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Orphans of Empire

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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

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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
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In the Belly of the Sphinx

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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

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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
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White Lung

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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

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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
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The Delusionist

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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

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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.
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Dragonflies

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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

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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
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Monday Night Man

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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

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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
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Monday Night Man

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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 â€œplungersâ€ striving for redemption through humour and long shots at the track. ... Read more

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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 â€œplungersâ€ striving for redemption through humour and long shots at the track.
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Loot

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years.A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR*, Kirkus Reviews*** ... Read more

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years.A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR*, Kirkus Reviews***
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Always Brave, Sometimes Kind

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Winner of the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards’ George Bugnet Award for FictionShortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award for FictionA Casual Optimist Book Cover of NoteAn exciting debut novel told in connected short stories that captures the diverse and complicated networks of people who stretch our communities—sometimes farther than we know.Set in the cities, reserves, and rural reaches of Alberta, Katie ... Read more

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Winner of the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards’ George Bugnet Award for FictionShortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award for FictionA Casual Optimist Book Cover of NoteAn exciting debut novel told in connected short stories that captures the diverse and complicated networks of people who stretch our communities—sometimes farther than we know.Set in the cities, reserves, and rural reaches of Alberta, Katie
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The English Problem

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**A young Indian man is tapped to help his country’s fight for freedom—but his heart engages him in a different war.“Grand, sweeping, mesmerizing . . . a richly detailed, politically profound story of love, of migration, of individuals caught up in the great convulsions of history.”—Joseph O’Neill, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of Godwin**Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India ... Read more

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**A young Indian man is tapped to help his country’s fight for freedom—but his heart engages him in a different war.“Grand, sweeping, mesmerizing . . . a richly detailed, politically profound story of love, of migration, of individuals caught up in the great convulsions of history.”—Joseph O’Neill, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of Godwin**Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India
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The End of Drum-Time

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FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNamed a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, Time, the Christian Science Monitor, Vox, and Kirkus Reviews“The best type of historical fiction—****electrifying, edifying, and set in an utterly enthralling time and place.”—The Minneapolis Star TribuneAn epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain</... ... Read more

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FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNamed a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, Time, the Christian Science Monitor, Vox, and Kirkus Reviews“The best type of historical fiction—****electrifying, edifying, and set in an utterly enthralling time and place.”—The Minneapolis Star TribuneAn epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain</...
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The Road to the Salt Sea

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WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must ... Read more

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