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Dance the Rocks Ashore by Lesley Choyce
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. This collection of short stories, Dance the Rocks Ashore, is certainly choice Choyce. Dance the Rocks Ashore contains substantial new stories... -
The Silent Partner by Herb Curtis 9780864922144
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Corry Quinn starts off on the wrong foot. When he's very small, his mother dies. Then his feckless father, heading down the road from his Miramichi village to Toronto, deposits Corry with his Uncle... -
Christmas with Maud Lewis by Bob Brooks 9781773100609
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Maud Lewis has become one of Canada's favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were... -
Strong Hollow by Linda Little 9780864923516
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30In her bold debut novel, Linda Little has crafted a story where music, creativity, and sexuality merge, as a young Nova Scotian carver embarks on a profound discovery of his sense of self. Strong... -
Overnight Sensation by Colleen Curran
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Overnight Sensation is the independent and richly entertaining sequel to Colleen Curran's hilarious first novel, Something Drastic. Lenore Rutland, an unsophisticated but astute singing waitress in a... -
Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice-Married Man by Philip Lee
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Sometimes the life we have constructed needs to fall apart before we can begin the process of making something better. After his first marriage ended, Philip Lee found himself living with his younger... -
Eyemouth Keith Harrison 9780864921284
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45A spellbinding Scottish novel set in Edinburgh and Upper Canada during the tumultuous years of the French revolution and the Napoleonic war, Eyemouth is a wonderful novel with a definite Scottish... -
World Enough by Lesley Choyce 9780864922465
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06When their farm gets expropriated to make way for the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant, Alexander McNab and his family move to Saint John. Without the magic of the Bay of Fundy, without the bright... -
Prairie Ostrich Tamai Kobayashi 9780864926807
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging WritersNot every story has a happy ending. Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich... -
Of Earthly and River Things: An Angler's Memoir by Wayne Curtis
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30"One could do worse than to grow up on a river." In his new collection of essays, Wayne Curtis voyages back through the tributaries of his past, throwing a pastoral net over the backwaters of his... -
Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak by Anna Hudson 9781773100913
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.34Two generations of Inuit artists challenging the parameters of tradition.Kenojuak Ashevak shot to fame in 1970 when Canada Post printed The Enchanted Owl, a print of a black-and-red plumed nocturnal... -
Waterborne by JoAnne Soper-Cook 9780864923073
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Waterborne is a preternatural tale of the Atlantic layered with the textures, colours, and voices of the sea. Stella Maris Goulding is the unwanted child of a teenage mother and a usually absent... -
The Elephant Talks to God by Dale Estey 9780864924599
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45The Elephant Talks to God is an endearing collection of whimsical tales in which a young elephant forages for answers to that age-old existential puzzle: What is the meaning of life? In this new... -
All the Gold Hurts My Mouth by Katherine Leyton 9780864928863
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Winner, 2017 ReLit AwardKatherine Leyton's fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and interrogating... -
Riding Into War: The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919 by James Robert Johnston 9780864924124
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from... -
The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr. by Debra Komar 9780864928719
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-FictionIs it possible to reach back in time and solve an... -
Black River Road: An Unthinkable Crime, an Unlikely Suspect, and the Question of Character by Debra Komar 9780864928764
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Shortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book AwardIn 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly... -
Uncle Cy's War: The First World War Letters of Major Cyrus F. Inches by Valerie Teed
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30At 31 years old, Major Cyrus Inches resolved to survive the Great War, and did so without losing his sense of humour, in spite of the tragedies he constantly faced. His letters home were stored and... -
Guests of Chance by Colleen Curran 9780864924384
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.22Colleen Curran returns with her latest novel, Guests of Chance, completing the hilarious trilogy that has taken readers through break-ups, make-ups, fierce friendships, a trip to Hollywood and... -
Fauxccasional Poems by Daniel Scott Tysdal 9780864928726
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30In Fauxccasional Poems, Daniel Scott Tysdal imagines himself into poetic voices not his own, writing to commemorate events that never occurred, for the posterity of alternative universes - and the... -
The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure by Laurie Hamilton 9780864923349
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of... -
The Summer of Apartment X by Lesley Choyce 9780864922700
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Lesley Choyce's novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian, intend to take the beach resort... -
To Live and Die in Scoudouc by Hermenegilde Chiasson 9781773100357
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30First published in 1974, Mourir a Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson's poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh collective... -
Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental Wanda Nanibush 9781773100968
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £21.38Facing the monumental issues of our time.In a 2012 performance piece, Rebecca Belmore transformed an oak tree surrounded by monuments to colonialism in Toronto's Queens Park into a temporary... -
Going Fast by Elaine McCluskey 9780864925251
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53In this punchy, uproarious romp of a novel, the Halifax boxing world - peopled with has-beens, wannabes, and posers dressed in spandex, leopard prints, and tie dye - touches gloves with the colourful... -
No Ordinary Magic: The Art of Laurie Swim by Carol Bruneau 9781773103457
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £21.88Finalist, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book AwardLaurie Swim is an artist of extraordinary range and vision. For more than forty years, she has been among the most capable and passionate... -
Man of Bone by Alan Cumyn 9780864922298
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Winner, Ottawa-Carleton Book AwardShortlisted, Trillium AwardMan of Bone has a thriller's taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a heart-wrenching portrait of an ordinary Canadian... -
Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven Linda Johns 9780864924308
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Winner, Evelyn Richardson Memorial Prize for Non-FictionWell-known naturalist and artist Linda Johns shares her woodland home with a menagerie of injured wild birds - starlings, blue jays, pigeons,... -
The Wanton Troopers by Alden Nowlan
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30In this new edition of Alden Nowlan's poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is abandoned by the young mother he adores. Family... -
Man of Bone by Alan Cumyn 9780864922908
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Winner, Ottawa-Carleton Book AwardShortlisted, Trillium AwardMan of Bone has a thriller's taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a heart-wrenching portrait of an ordinary Canadian... -
Airborne: Finding Foxtrot Alpha Mike by Jonathan Rotondo 9781773100630
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53A magical, airborne story of father and son.Jonathan Rotondo was 28 when his father, Antonio, died. Numb with grief, Rotondo decided to track down the object that had once given his father so much... -
Donald Andrus: The Shape of Desire by Ihor Holubizky 9781773104102
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.34The art of Donald Andrus defies categorization. Although principally known for his abstract paintings, Andrus has, throughout his career, combined his first love - drawing - with a deep engagement... -
Ritual Lights by Joelle Barron 9781773100180
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Longlisted, Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardOn "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould":"The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an... -
Tales from Under the Rim: The Marketing of Tim Hortons by Ron Buist
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30A National Bestseller. Now available in paperback. "On a Rrrroll! You may not be familiar with Ron Buist, but you know his handiwork." - The Ottawa Citizen. Tales from Under the Rim is a... -
Sisters of Grass by Theresa Kishkan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.06In her vibrant first novel, Sisters of Grass, Theresa Kishkan weaves a tapestry of the senses through the touchstones of a young woman's life. Anna is preparing an exhibit of textiles reflecting... -
Ben Woolfitt: Rhythms & Series by Ben Woolfitt 9781773102269
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £21.88Ben Woolfitt begins each day by drawing. Using graphite, silver and metal leaf and selected objects for frottage, Woolfitt plumbs the depths of his unconscious as he draws on each page of his books... -
Otolith Emily Nilsen 9780864929624
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Winner, 2018 League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardLonglisted, 2018 League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial AwardOtolith - the ear stone - is a series of bones that help us to... -
Blood Root by Jessica Hiemstra 9781773104225
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.92Reflecting on a dual upbringing in two villages, Bobcaygeon (Canada/Turtle Island) and Badela (Sierra Leone), Jessica Hiemstra's new collection of poems delves into her relationship with home. In... -
Hurricane Pilot: The Wartime Letters of W.O. Harry L. Gill, D.F.M., 1940-1943 by Brent Wilson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45Harry L. Gill, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 at the age of 18. During his short but adventure-filled career, he flew a Hurricane fighter bomber over... -
Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets by David Eso 9780864923844
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.83Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary poems from more than 120 Canadian poets, including...