Janice Parker
The Buckshaw Chronicles: Volume One
The Buckshaw Chronicles: Volume One contains the first three novels by Canadian author Alan Bradley featuring the fascinating 11-year-old sleuth…
Beware This Boy
Beware This Boy is the second installment in the Detective Inspector Tom Tyler series from acclaimed author Maureen Jennings, internationally…
The Firebird
When art gallery assistant Nicola Marter takes hold of a small, carved bird, known only as the Firebird, she can…
The Deception of Livvy Higgs
“If there’s one thing life has taught me,” muses 80-year-old Livvy Higgs to herself as she catches her neighbour, Gen,…
The Sweet Girl
The Sweet Girl, Annabel Lyon’s follow up novel to her award winning 2011 novel, The Golden Mean, is a fast-moving,…
The Purchase
In the winter of 1798, Daniel Dickinson and his young family are cast out by the elders of their tightknit…
The Lost Souls of Angelkov
When Cossacks kidnap Countess Antonia Mitlovsky’s son, Misha, from the grounds of the Angelkov estate one snowy day in 1861,…
The Reinvention of Love
With The Reinvention of Love, award-winning Canadian poet and novelist Helen Humphreys has deftly married the elaborate, factual lives of…
Above All Things
Editors' choice
Canadian writer Tanis Rideout’s debut novel, Above All Things, is a beautifully written book mapping the distinct yet intertwined journeys…
The Tinsmith
At the battle of Antietam Creek, the bloodiest single-day battle of the American Civil War, Union surgeon Anson Baird gratefully…
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