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The Devil You Know is the follow-up volume to Farrell’s critically acclaimed debut collection, Sugar Bush & Other Stories. These stories deal with sex, love, work, birth, and death in alternately moving, shocking, funny, and at times devastating ways. Whether these...
Toy Gun continues the exploration of character and fate on the streets of Vancouver that began with the novel Stupid Crimes (1992) and continued in Krekshuns (1995). Written in the style of the “hard-boiled” detective thriller,Toy Gun is very much a literary treatment...
Kaspoit! puts speculative illustration to the most profuse series of crimes ever to take place on Canadian soil. Set in the lower mainland of Vancouver, the time is now—criminals are brazen, cops are cynical—and no one is trying to solve the disappearance of dozens of...
Winner of the W.O. Mitchell/City of Calgary Award A debut collection, these stories are set in the corporeal world of adult endeavour: the mall, the office, the subdivision. It’s these settings that W. Mark Giles exploits—locking his sights on eerily familiar...
When jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s were gettin’ down, when things were really cookin’ they’d say, Yeah, make it tight like that. It meant things were good, as good as they could get. It’s a good thing in fiction, too. The stories in Jim Christy’s latest collection...
Valery the Great is a crackling, electric collection of dark humour that follows the bizarre and beautiful lives of its protagonists. Sometimes sweet and gentle, sometimes sharply sarcastic, the unique narrative voices in this collection are always powerfully...
Five Little Bitches chronicles the rise and fall of the all-woman band, Wet Leather. Each of the women is plagued by her own unique demons, but their devotion to music and the punk lifestyle keeps them pushing on. As the band progresses, they tour Canadian, American and...
Best of 2010 Pick, Uptown Magazine Meet Walter Finch, an ungainly kid who survives his cloying suburban childhood to make it only as far as the local mall, where he rises through the ranks to become manager of a shoe store. Unlike his other childhood friends who either...
Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night. Raised in Montreal by a bagman for the Irish mob,Spat has fictionalized or ignored chunks of his life too painful to recall. A chance meeting with an old friend of his father’s in a bar on the...
Winner, 2011 ReLit Award From the author of Pontypool Changes Everything, Ravenna Gets is a new collection of “wheeled” stories that continue the author’s exploration of “apocalypse ?ction.” In a single convulsion of homicide, the population of Ravenna tries to erase...
Finalist, Books in Canada/Amazon.ca First Novel Award The Beautiful Dead End is a visceral crime thriller that takes the reader on an existential journey to the “other side” and almost back again. In a bizarre, shadowy interzone populated by disturbing characters, our...
Finalist, Trillium Book Award The stories in Animal depict people on the brink of major life change. Often at a crossroads they are oblivious to, Leggat?s characters seem to be captured in a cinematic slo-mo, teetering on the edge of something unknown, heroically...
Drinkin’ rye and water with Grandma. Guns in False Creek. Frat boy homies from the North Delta ghetto. Samuel L. Jackson. Phantom Lord & Metallica. A kid who’s got the hots for his mom… Hunh? That’s right. It’s all here in this collection of immediate, lean and visceral...
Longlisted for the ReLit Award (2005) Foozlers is a 24-hour “Odyssey” that runs a juggernaut through the high- and lowlands of Vancouver. Jerry Lowe is the reluctant driver of a getaway car for two sketchy junkies on the make. A pair of cops spend a shift wobbling on...
Pamela Stewart is a self-described ?literary proctologist,? and her writing often looks into places that people generally don?t want to look. The stories in Elysium are about the difficulties of life we all encounter as human beings, the fragility of life?the physical,...
Longlisted for the ReLit Award Editor's Pick, Vancouver Sun Dirtbags is a novel about reckoning?with one?s past, one?s choices, and one?s expectations for the future. Spider is a scrappy kid growing up in rural B.C., and when a tragic event causes her world to implode...
Finalist, ReLit Awards (shortlist) Black Rabbit & Other Stories is a debut collection of great intensity and versatility. The stories range from the fantastic to the gritty, from urban dystopias to worlds of dreamlike possibility. Even in their frequent explorations of...
Fiction Pick, Broken Pencil Magazine Suburban Pornography is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw and naked manner. The prose is stripped--minimalist, direct, urgent, unflinching. The stories revolve around ordinary characters and...
Longlisted for a ReLit Award (2007) Alcuin Society Citation for Excellence in Design The stories in Sugar Bush & Other Stories deal with gender relations, love, and sex in a frank way. Most of the pieces feature female protagonists who navigate their young adult years...
The Dreamlife of Bridges is the debut novel from Vancouver writer Robert Strandquist. Leo is a middle-aged, divorced handyman capable of mending almost anything outside of himself.The denial of his son’s death, and his inability to deal with his own pain, has rendered...
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