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***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA - SHORTLIST*** When Sebastian goes undercover in the theatre to find a killer, things get... dramatic. In Three for Trinity, the third book in the Sebastian Synard Mystery series, offbeat humour meets suspense as a nefarious crime unfolds. Trying to run a tour business in COVID times is tough, especially when you're home- schooling a teenager. But with the creation of the Atlantic bu...

Celebrating seasonal Newfoundland ingredients in the creation of Jewish fusion cuisine: classic North American delicatessen recipes alongside North African flavours. An exploration of Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Newfoundland cuisine showcasing local ingredients, fermentation, and family lore. Local foraging and harvesting make possible the recreation of family recipes that have crossed oceans and survived for generations. Jewish cuisine can be f...

Otherwise grossly unremarkable is the record of the near total destruction of one woman's physical and emotional self from misdiagnosis to stage three diagnosis, through treatment after treatment, and onward to recovery and survivorship. At only 35 years of age, Ashleigh Matthews found a dense mass in her breast that was eventually diagnosed as stage-three, grade-three multifocal invasive mammary carcinoma: breast cancer. This memoir tells the...

Songs in the Sea is an exciting story of a young whale's journey across an entire ocean alone with only one piece of advice to keep him going: "Follow the north star". Oh no! The loud traffic of ships sailing on the ocean sunk under the waves, now Little Whale is confused! With the noise all around him, he has lost track of Mama Whale's and lost his way song on their migration north. How will he ever find her, and his way home, again? Getting ...

The interconnected stories of Vigil are packed with uncomfortable characters caught in situations of complex morality, with each piece both a chapter in the overall story and also a stand-alone investigation of the concepts of addiction, crime, redemption, and complicity. Vigil is a collection of interconnected short stories set in the fictional, ex-urban community of Grace Harbour, a town that rests between the ocean and the wilderness. A bea...

Follow the adventures of Luna and a cast of ghosts and folkloric beings, including a redemption-seeking Viking, a friendly whale, and a murderous bog monster! Luna is eleven years old and obsessed with adventure. While visiting the island of Newfoundland, Luna finally has a chance to explore a setting as big as her imagination, but her father, a roving journalist and widower, doesn't want her straying too far. Ignoring his caution, Luna sets o...

Romancing History?: Wayne Johnston and "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" closely re-examines how Wayne Johnston's seminal historical novel combines fact and fiction to shape our perception of the truth. First published in 2000, Wayne Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an enduring contribution to the literature of Newfoundland and Labrador. In Romancing History?, Stan Dragland examines the novel's indelible portrait of its central ch...

With razor-sharp acuity and snappy language, Dayboil centres on a community in crisis--a kitchen-table comedy that quickly takes a dark turn. Four middle-aged women meet at Kathy's house in rural Newfoundland for their weekly cup of tea and gossip when tragic news disrupts their usual banter: Kathy's husband has killed himself. Abruptly, the threads that hold their comfortable community life together begin to snap, and they find themselves exp...

A rare new book of verse from one of the most recognized and distinguished names in Newfoundland poetry and drama, Agnes Walsh. This exciting new collection by a beloved Newfoundland poet at the height of her craft focuses on nature and women, with strong imagery and an innate sense of line. It considers the permeable barrier between inside and outside, between self and world. These deceptively simple poems convey wisdom and a profound depth o...

This raw and intimate memoir takes us inside the mind of a father who embarked on a ten-month journey through rugged and remote terrain in British Columbia in search of his missing son. After setting out on a hike on Frosty Mountain on October 10, 2020, twenty-five-year-old Jordan Naterer disappeared. By the time authorities were alerted and the search was underway, the season's first snow storm arrived at higher elevations, concealing the rou...

Steeped in Newfoundland's unique folklore and superstitions, A Seal of Salvage is a coming-of-age novel about unrequited love between adolescent boys that slips between history and mythology. Set in 1950s rural outport Newfoundland and blending historical fiction with magic realism, A Seal of Salvage follows orphan Oliver Brown's coming of age as a queer outsider. Oliver's life in the small community of Salvage is overshadowed by lingering rum...

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***2021 BMO WINTERSET AWARD - FINALIST*** ***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: ALISTAIR MACLEOD PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION - SHORTLIST*** ***2022 NL BOOK AWARDS, FICTION - FINALIST*** ***2023 NL READS - FINALIST*** ***TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2021, THE TELEGRAM*** Warm, funny, and stylistically savvy, these stories follow an interlocking set of characters and the people they love. Characters weave their way in and out of The Love Olympics, a collection of short...

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Award recognition for My Indian ***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD - SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD - LONGLIST*** ***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION - SHORTLIST*** ***2022 IPPY AWARDS: MULTICULTURAL FICTION: JUV/YA - SILVER*** Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian continues the story of Mi'kmaw guide Sylvester Joe, whose traditional name is Suliewey, as he seeks out the last remaining Beothu...

Award recognition for Two for the Tablelands: ***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA 2021 - SHORTLIST*** ***ATLANTIC BOOKS TODAY STAFF PICK 2021 - SHORTLIST*** Award Recognition for Three for Trinity: ***THE HOWARD ENGEL AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL SET IN CANADA 2022 - SHORTLIST*** The fifth book in the Sebastian Synard mystery series takes our intrepid tour guide/private detective on a jaunt across Newfoundland and into L...

Award recognition for book one of the Cupids trilogy, A Roll of the Bones ***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***SILVER, THE MIRAMICHI READER'S THE VERY BEST! COVER ART/DESIGN AWARD*** This dramatic conclusion to a trilogy foregrounds the experiences of women settlers in North America as they grapple with notions of homeland, colonization, and sense of belonging. A Company of Rogues completes the Cupids trilogy, moving the action back to the New Fo...

Incorporating elements of creative nonfiction and oral history, Let It All Fall: Underground Music and the Culture of Rebellion in Newfoundland, 1977-95 is a collection of interview-based first-person monologues that describe the experiences of a generation of independent musicians, artists, and activists. Beginning in the late 1970s, a new raw sound began to emerge from the basements and garages of St. John's which, by the mid-'90s, had grown...

This defiant and unapologetically sardonic debut novel explores the collision between fear and longing. Eyes in Front When Running is a quick-witted family drama that uses humour to tackle heavy topics, such as the crumbling of a relationship, miscarriage, abortion, infertility, and postpartum depression. When Cleo Best moves back in with her parents after the collapse of her relationship, a series of bad decisions turn her life upside down, b...

The Gull Workshop is a collection of stories that features a unique combination of thematic seriousness and comic style. The characters in The Gull Workshop are often in search of something--call it authenticity, a basis for living a meaningful life, or leave it unnamed. However it's defined, these characters are unlikely to find it. This is a book about the comically fruitless quest for meaning and authenticity, the thirteen stories are set i...