Fiction

Stories that cross borders of place and imagination, bringing Montreal and the wider world to life in prose that lingers long after the last page.

There’s Always More to Say
Author: Natalie Southworth
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDERIn the title story of Natalie Southworth's debut collection, sisters sneak out of their unstable mother's apartment to find "reality," an experience with lasting repercussion...
The Unfinished World
Author: Marilyn Bowering
AVAILABLE NOWDistraught after her grandmother Nora's death, Pearl scatters her ashes in the places Nora loved. As she retraces her grandmother's last journey, she recovers a series of handmade doll...
Sentence
Author: Mikhail Iossel
In Sentence, Mikhail Iossel performs a remarkable juggling act between genres and countries. Can you write a "Russian" sentence in English? The author has found a perfect syntactical solution to th...
The Bigamist
Author: Felicia Mihali
The Bigamist tells the story of a woman torn between her husband and her lover—and about her transition to a new life in a city teeming with multiple identities. Tension mounts as she risks o...
Other Maps
Author: Rebecca Morris
Anna Leverett is home for her dad's retirement party and counting the days until she can leave. She is sick of being reminded that her life has consisted of wrong turns and dead ends. Then a meetin...
Here Is Still Here
Author: Sivan Slapak
Isabel, raised in a family of post-war Jewish immigrants in Canada, embarks on a journey to find love, purpose and home, navigating between Montreal and Jerusalem. In Here Is Still Here, Sivan Slap...
Mukbang
Author: Fanie Demeule
Kim Delorme is uninterested in the world beyond her computer screen, instead living on a diet of video games, early 2000s Internet videos, and fads. It’s not long before she discovers mukbang...
Léa
Author: Ariela Freedman
How do you change the world? Meet Léa, polyglot, labour activist, farbrente feminist. Born to a large Jewish family and raised in a French Catholic town, Léa moves fluidly between lan...
Firebrands
Author: Marc Ménard
Philippe is a man of routine. He has a job, a wife, two kids, and an uneventful life in the suburbs of Montreal. His days as a student chasing neo-Nazis across Europe feels like a lifetime ago. Unt...
No Crystal Stair
Author: Mairuth Sarsfield
First published in 1993, No Crystal Stair is an absorbing story of urban struggle in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find gainful employment if she passe...
I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through
Author: Jack Hannan
A photographer takes pictures of his wife. She watches him look. What do they see and how does that change over the years? I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through is about what keeps people together...
A Cemetery for Bees
Author: Alina Dumitrescu
This autobiographical novel traces a woman's journey from her youth in Socialist Eastern Europe to her transplanted life in Montreal, Canada. She is a precocious, thoughtful child, whose early life...
Daughter of Here
Author: Ioana Georgescu
Daughter of Here is an experiment in memory, desire, and time. As she sifts through her international whirlwind romance with Célestin, her larger-than-life love for her daughter Mo, and her ...
Lightness
Author: Fanie Demeule
Told with startling, unapologetic honesty and in a haunting, minimalist style, Lightness is the story of a young woman's profound sense of alienation, beginning with her own physical body and its d...
The Far Himalaya
Author: Phillip Ernest
Young and homeless on the streets of Toronto, Benjamin Doheney is sustained by an unusual sources of strength: his devotion to Sanskrit, the ancient literary language of India. Together with Aditi,...
The Girl Who Stole Everything
Author: Norman Ravvin
A stolen house on a Polish square. A pop bottle on Vancouver’s east side. Nadia Baltzan knows a few things about theft. The Girl Who Stole Everything is a fresh and telling portrait of the re...
Claremont
Author: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
How to survive the unthinkable? This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his parent’s murder-suicide. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he m...
Blindshot
Author: Denis Coupal
When financier Paul Carignan is hit by a stray bullet and killed in Beaufort, Quebec, the town leaders are reluctant to investigate. Running out of patience, his teenage sons, Jack and Noah, take j...
A Joy To Be Hidden
Author: Ariela Freedman
Alice Stein, a young graduate student living in a vivid and chaotic late-90s East Village, loses her father and grandmother in a single year. In the process of cleaning out her grandmother's Brookl...
Butterfly
Author: John Delacourt
Lucien and Nataša might have slipped toward love, if her past in Sarajevo hadn’t caught up with her. Nataša finds work modeling for a painter in Toronto, but he is murdered. Nat...
White Out
Author: Martine Delvaux
WHITE OUT is at first glance a woman’s invention, over and over again, of the man who chose not to be her father, leaving his young lover pregnant. Yet, arcing from late-1960s Quebec to the p...
Rebellion
Author: Cristina Carvalho
Rebellion is Portuguese literary celebrity Cristina Carvalho’s international debut. Born a rebel, Lena escapes her provincial existence and heads for Lisbon as a young woman to make a mo...
The Vetala
Author: Phillip Ernest
Nada Marjanovic, professor of Sanskrit at the University of Zagreb, has spent more than twenty years translating an obscure text on the vetala, a parasitic, vampire-like being that possesses the bo...
The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner
Author: Jennifer Quist
Morgan Turner’s grief over her sister’s brutal murder has become a rut, an everyday horror she is caught in along with her estranged parents and chilly older brother. In search of a way...
The Philistine
Author: Leila Marshy
Nadia Eid doesn't know it yet, but she's about to change her life. It's the end of the ‘80s and she hasn’t seen her Palestinian father since he left Montreal years ago to take a job in ...
Hutchison Street
Author: Abla Farhoud
With one side in Mile End and the other in Outremont, Hutchison Street is inhabited by characters from many different backgrounds, including a community of Hasidim and a writer whose newest project...
What Is To Be Done?
Author: Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant’s only play is a comedy that opens in 1942, in the heat of the battle against Fascism, when it was possible for Canadians to cheer both for Stalin and the Royal Family. At home ...
Dr. Bethune's Children
Author: Xue Yiwei. Translator Darryl Sterk
Dr. Bethune’s Children tells the stories of the offspring of two ordinary families marked by cataclysms both natural and man-made. From the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen Square massacr...
The Carpenter from Montreal
Author: George Fetherling
Worlds collide when a naïve young heiress takes a tumble for a bootlegger with a murderous temper and his business partner falls in love with Montreal, the way Americans are prone to do. One w...
Mr. Singh Among the Fugitives
Author: Stephen Henighan
R. U. Singh has always known he is destined to live the life of an English country squire. After a few false starts, in Bombay, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, he settles into a comfortable existence as ...
Arabic for Beginners
Author: Ariela Freedman
When Hannah accompanies her husband and small children to Jerusalem for the year, she becomes fascinated with a group of expat women at her son’s daycare, as well as a young Palestinian woman...
The Evil That Men Do
Author: Michael Blair
Riley becomes entangled in the wreckage left behind by a con man called Brandt who ran a Ponzi scheme on the West Island of Montreal. When the fifty-million-dollar scheme falls apart and dozens of ...
Shenzheners
Author: Xue Yiwei. Translator Darryl Sterk
The first book in English by acclaimed Chinese-Canadian writer Xue Yiwei, Shenzheners is inspired by the young city of Shenzhen, a market town north of Hong Kong that became a Special Eco...
True Arab Love
Author: Issa J. Boullata
Abdallah’s encounter with the military governor on the eve of his departure for America opens this collection of stories, and Khalil al-Ibrahami’s moving search for his lost fianc&eacut...
The Last Bullet Is For You
Author: Martine Delvaux. Translator David Homel
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is the title of Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart’s classic hymn to love, which novelist Angela Carter once described as being “like Mada...
The Company of Crows
Author: Karen Molson
At thirteen, bookish Veronica Reid lives in a world inside her head, even if she isn’t entirely successful at resisting the intrusions of the world outside. It’s bad enough that she has...
The Poet Is a Radio
Author: Jack Hannan
Li Bai has journeyed across the world and perhaps across centuries. When he comes across a bag of money in a downtown parking lot, we also meet the delinquent who lost the bag of money in the first...
Torp
Author: Michael Mirolla
Giulio di Orio, an assistant lecturer in Philosophy, brings one of his students, known as Torp to the Vancouver flat he shares with his wife Nicole. Soon their landlord is convinced that Torp is th...
The Book of Faith
Author: Elaine Kalman Naves
Mordecai Richler meets Jane Austen In The Book of Faith. Faith, Rhoda, and Erica, affectionately known the Three Graces, are members of a liberal Jewish congregation in contemporary Montreal. ...
Open Season
Author: Peter Kirby
A Guatemalan journalist is kidnapped, and the only message from her kidnappers is the murder of her lawyer. In a race against time, Luc Vanier sets about reconstructing her life, through the sordid...
Sistering
Author: Jennifer Quist
The second novel by award-winning novelist Jennifer Quist is a black comedy of birth, death, love, marriage, mothers-in-law—and five sassy sisters. When Suzanne’s role as the perfect da...
Bitter Rose
Author: Martine Delvaux. Translator David Homel
A little girl is growing up in an Ontario village. Her father has taken off, and the world is full of dangers she doesn't understand. Her friends have names like Manon-just-Manon, BB, and Valence B...
True Believers
Author: Michael Blair
Things are slow for Burlington, Vermont, Private Investigator Hack Loomis, so he agrees to look into the disappearance of his assistant’s friend Belle Ryerson. Belle went missing after atte...
The Sicilian Wife
Author: Caterina Edwards
The Sicilian Wife is both a literary novel and a mystery. Fulvia, the Mafia Princess, must be a dutiful daughter or the family will be dishonoured. Though she eventually escapes and makes a ne...
Sons and Fathers
Author: Daniel Goodwin
Sons and Fathers is a novel about men. It tells the story of how three men use their talent to help and hurt each other – and compete with the accomplishments of their fathers. Three fr...
A Second Chance
Author: Felicia Mihali
Adam is happily married when he has a stroke at the age of fifty, and his behaviour changes to that of a ten-year-old. What are his secrets? His wife would like to know.A Second Chance reveals its ...
Vigilante Season
Author: Peter Kirby
Montreal’s Hochelaga district is in the throes of gentrification, its drug dealers and prostitutes are disappearing, and Luc Vanier suspects the neighbourhood cleanup may involve murdering th...
The Girls of Piazza d'Amore
Author: Connie Guzzo-McParland
A quintessential Calabrian love story. The Girls of Piazza d’Amore traces the lives of three village girls and the forces that lead them to leave home for a new life across the ocea...
Love Letters of the Angels of Death
Author: Jennifer Quist
A breathtaking literary debut, Love Letters of the Angels of Death begins as a young couple discover the remains of his mother in her mobile home. The rest of the family fall back, leavin...
The Dead of Winter
Author: Peter Kirby
Inspector Luc Vanier is drinking his way through Christmas Eve when he is called out to investigage the murder of five homeless people. His investigation takes him into the backrooms of the Catholi...
The Darling of Kandahar
Author: Felicia Mihali
In 2007, a Canadian soldier stationed in Kandahar sent a letter to Maclean’s magazine thanking the editors for the cover of their annual University Student Edition, which featured a youn...

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