Allison Finley: Below the Surface
Theo is happy spending his summer searching the river for treasure. Even if he mostly just finds empty cans and fishing lures. But when he discovers a pocket watch in the waters beneath a bridge that’s said to be haunted, he is sure his luck has changed.
Dominique Bernier-Cormier: Entre Rive and Shore
According to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison the night before the Acadian Deportation by disguising himself in a dress.
Jessica Johns: Bad Cree
A haunting debut novel where dreams, family and spirits collide. Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. An ode to female relations and the strength found in kinship.
Jacqueline Firkins: Marlowe Banks, Redesigned
In this romantic women’s fiction about second chances, a young woman escapes to LA to start fresh after a failed career and broken engagement.
Cathalynn Labonte-Smith: Rescue Me
Rescue Me takes you behind the scenes of some of North America’s riskiest search and rescue operations.
Sally Ito: Heart’s Hydrography
In her fourth book of poetry, Sally Ito traverses the complex channels and tributaries of a heart mapped by the ineffable pull of family and faith.
Tara McGuire: Holden After and Before
Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose. Tara McGuire excavates and documents the life path of her son Holden, a graffiti artist who died of an accidental opioid overdose at the age of twenty-one. Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief.
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.
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.