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The Wild Hunt

By Emma Seckel - Published 2022

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On a remote Scottish island in 1949, Iain MacTavish and Leigh Welles have returned for different but equally tragic reasons. Iain has survived his ...Read Review

Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan

By Ruth Gilligan - Published 2016 Published 2017

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Literary Short Stories

What’s nu? Irish Jews. Who knew? Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan chronicles the history of Jews in Ireland through three separate ...Read Review

Us Conductors

By Sean Michaels - Published 2014 Published 2015

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Biographical Fiction Literary

Sean Michaels’ debut novel has already won Canada’s 2014 Scotiabank Giller prize and deservedly so. It is a fictionalised account of the life ...Read Review

The Celestials

By Karen Shepard - Published 2013

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In 1870, 75 young Chinese men board a train from California to North Adams, Massachusetts, to take jobs in Calvin Sampson’s shoe factory. He’...Read Review