double talk is a coming-of-age novel, a love story and an examination of social class and its mysterious codes. Available now from Breakwater Books.

"In Strange Days, Ted Ferguson has assembled an amazing cast of Canadian rogues, leaders, visionaries, tough guys, trendsetters, and barrier-breakers. And the best part is, their stories are all true. Ferguson sets fire to the myth that Canadians are boring. His whirlwind tour of Canada in the Roaring Twenties will leave you breathless and shaking your head in amazement." – Terry Fallis, author of the CBC Canada Reads winner, The Best Laid Plans

Now available from NeWest Press.

True Story is an illustrated collection of miniature memoirs. Mike Holmes is editor, interpreter, guide and illustrator. He puts his own spin on the middle school embarrassments, near death experiences, bad dates, reunions, funeral faux pas, and first kisses, of people like you and me. The end result is engaging, funny—genius. Available now from Invisible Publishing.

Dirty Drunk and Punk chronicles the outrageous years of the Bunchofuckingoofs through the eyes, photos and blurred memories of the people who lived long enough to tell it. Available now from Insomniac Press.

More than a simple story of a killer and his victims, Nondescript Rambunctious takes the reader into the life of a family, the days of a community, and the very real possibility that evil is everywhere—maybe even inside us. Woven through this dark tapestry are the glittering threads of humanity, humour, and in the form of one young woman, the promise of redemption. Available now from Anvil Press.