Alice Charles has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She’s never had a boyfriend and doesn’t know how to do laundry. She joins the Film Society and hangs out in the library. She drifts away from boring Bethany, her best friend from high school, and starts to trail after Allegra, the caffeine-addicted, dish-throwing artist in the dorm room next to hers. And, most of all, she thinks about how she’s sti ...
Biology is not Dree’s thing. Equally heinous are English, Social Studies, her sister and mother, not to mention Edmonton in general. Toronto is where she belongs – specifically the upcoming Renegade Craft Fair where, finally, her crafts will be appreciated. Escape is imminent: on her 15th birthday, she will get the special fund her father promised, and the day after that she’ll be on Westjet Flight 233 to Toronto. I ...
Hoping to erase her unhappy old life, Hazel jumps in her beat-up old car and speeds away. When she pulls up to the Evening and Morning Star Trailer Park, where nothing turns into even more of nothing, she decides it just might be the new life she's looking for. At the centre of this new life is King, a motorcycle-riding, hard-drinking, guitar-playing kind of guy. Hazel loves him to death. He spends his days fixing cars, while Hazel spends ...
'Birrell has a grand eye for the small detail that is the hallmark of a well-made story.' – The Toronto StarKleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: populated as they are with lives both ordinary and extraordinary, Heather Birrell's stories pull at the sinews of the strange until the strangeness shapes itself into something familiar. At the same time, they mould the day-to-day into something new and wholly ...
Amsterdam is ranked as Europe’s eighth most popular tourist destination.Includes brand-new stories by: Michael Berg, Anneloes Timmerije, Murat Isik, Rene Appel, Josh Pachter, Simon De Waal, Hanna Bervoets, Karin Amatmoekrim, Christine Otten, Mensje van Keulen, Max van Olden, Theo Capel, Loes Den Hollander, Herman Koch, Abdelkader Benali, and Walter Van Den Berg.The following contributors are based domestically: Maria de Bruyn (Chapel Hill, NC).W ...
The Canadian Noir Series titles, Montreal & Toronto have done very well for us and we're delighted to finally add another major Canadian city to the series.Features brand-new stories by: Linda L. Richards, Timothy Taylor, Sheena Kamal, Robin Spano, Carleigh Baker, Sam Wiebe, Dietrich Kalteis, Nathan Ripley, Yasuko Thanh, Kristi Charish, Don English, Nick Mamatas, S.G. Wong, and R.M. Greenaway.The following contributors are based domesti ...
Yassin Adnan is a well-respected, award-winning Arabic poet, fiction writer, and journalistAdnan's debut novel, Hot Maroc , was long-listed for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (also known as the Arabic Booker).Adnan has hosted a weekly TV show for over ten years on Moroccan television. ...
Susie Bright has published numerous books as both an author and editor with both large & small publishers, including six national bestsellersShe has spoken & performed at universities across the country–UC Berkeley, Univ. of Colorado, Cornell, Florida State, Ohio State, Yale, Univ. of Indiana, Univ. of North Carolina, Harvard, Brown, Amherst, Smith College, etc.Bright has also spoken and performed at venues including 92nd St. Y in New Yo ...
