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Cole Blackwater's life isn't what it used to be. Once a political superstar within Ottawa's environmental movement, he now runs a nearly defunct conservation strategy consulting firm that distinctly lacks a paying client. His ex-wife loathes him for a scandalous affair that ended their marriage, he feels he's failing his eight-year-old daughter as a father, and he's turning far too often to the bottle to solve his problems.When Peggy McSorlie,...

Anna Gareau arrives in Victoria BC with two things to hide an illegal pistol and the ability to read people s pasts by touching certain objects After a woman is drowned in the pool at her hotel Anna must lie to protect her secrets and is dragged into a terrifying murder investigation Colette Kostyna the victim s best friend joins forces with Anna to expose the murderer While the events surrounding the drowning are mysterious the events occurri...

As relevant and engaging today as when they were written Henry Kreisel s stories make readers hold their breath with anticipation until the finely crafted final sentence "The Almost Meeting and other stories " is part of NeWest s Landmark Editions Series This masterful collection of Kreisel s short fiction was written between 1954 and 1980 These stories are intelligent literary reflections on what it is to be a citizen of a Canada and of the w...

Frances, a manager for a large corporation, appears to be very successful. But Frances finds her piece of mind unravelling as she becomes overwhelmed by the destructive bureaucratic nature of the work world she lives in. Frances starts to lose small body parts, hears mysterious Leider music booming throughout her workplace at random times during the day, and obsesses over the caymans that guard her office building. Meanwhile, her alter-ego has...

After collapsing from stress in a posh Vancouver restaurant, Ted Ferguson decides to abandon his workaholic lifestyle and move his family to the secluded back roads of Northern Alberta, where electricity and indoor plumbing are a luxury and surviving another winter is a blessing. With his wife and young son in tow, Ted rebuilds his life surrounded by a close-knit community while encountering, among other unique characters, a vengeful dentist, ...

Playwright Stewart Lemoine combines drama with hilarity in a play that tells a speculative story of legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt's trip to Edmonton in 1913, where she performed before two packed houses at the Empire Theatre.

The true story of Canadian bush pilot Don "Smokey" Patry is a succession of brave take offs daring landings and high intensity turbulence every minute in between Whether performing an emergency landing in darkness in Canada s northern wilderness rebuilding his plane s engine with a rusty file or zigzagging a bomber plane across the Atlantic Ocean during World War II there was never a dull moment in Patry s career "Smoke in the Cockpit" is Cana...

Transferred between foster homes for most of his life twelve year old Corey Brinkman has developed a bad habit of running away His new foster parents Wilma and Ben Howard are determined to make their home his for life but old habits are hard to break Wilma takes Corey to the Calgary Zoo for his annual visit with his birth mother despite her discomfort about Tina Brinkman and the fever Corey is pretending not to have When Corey goes missing at ...

The gripping story of the 1997 race from Dyea, Alaska to Dawson City, that re-enacted the Gold Rush. John Firth went in search of the experience that his grandfather, one of the original stampeders, had on his quest for gold. Firth tells his own story alongside reminiscences from his grandfather.

Told from the point of view of an Italian Canadian child, "The Wheel Keeper " centres on the grandmother’s forced emigration from Italy as a young unwed mother, and the building of a hydroelectric dam which will flood the British Columbia village in which the story is set.

This selection of new works is a wacky, quirky, humorous, dark, uplifting, mysterious, and, above all, highly entertaining collection from fresh new talents. NeXtFest Anthology features five plays from the first five years of The Syncrude NeXt Generation Arts Festival.

Transcanada Letters by Roy Kiyooka was a landmark when it first appeared in 1975. Almost thirty years later, it remains one of the most remarkable literary texts in Canada. At once a document and a creative work, personal meditation and cultural manifesto, it engages the reader with Kiyooka's intimate voice speaking through his letters to family, as well as friends, many of them writers and visual artists.

Whipstock" is a humorous tall tale exploring the literal, metaphorical and narrative links between pregnancy and Alberta’s petroleum industry.

One day in 1897, as the huge carnival big-top swooshed upward, a child came flying out of the folds of the tent and landed softly in the straw on the ground. This is Slip's story, and skilfully illustrates the curiosity towards the human condition that exists today as it did at the height of the turn-of-the-century freak-show.

The three plays included in this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak. They range from a village idiot in a French Canadian hamlet to arranged marriages to a multiracial relationship that is unhinged once he tells his parents that he is 'living with a white girl'.

Before her death Rubis Caillou Morin sends her son west to help her brothers settle new land Raoul carries with him a shadowy understanding of why his mother died and a red book filled with her wisdom and love The book sees Raoul through life and helps his great granddaughter find the truth about healers Rubis and the loyalty responsibility and consequence that rules her family

When the scalped remains of a Jane Doe are discovered within the rubble of a demolished house, Detective Jake Fry is assigned the task of hunting down Calgary's most disturbed murderer. Working against a rising body count and police department politics, Fry must relentlessly pursue a murderer with an agenda no one but he can comprehend.During Calgary's first economic boom, people flocked from all corners of the country to the city rumoured to ...

When a series of murders threatens the lives of an entire community in Vancouver, RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore and Inspector Coswell team up once again to solve the case. What begins as an array of hate crimes suddenly culminates into a conspiracy against an American politician, and the lines between Canada and the United States are blurred as suspicions rise from both sides. To solve this case, both detectives must look beyond the powers of o...

The inquiry into the killing of Leo LaChance left many unanswered questions. Journalist Connie Sampson examines the life and death of Leo LaChance, his brother David's quest for the truth, and the story of the inquiry that followed Leo's death.

Crisp confronts the unspeakable parts of memory, meditating on characters caught in isolation and struggling to make sense of grief, disappointment, and the occasional dinner party gone wrong. The characters in Crisp's stories don't always make sound decisions: a grieving widow pursues a priest, an unhappy wife whittles her husband to bits, and a nostalgic man has a one-night stand with a whale trainer. Ranging from the mystical to the eccentr...