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Meredith Hambrock: Other People’s Secrets
Baby’s down—and could be out for good—when she faces off with forces bent on turning her lakeside paradise into a living hell, for fans of Alissa Nutting and Amy Engel.
Shelly Kawaja: The Raw Light of Morning
The Raw Light of Morning is a powerful debut novel about women and children finding humour and love in the aftermath of domestic violence. Fourteen-year-old Laurel Long does something unimaginable. In a house at the back end of Woods Road, she commits an act of violence that alters the course of her life.
Danny Ramadan: The Foghorn Echoes
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam’s father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim.
Colleen Anderson: I Dreamed A World
A collection of 60 poems exploring fairy tales, myths, witches and legends from a female perspective.
Shannon Webb-Campbell: Lunar Tides
These poems explore the primordial connections between love, grief and water, structured within the lunar calendar. The poetics follow rhythms of the body, the tides, the moon and deep familial relationships that are both personal and ancestral.
Winona Kent: Ticket to Ride
In 1974, top UK band Figgis Green was riding high in the charts with their blend of traditional Celtic ballads mixed with catchy, folky pop. One of their biggest fans was sixteen-year old Pippa Gladstone, who mysteriously vanished while she was on holiday with her parents in Spain in March that same year.
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt: Peacekeeper’s Daughter
Peacekeeper’s Daughter is the astonishing story of a French-Canadian military family stationed in Israel and Lebanon in 1982-1983, told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl.
Colleen Anderson: A Body of Work
Savory teeth, sentient insects, deadly automatons, VR worlds, ensorcelled blades, nanotech healing, possessive fungus, gingerbread people, prophetic soap bubbles and more: this Body of Work is a stitchery of tales, a strange creature that is alluring, disturbing and thought-provoking.
Michelle Barker: The House of One Thousand Eyes
Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it’s particularly hard. This searing novel about defiance, courage, and determination takes readers into the chilling world of a society ruled by autocratic despots, where nothing is what it seems.