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Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Set in South Africa before the adoption of apartheid, Alan Paton's classic novel presents a family and a nation struggling to embrace change and resist the harmful effects of violence, apathy, and inequality. This new edition gathers a range of essential critical commentary on the work and features an introduction by scholar Harold Bloom. Paton... more...
Rewriting History
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 93.60Peter Carey is one of the most richly awarded and critically acclaimed novelists of the present day. Most of his fictions relate to questions of Australian history and identity. Rewriting History argues that taken together Careys novels make up a more...
Chronicles of a Midlife Crisis
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 15.00There are two sides to every breakup. Lucy had no clue that her husband of sixteen years was about to bolt. Now she's dealing with shock, loneliness, and girlfriends who alternately pity her and provoke her. She also-unbelievably-is apparently competing with her own teenage daughter for a new man's attention. Trent pictured freedom, self-discovery...and... more...
The Ivory Thought
University of Ottawa Press 2008; US$ 19.99If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918?2000). Numerous eminent scholars and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as ?the world?s most Canadian poet? (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy The Last Canadian Poet (1999). In The Ivory Thought:... more...
Mistletoe and Mayhem
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 14.00At the Pennyfoot Hotel, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff are hustling and bustling more than ever. Cecily's dear friend Madeline arrives with her new baby and adds a kissing bough to the holiday decorations. But after a footman and a new maid are seen kissing under the bough and turn up dead, the staff is convinced a serial killer is spending... more...
The Semiconducting Dictionary (Our Strindberg)
ECW Press 2010; US$ 12.95A playful, feminist revisioning of a historical literary figure, this part poetry collection, part biography reimagines August Strindbergthe misanthropic, misogynistic, hotly debated master of modern theater and a contemporary of Ibsenas a woman playwright living as a man. In mixing prose and poetry of various forms from different historical... more...
L' environnement traductionnel
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1992; US$ 26.25La traduction est vraiment l'outil indispensable du monde moderne et de la modernité. Mais on sait qu'elle demande du temps, beaucoup de temps, trop de temps parfois! Il s'agit alors de rationaliser le travail indispensable du traducteur, de créer un environnement qui lui permette de mieux faire face à sa tâche d'être... more...
A Studied Death
Dundurn 1996; US$ 11.99While the students blame the lack of security on campus for Sophias murder, Rosalie investigates Sophias life in search of a motive. more...
The Self-Completing Tree
Dundurn 1999; US$ 16.95This definitive collection from the Grand Dame of Canadian letters charts the fascinating domains of her own life and the universal struggles we all share. more...
In This Poem I Am
Dundurn 2007; US$ 15.99Editor Harold Rhenisch brings together a collection that captures the grand style and thematic strength of poet Robin Skelton. more...









