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  • The Delusionist

    by Grant Buday ...
    Kobzar Literary Award, FinalistEric Hoffer Award, ShortlistCity of Victoria Book Prize, FinalistVancouver, summer 1962. Cyril Andrachuk and Connie Chow are seventeen and in love.Cyril is the only Canadian-born member of the Andrachuk family, his parents and older brother having survived Stalin’s systematic starving of the Ukraine. His brother’s brittle bones are not the only legacy of Stalin. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • White Lung

    by Grant Buday ...
    Finalist, City of Vancouver Book PrizeA blackly comic new novel from Vancouver author Grant Buday, based on his eight glorious years working in a mass production bakery. Dickensian in magnitude, White Lung is a sardonic portrait of B.C.’s racial conflicts and chaotic economy.Praise for White Lung:"a rollicking black comedy of errors with a host of unforgettable characters" (Quill & Quire, starred ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Monday Night Man

    by Grant Buday ...
    Finalist, City of Vancouver Book AwardMonday Night Man is a back alley view of East Vancouver netherworlds. Horst Nunn, Ray Bunce, and Boyle Rupp are a trio of middle-aged, underemployed, intelligent “plungers” striving for redemption through humour and long shots at the track.Praise for Monday Night Man:"These stories . . . combine the flavours of Dickens and Charles Bukowski, with a good hit of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Ugly John

    by Grant Buday ...
    Ugly John is a novel based on the life and times of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, who was born in Glasgow in 1815 and died in Ottawa in 1891. It loosely follows a chronological structure, exploring Macdonald’s youth and adulthood, and the evolution of his personal and political life.Macdonald was many things: deeply ambitious, doggedly loyal to the British Empire, a joker, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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  • Orphans of Empire

    A Novel

    by Grant Buday ...
    Finalist for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and the 2021 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize"Meticulously researched and vividly drawn, Orphans of Empire brings to life the half-forgotten world of early British Columbia. This is an immersive, shimmering novel." —Steven Price, author of #1 nationally bestselling By Gaslight and Giller-shortlisted LampedusaIn ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • In the Belly of the Sphinx

    A Novel

    by Grant Buday ...
    Grant Buday’s new novel is an eccentric coming-of-age story that captures the late-Victorian fascination with ancient Egypt, auras, and the afterlife.Smart, stubborn, and forthright Pearl Greyland-Smith is nine years old when we first meet her, in 1882. She lives with her widowed mother, Florence, in Victoria’s James Bay neighbourhood. Pearl’s father was a Hussar who died in Afghanistan, or that’s ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Monday Night Man

    by Grant Buday ...
    Monday Night Man is a back alley view of East Vancouver netherworlds. Horst Nunn, Ray Bunce, and Boyle Rupp are a trio of middle-aged, underemployed, intelligent “plungers†striving for redemption through humour and long shots at the track. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Dragonflies

    by Grant Buday ...
    After ten years the Trojan War is at a deadlock. Both sides are exhausted, and Odysseus, cleverest of men, wants more than anything to return to Ithaka and his wife and son and orange grove. He aches for home, but not without a certain fear that he will return a stranger to the son he hasn't seen in ten years. When Agamemnon, King of the Greeks, asks Odysseus to devise a scheme to settle the ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD