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There'S More by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27In there’s more, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike takes on the rich concepts of home and belonging: home lost and regained, home created with others and with the land, home as “anywhere we find something... -
Mappae Mundi: Representing the World and its Inhabitants in Texts, Maps, and Images in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Michael Fox 9781551951874
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £23.27This catalogue showcases some of the treasures of the University of Alberta's Map and Special Collections, as well as other U of A Libraries, particularly in terms of resources to aid in the study of... -
What the Crow Said by Robert Kroetsch 9780888643032
Booksplease Price: £18.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Alcuin Society Citations for Excellence in Book Design in Canada - 2nd, Prose Fiction 1999.Book... -
You Might be Sorry You Read This by Michelle Poirier Brown
Booksplease Price: £17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126037Author Michelle Poirier BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 80 -
Gospel Drunk by Aidan Chafe
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125467Author Aidan ChafeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Deriving by Jennifer Bowering Delisle
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125474Author Jennifer Bowering DelisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 76< -
Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real by Michael Crummey 9781772124576
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772124576Author Michael CrummeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
Massacre Street by Paul William Zits 9780888646750
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Merging poetry and historical records, Zits masterfully (re)creates a poetic view of the Frog Lake Massacre of April 2, 1885. His collage and cut-up techniques challenge the histories penned by the... -
Contested Classrooms: Education, Globalization, and Democracy in Alberta by Trevor W. Harrison 9780888643155
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Education has become a battlefield, the classroom the arena where the contest is fought. The 1997 Ontario teachers' strike, the federal government's Millennium Scholarship, and a wave of protests... -
The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands by Sheila McManus 9780888644343
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888644343Author Sheila McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint -
Retiring the Crow Rate: A Narrative of Political Management by Arthur Kroeger 9780888645135
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.30"The Holy Crow"...How do you change one of Canada's most politically sensitive policies? Retiring the Crow Rate is an exacting study in the process of changing an entrenched public policy that many... -
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of AUPresses Book, Jacket, & Journal Show - Poetry and Literature 2020 (United States) and Trade Non-Fiction... -
Nahanni Journals: R.M. Patterson's 1927-1929 Journals by Raymond Murray Patterson 9780888644770
Booksplease Price: £31.48When you cross an Oxford graduate with a young man seeking gold and adventure in the remote wilderness, the result is Nahanni Journals. In this fascinating account of Raymond Patterson, a Londoner... -
There are Not Enough Sad Songs by Marita Dachsel 9781772124521
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95There is beauty in the teacup like dresses requiring crinoline or beaded purses too small to carry anything but anger. - from "Inheritance" Marita Dachsel's third poetry collection explores... -
The Hornbooks of Rita K by Robert Kroetsch 9780888643728
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Where has Rita gone and who is reconstructing her... -
Apostrophes VII: Sleep, You, a Tree by E. D. Blodgett 9780888645548
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Apostrophe 1. Rhet. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his discourse, and turns to address pointedly some person or thing, either present or absent; an exclamatory... -
Welcome to the Anthropocene by Alice Major 9781772123685
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question-"Where do we fit in the universe?"-is made more urgent by the ecological... -
That Audible Slippage by Margaret Christakos 9781772127393
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27That Audible Slippage invokes a poetics of active listening and environmental sound to investigate the ways in which we interact with the world, balancing perception and embodiment alongside a... -
An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety by Cherie Dimaline
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126822Author Cherie DimalineFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint -
Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home by Esi Edugyan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean... -
Abecedarium by Dennis Cooley 9780888646453
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95would you believe me when i make consorts of alphabet runaways & stayathomes i have rounded up where they wandered all over the page Dennis Cooley masterfully extends the genre of the abecedary to... -
the bentleys by Dennis Cooley 9780888644701
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel As for Me and My House. Celebrating 'love in a dry... -
Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father by Heather O'Neill 9781772123777
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Cover Design of the Year | Alberta Book Publishing Awards, Book Publishers Association of Alberta... -
You Look Good for Your Age: An Anthology by Rona Altrows
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125320Author Rona AltrowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint < -
Standard Candles by Alice Major 9781772120912
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major's earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle wonders in form and subject. Her voice resonates... -
Sleeping in Tall Grass by Richard Therrien 9781772121223
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95"My emptiness will not be frenetic with the friction of my father's silences but still as the unmarked graves of his many forgotten selves" -From "Salt" A cycle of poems, Sleeping in Tall... -
Boundaries, and Other Fictions by Robert Rawdon Wilson 9780888643223
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Boundaries, and Other Fictions is a collection of smart, sophisticated stories that test the limits of genre and form. Wilson spans the fictional distance from the fantastic to the utterly personal,... -
Sawbones Memorial by Sinclair Ross 9780888643544
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60After practicing medicine for forty-five years, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter is retiring. It's April 1948, and the long-awaited hospital in Upward, Saskatchewan is about to open. Although the war is over... -
Whir of Gold by Sinclair Ross 9780888643551
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Sonny, an aspiring musician, and Mad, a young woman down on her luck, struggle to survive in the mean streets of Montreal. Introduction by Nat Hardy.About the AuthorSinclair Ross was born in... -
A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism by Tomson Highway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61"Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only..." From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of... -
Al Rashid Mosque: Building Canadian Muslim Communities by Earle H. Waugh 9781772123395
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.84Al Rashid Mosque, Canada's first and one of the earliest in North America, was erected in Edmonton in the depth of the Depression of the 1930s. Over time, the story of this first mosque, which served... -
Words of My Roaring by Robert Kroetsch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60"I was electioneering. By God, people were listening. People were looking my way. And some joker with his arse begining to ache from sitting too long on a nail had to clear his throat and chip in,... -
Gabriel Dumont in Paris by Jordan Zinovich 9780888643216
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27The troubles of 1885 are a topic of enduring fascination. Gabriel Dumont in Paris is a fictional retelling of the events leading up to the Northwest Rebellion, focussing on the thoughts and actions... -
The Office Tower Tales by Alice Major 9780888645029
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek... -
Next Time There's a Pandemic by Vivek Shraya
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126051Author Vivek ShrayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
The COVID Journals: Health Care Workers Write the Pandemic by Shane Neilson
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.66Early in the pandemic, medical personnel were our front lines. What was that like? Through stories, art, and poetry, Canadian health-care workers from across the country recount their experiences of... -
The Home Place: Essays on Robert Kroetsch's Poetry by Dennis Cooley 9781772121193
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £31.09"He wants to sit and visit at the kitchen table, and he can hardly wait to get on the road again." -From Chapter 1 Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's most important writers, was a fierce regionalist... -
Little Wildheart by Micheline Maylor 9781772122336
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor's poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love that has passed, the... -
Blue Portugal and Other Essays by Theresa Kishkan 9781772125993
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125993Author Theresa KishkanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
A Map of the Island by Nigel Darbasie 9780888643711
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60A Map of the Island is an extended poetic meditation upon a boy's youth in Trinidad. In these verses we hear the cadences of the West Indies spoken from the distance of the Canadian prairies.About...