From Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains......
From Acorn Press: Mud, Sweat and Tears tells the story of Bud Ings' adventures as a rural veterinarian in the 1950s. As one of Prince......
From University of Toronto Press: Strupac, fornenst, trappy, scriss, kippy, snool, flying axehandles, from across - these and hundreds of other fascinating and colourful words......
From Turnstone Press: Spare, but warm and quietly elegant, Fatted Calf Blues uses metaphor, simile, and imagery to leave a lasting impression on the reader.......
From Doubleday Canada: Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul tells an intricate story about the miscarriage of justice in the case of one man's......
From Nimbus Publishing: In this little gem of a novel, author Allan Donaldson depicts the tragedy of a human life oppressed by the residual nightmare......
From Oberon Press: "When I began writing this story, I had no idea where it would go or what I would call it. The story......
From McClelland & Stewart: These sixteen superbly crafted stories, most of them firmly based in Cape Breton even if its people stray elsewhere, depict men......
From Goose Lane Editions: In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version......
From Harper Perennial: By all accounts, the bludgeoning murder in 1949 of a taxi driver by brothers George and Rufus Hamilton was a "slug-ugly" crime.......
