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Drawing Down a Daughter by Claire Harris
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25Claire Harris has always been a formidable force and now her celebrated book-length poem is available once again in a new edition. In this dream-collage, which cuts across the boundaries of prose and... -
The Bitter Harvest of War: New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917 by Andrew Theobald
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada -- as a nation -- was born on its slopes. But the cost was tremendous: 10,000 Canadians were killed,... -
Random Illuminations: Conversations with Carol Shields Eleanor Wachtel 9780864925015
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (and some correspondence), writer-broadcaster Eleanor... -
David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East by David Diviney
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €31.89David Askevold broke into the art scene when his work was included in the seminal exhibition Information at New York's MOMA 1970, which cemented Conceptualism as a genre. He later became recognized... -
Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada Jim Shedden 9781773102030
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €20.94Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture's stories, its memory. MOMENTS OF PERCEPTION is a landmark book... -
Generations: The Sobey Family and Canadian Art Sarah Milroy 9781773102689
RRP: €51.16Booksplease Price: €36.02Over three generations, the Sobey family of Nova Scotia has demonstrated their discerning and enthusiastic commitment to Canadian art. Accompanying a major exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art... -
The Glassblowers by George Sipos
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, the wet leaves of fall are described in language that... -
The Top 100 Canadian Albums Bob Mersereau 9780864925206
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.73Back by popular demand, here is the encore edition of the ultimate guide to Canadian music, featuring the best albums that Canadian musicians ever produced and some new interviews not included in the... -
Hiking Trails of Ottawa, the National Capital Region, and Beyond by Michael Haynes
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €14.91Collected here, for the first time, are the best hiking routes in the National Capital Region, including Gatineau Park, Ottawa's Greenbelt, brand new trails at Manitou Mountain, and Eastern Ontario's... -
Waterfalls of New Brunswick by Nicholas Guitard
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.37Who would have guessed that a small province could hold so many falls? Overall, New Brunswick is home to more than 1,000 waterfalls - some remote, and some surprisingly accessible. Spilling over an... -
Hidden River Poems by Allan Cooper
RRP: €4.75Booksplease Price: €3.99An early collection from the author of The Pearl Inside the Body.About the AuthorBorn in Moncton, New Brunswick, and a graduate of Mount Allison University, Cooper is a full-time poet, was the editor... -
She Claire Harris 9780864922946
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25She is a complex novel in poetry and prose poetry, crafted with visual form and eloquent language. Penelope-Marie Lancet, an immigrant from Trinidad who lives in Calgary, yearns for a child to the... -
Brush and Trunks by Liliane Welch
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.44Welch's book reveals a deep understanding of the Maritime countryside and man's relationship with nature.Book InformationISBN 9780864920119Author Liliane WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 61Imprint... -
I & I by George Elliott Clarke
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.37Shortlisted, Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry and Dartmouth Book AwardIn the "Boogie Nights" era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the... -
Poisonous If Eaten Raw by Alyda Faber
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45In this experimental long poem sequence, Alyda Faber transforms the portrait poem into runic shapes, ice shelved, sculpted, louvered on a winter shoreline. Twenty years after her mother's death,... -
Seventeen Odes by Patrick White
RRP: €4.75Booksplease Price: €3.99A collection of 17 Horatian odes, the beautifully crafted and eloquent chapbook Seventeen Odes testifies to Patrick White's development as a poet.Book InformationISBN 9780864920140Author Patrick... -
Karenin Sings the Blues by Sharon McCartney
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45Karenin Sings the Blues is a meditation sparked by the actors in Tolstoy's 19th-century masterpiece, Anna Karenina. Entering this famous saga of derailed love, McCartney explores the repercussions... -
The Program by Megan Fennya Jones
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102528Author Megan Fennya JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Goose Lane... -
Outdoor Cooking from Tide's Table by Ross Mavis
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45This book presents delicious dishes cooked on the barbeque, unusual meals prepared by other outdoor methods, and treats to eat and drink before, during, and after the al fresco adventure. Recipes... -
On Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake by Gregor Craigie
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102061Author Gregor CraigieFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher... -
The M Poems by Elizabeth Gourlay
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.16Sparse and elegant poems by the author of Songs and Dances. A subtle rhythmic sense and distaste for redundancies characterize this volume, which will appeal to readers who appreciate lucid effects... -
The Iron Bridge by Anton Piatigorsky
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45Finalist, Danuta Gleed Literary AwardIn a bold, brilliant collection of stories, Dora Award-winning playwright Anton Piatigorsky delivers a superbly inspired inquiry into the early lives of the 20th... -
The Best of The Great Trail -- Volume 1: Newfoundland to Southern Ontario on the Trans Canada Trail by Michael Haynes 9781773100005
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €19.66See the beauty that Canada has to offer. Walking and hiking is a big Canadian pastime for people wanting exercise and fresh air.Here, at last, is the essential companion to the eastern part of... -
War on the Home Front: The Farm Diaries of Daniel MacMillan, 1914-1927 by Daniel MacMillan 9780864924513
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25Daniel MacMillan never saw the battlefields of Passchendaele or Vimy Ridge. A farmer in the tiny New Brunswick community of Williamsburg, he experienced the Great War entirely from the "home front."... -
Hiking Trails of Montreal and Beyond Michael Haynes 9780864926876
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.37Featuring 50 hiking routes within 150 km of Montreal, this handy guide explores trails within the city and in the adjacent Laurentides, Lanaudiere, Monteregie, and Cantons-de-l'Est regions. Michael... -
Underwater Carpentry by Brian Bartlett 9780864921338
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.34Bartlett takes his readers on a meditative journey in which he encapsulates the complexity of human experience. Delighting in humour and the play of words, he induces his readers to take a new look... -
Hiking Trails of New Brunswick, 4th Edition Marianne Eiselt 9781773100128
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €18.20An Atlantic BestsellerNew Brunswick offers a dizzying array of hiking challenges, spectacular views, and amazing wildlife. In this expanded and updated fourth edition of Hiking Trails of New... -
Everyone at This Party by Tanja Bartel 9781773101255
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45In this debut collection of possibilities, everything is a noisemaker.In Tanja Bartel's riveting poetry debut, the bucolic Vancouver suburbs clash with the interpersonal. The reader dips into the... -
The Many Deaths of George Robertson George Little 9780864921246
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.34George Little examines the lives of parents, siblings, friends, and politicians, offering fleeting glimpses into the moral complexity of contemporary relationships. In the title story, a man... -
Poems: New and Selected by Fred Candelaria 9780864920294
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.16A rigourous selection from Candelaria's earlier books in addition to substantial recent work, this volume provides the first single-volume edition drawn from the full range of this highly inventive... -
The Golden Thread Ann Copeland 9780864921598
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.79Nominated for the 1990 Governor General's Award, The Golden Thread is a collection of linked stories that introduce readers to the memorable Sister Claire Delaney.About the AuthorAnn Copeland, a... -
After Six Days by Keith Harrison 9780864920706
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.16Set in the colourful, intense, competitive Montreal of the 1980s, Harrison's novel explores the efforts of two couples to reach beyond the boundaries of self. Their tangled relationships hang in... -
Word, Woman and Place: Poems, 1971-1985 by Dermot McCarthy 9780864920515
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.16Word, Woman and Place is McCarthy's fourth collection of poetry. Selections from his earlier works are gathered together with recent poems into this powerful new book which demonstrates McCarthy's... -
Reckonings: Poems 1979-85 by M. Travis Lane 9780864920713
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.16Lane is allusive, intricate, and technically ranging, while the abiding impulses of her work remain spirituously generous and affirmative. Few contemporary poets have her command of tone, able to... -
Tiger in The Skull: New and Selected Poems, 1959-1985 by Douglas Lochhead 9780864920720
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.34Tiger in the Skull makes available for the first time in a single volume the range, substance, and variety of Lochhead's work.About the AuthorIn the spring of 2001, Douglas Lochhead received the... -
In the Flight of Stars by Dorothy Roberts 9780864920973
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.45In the Flight of Stars, Dorothy Roberts's seventh book of poetry and her first in more than a decade, is - in her own words - " a collection of latter-life poems," the mature work of a firm... -
Je t'aime Cowboy by T.F. Rigelhof 9780864921444
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.79In Montreal, sex and politics frequently mix, and T.F. Rigelhof's stories are sexy and political. His contemporary cowboys -- immature, vulnerable men hoping to achieve masculinity by wearing cowboy... -
John Thompson: Collected Poems and Translations Peter Sanger 9780864921451
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.61During John Thompson's sadly attenuated lifetime, he completed only two volumes of poetry. At the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets and Stilt Jack (published posthumously), but seldom has... -
Between Families and the Sky by Alan Cumyn 9780864921697
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25A father's untimely death, a gothic grandfather who falls in love with his son's beautiful widow, a mysterious girl, a rogue golfer, and the watchful eyes of two young people trying to overcome the... -
With All Her Might: The Life of Gertrude Harding, Militant Suffragette by Gretchen Wilson 9780864921840
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.25Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and, when her sister moved to London in 1912, Harding...