General & literary fiction Books

What came first, the home or the desire to invade?A seasonedinvaderwith multiple home invasions undertheir belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a newgeneration of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals...

Based on actual events, this story is set in a newspaper office in Eastern Montana in 1926. A time when the American public was obsessed with newspaper horror stories of what most today would consider ordinary murders or other man-made catastrophes...

Book will have French flaps New title in Feminist Press's Amethyst Editions imprint: American LGBTQ+ books that present queer narratives beyond adolescent coming-out, curated by author and literary organizer Michelle Tea In some ways, this novel tells a...

*Captivating historical fiction set on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, spanning the 1860s to the 1940s, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping *Debut novelist with strong ties to the indie...

Set on a single day in 1927, My Red Heaven imagines a host of characters - some historic, some invented - crossing paths on the streets of Berlin. The subjects include Robert Musil, Otto Dix, Werner Heisenberg, Anita Berber, Vladimir Nabokov, Kthe...

WINNER of the LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE"This sun-and-salt-kissed coming-of-age story reads like a wry, honest chat with a close friend." -Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf AwarenessEvie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and baddest girl on the planet,...

The story can now be told.The shocking details of Caesar's visit and its effect on subsequent events have been protected by draconian nondisclosure agreements....until now.

In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalised as hysterics reveal what history ignored'Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?' wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts,...

A gorgeous fable of Earth's last two human inhabitants, and a girl's journey home.In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of...

A loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast that centers queer and trans charactersTrans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people wholove and accept him. Ten years after his exile from home, though, his sister asks him...

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One of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Espanol, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it. The stories shed light on the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and...

A teenage orphan's quest of self-discovery in Equitorial Guinea, and a "unique contribution to LGBTQ literature" (Kirkus Reviews)."Though I live a world away from Equatorial Guinea, I saw so much of myself in Okomo: a tomboy itching to be free and to...

A mixture of apocalypse, high-seas adventure, and otherworldliness, Her Death Was Also Water tells the story of seven people trying to survive on a small boat in a world completely transformed by an apocalyptic flood. Haunted by entwined pasts, the...

James Brandt didn't look back when he got away from his rural hometown as a teenager. Now he has returned to Kippen for the first time in twenty years because his cousin Tony has been found dead under the local bridge.The news that Tony has left him the...

In this anthology of microliterature over forty writers explore the theme of travel, from the confusing variety of toilets found around the world to adrenaline-inducing bus trips, the surprise child of a holiday romance, and a businessman's...

Ann Quin's wildest, funniest, freakiest, kinkiest, and best novel - a road-trip novel, a graphic novel, a spy novel, a Beat novel, an anti-novel - is available again, to inspire a new generation of mavericks.First published in 1972, Ann Quin's fourth and...

This rich, raw and urgent debut novel is a domestic noir of sex and survival set in Trinidad's capital.Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. A fashionable, mixed-race boutique manager who lives and works in Trinidad's capital city, Port of Spain, she is...

A virtuosic debut collection that roves across genres and styles, by a finalist for the Caine Prize.In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of...

Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I...

WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION Is it possible to make your own path in the world while upholding your family legacy? That's the question at the heart of this tender and poignant...

Revenge sometimes causes people to act blindly through anger, rather than reason. The characters in this devilishly delightful book are pushed to the point of no return and seek retribution. We meet an author taking part in a game show who will go to...

It's the most anticipated event of the decade: Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding and everyone is invited! After a wonderful day, Big Lou crashes back down to earth and finds that she is a victim of her own success. The lure of those famous bacon rolls is...

Spiritualist and extortionist Patrick Seton is coming up for trial. He's been accused of forgery, and suddenly West London's bachelors are all in a tizzy. Described by Evelyn Waugh as the 'cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark's clever and elegant...

A coming-of-age debut novel, by the mother of Zadie Smith, about a young Jamaican girl faced with the trauma of immigration, estrangement from her family, and the emotional upheaval of moving to London in the 1960s.The Day I Fell Off My Island tells the...

Number one New York Times bestselling author Victoria Schwab spins a dark, original tale about our world - full of life - a world that mirrors it - haunted by death - and the manor that stands between them. The Secret Garden meets Crimson Peak in this...

Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known...

**Winner, Aurealis Awards 2022, Best Fantasy Novel**Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher knows little about being a governess but she is skilled in botany and herbcraft, and perhaps more than...

The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard tells the story of one of the most celebrated names in Starfleet history. His extraordinary life and career makes for dramatic reading: court martials, unrequited love, his capture and torture at the hand of the...

A stunning novel about a community of parthenogenic women undersiege after the end of the world.In this visionary novel by Larissa Laiherfirst in sixteen yearsa community of parthenogenic women, sent into exileby patriarchal and corporate Salt...

June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack.In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could change the...

All over the world traditional tales were told at the fireside until their place came to be taken by books, newspapers, radio and television. A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald present an entertaining collection of the oral tales that have been passed down...

A young piper, Donald Peter (DP) Gillies, brought up in a remote community in the West Highlands, signs up to join the famous Lovat Scouts. He and his childhood friend are destined for the horrors of Gallipoli and the deprivation of the First World War...

The little mermaid has always yearned for the strange and exciting life of the humans. For humans have ever lasting souls and mermaids merely return to the ocean as sea foam upon their death. After saving a human man during a sea storm, she soon desires...

As Lina steps into adulthood, she turns to the work of Virginia Woolf and Patricia Highsmith for insight into who she - and her friends - will becomeIt's a typically sticky Toronto summer and Lina's spending her first couple of weeks after...

"Taaqtumi" is an Inuktitut word that means "in the dark"-and these spine-tingling horror stories by Northern writers show just how dangerous darkness can be. A family clinging to survival out on the tundra after a vicious zombie virus. A door that...

A Crossing of Hearts continues Michel Tremblay's Desrosiers Diaspora series of novels, a family saga set in Montreal during World War I. August 1915. Montreal is stifled by a heat wave while war rages in Europe. The three Desrosiers sisters Tititte,...

A man, returning home one evening after work, discovers his wife brutally murdered, lying in a pool of blood. A cat, their cat, a domesticated animal, tells the man the macabre tale of what happened, and in the second chapter, birds at the window...

Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation AGlobe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring Title Don Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this slapstick epic about destiny, family demons, and revenge.1911. A hockey game in...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 100's Best Books of 2023 "To say Heighton is an immensely talented writer is true enough but insufficient ... As good a writer as Canada has ever produced." -National PostThe...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022.The dead sleep peacefully-until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest works to keep them at rest, the count's dying wife begs to be buried near the...

Winner of the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisis-her husband's and her own.Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the...

"Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of." -Quill & Quire"If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup of...

Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each other's lives.Outside a...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.After attending a sance at an acquaintance's home, a man receives an unexpected job offer from another guest: resident doctor at the prison he directs. But when a prisoner begs...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When the Lady Gwendolen, age six, drops her doll down a staircase, her ladyship solemnly digs her fractured companion a grave. Luckily Mr Puckler, renowned doll doctor, thinks...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award Homage to Jean Genet's antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de...