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Series: The Figure in the Photograph Paperback Kevin Sullivan 9780749026615 $16.95 FICTION Feb 18, 2021

First in an exciting two-book deal set in the gritty streets of early 20th century Glasgow
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Series: Domesday The Stallions of Woodstock Hardcover Edward Marston 9780749026059 $25.95 FICTION Nov 19, 2020

In the forest of Woodstock an excited crowd waits for the first horse to pass the post, but the winning steed has an empty saddle, its rider lying in a copse with a knife in his back. While guests of the Sheriff of Oxford, Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret inevitably find their attention drawn to the tragedy and uncover a startling truth.
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Series: Domesday The Serpents of Harbledown Hardcover Edward Marston 9780749025946 $25.95 FICTION Nov 19, 2020

Bestselling author Edward Marston’s Domesday series is back in print after being unavailable for 20 years: classic series by major author with stunning new livery.
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Series: Domesday The Lions of the North Hardcover Edward Marston 9780749025793 $25.95 FICTION Nov 19, 2020

Bestselling author Edward Marston’s Domesday series is back in print after being unavailable for 20 years: classic series by major author with stunning new livery.
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Series: The Straits of Treachery Paperback Richard Hopton 9780749025533 $16.95 FICTION Jan 21, 2021

Winner of the SAHR Prize for Military Fiction.
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Series: Hakim & Arnold A Time to Die Paperback Barbara Nadel 9780749024710 $16.95 FICTION Nov 19, 2020

Latest in Nadel’s gritty, original and timely series following private investigator Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim.
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Series: São Paulo Quartet Brazilian Psycho Paperback Joe Thomas 9781911350842 $19.99 FICTION Aug 01, 2023
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Series: Arcturus Science & History Collection 100 Great Artists A Visual Journey from Fra Angelico to Andy Warhol Hardcover Charlotte Gerlings 9781839404214 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 30, 2020

April 2020 marks 500 years since Raphael's death, who is featured in this book.This book showcases, in full color, the works of one hundred painters who represent eight centuries of the European tradition: from Giotto in the 13th century to Hockney in the 21st.Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, each artist occupies a double-page spread that contains a selection of pictures, accessible text and a biographical timeline.The secrets of the masterpieces revealed: does Van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage portray a secret sadness? What political pu... + Read More
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Series: Elements The Essential Book of Mindfulness Healing Through Being Present Hardcover Wendy Hobson 9781838576363 $16.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Oct 01, 2020

Includes an A-Z of mindfulness.Utilizes expert content from experienced practitioners such as Leo Babauta.Part of a practical series of Mind, Body, Spirit books.Arcturus has sold over half a million copies of this series worldwide!
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Series: Elements The Essential Book of Chakras How to Focus the Energy Points of the Body Hardcover C.W. Leadbeater 9781838576356 $16.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Oct 01, 2020

Illustrated with the famous chakra drawings of theosophist Charles Leadbeater.Contains meditations for each of the seven chakras.Section on yoga poses for balancing each chakra.Arcturus has sold over half a million copies of this series worldwide!
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Series: The Further Adventures of Father Brown Hardcover G. K. Chesterton 9781839406928 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Father Brown is one of the best-loved sleuths from Golden Age of detective fiction. This handsome hardback volume collects four of his classic cases, presented with a modern cover design, dust jacket and gorgeous endpapers. Hiding behind his genial appearance, this priest-come-detective has a razor-sharp mind. Through his experience as a confessor, Father Brown has gained has an intrinsic knowledge of humanity's capacity for evil which makes him an expert at solving crimes. This gifted sleuth uses intuition over scientific method, putting hims... + Read More
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Series: Arcturus Retro Classics The Classic Ghost Stories Collection Chilling Tales from Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James Hardcover Guy de Maupassant 9781839406485 $25.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2020

A companion title to Arcturus' The Classic Horror Collection, The Classic Science Fiction Collection and The Classic Fantasy Collection.Each of these titles features stunning 'aged-look' cover art and beautiful patterning on the endpapers.At nearly a thousand pages, this book is sure to have something for devotees of the genre and those coming to it for the first time. Makes a great gift!
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Series: Sirius Color by Numbers Collection Happiness Color by Numbers Paperback Arpad Olbey 9781839407352 $16.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 01, 2020

This uplifting color-by-number book explores the theme of happiness in more than 60 beautiful artworks. From cake shop windows to calming beach scenes, this heart-warming collection of images is perfect for the calming activity of coloring. The magic of coloring by numbers is that you don't have to worry about drawing from scratch or choosing colors - simply match up the numbered section to the corresponding color on the color-key and focus on completing the design. In this collection, the key has been placed on the back-flap and so can be fli... + Read More
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Series: Ingenious Puzzles Expert Sudoku Paperback Ben Addler 9781839406348 $16.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 15, 2020

Sudoku puzzles are known for reducing anxiety, boosting logical thinking, and for promoting a sense of accomplishment.
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Series: The Turing Tests The Turing Tests Expert Brain Training Puzzles Foreword by Sir Dermot Turing Paperback Eric Saunders 9781839404863 $12.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 15, 2020

Simple cover design is inspired by 1940s wartime book covers.In early 2019 Alan Turing was named the winner in the scientist category of the BBC Icons series recognising 20th century icons he went on to be crowned overall winner.The Alan Turing Puzzle Books series has sold over 140,000 copies.
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Series: Sirius Color by Numbers Collection Flowers Color by Numbers Paperback Else Lennox 9781839407369 $16.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 01, 2020

From bright fields of tulips to elegant bouquets, this wonderful collection of over 60 color-by-number images celebrates the beauty of flowers around the world. Perfect for nature-lovers and budding artists, this collection allows you to create beautiful and sophisticated artworks with a little help. The colors have been chosen for you - simply match up the numbered section to the corresponding color on the flip-out key and color away!Designs include:• Beds of roses• Fields of lavender • A bouquet of wildflowers• Cherry blossom in a Japanese... + Read More
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Series: The Art of War Hardcover Sun Tzu 9781839406645 $25.95 HISTORY Nov 19, 2020

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. This richly illustrated deluxe gift edition presents Sun Tzu's The Art of War, the earliest-known and most famous treatise on military science. This ancient Chinese text provides tactical advice on war strategy and how to adjust your approach in ever-evolving situations. Despite being written over two thousand years ago, its shrewd and penetrating theories are used today as a source of insight into many areas of life, including leadership and corporate... + Read More
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Series: Arcturus World Classics Library World Classics Library: Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra, Ecce Homo, Beyond Good and Evil Hardcover Frederich Nietzsche 9781839407000 $25.95 PHILOSOPHY Nov 01, 2020

This elegantly designed, hardback edition is the perfect gift for any literature lover.
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Series: Arcturus Silhouette Classics Walden Hardcover Henry David Thoreau 9781839407765 $19.95 PHILOSOPHY Nov 01, 2020

Walden provides a perfect retreat from our busy lives through Thoreau's excellent writing.Henry David Thoreau's great work is a classic of transcendentalism that highlights the core of what it means to be American.Walden has influenced a diverse cast of people from Gandhi to Martin Luther King.
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Series: Arcturus Ornate Classics The Prophet Hardcover Kahlil Gibran 9781839403842 $16.95 POETRY Nov 01, 2020

This deluxe hardback edition presents Gibran's poetic masterpiece The Prophet, featuring gilded page edges, beautiful black and white illustrations and a foil-embossed cover design. The Prophet is a concise but deeply profound prose poem set in the city of Orphalese. Before leaving on a journey to his homeland, the prophet Almustafa imparts words of wisdom to the crowds, touching on occasions of birth, marriage, death and all of life's other milestones. An international bestseller, it has furnished individuals the world over with words of joy o... + Read More
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Series: A Guide to Happiness Using Mindfulness and Meditation Paperback Tara Ward 9781839403668 $9.95 SELF-HELP Nov 01, 2020

This book offers a practical approach to help readers increase their set point, and find a level of happiness above that which they would normally feel, and feel more satisfaction in life.Contains simple exercises that will train the mind to recognise and pursue happiness by concentrating on the fundamental things in life, and in doing so change the way we view the world.
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Series: Attention Passengers An Adult Activity Book from McSweeney's Novelty book Wendi Aarons 9781944211998 $18.95 HUMOR Nov 03, 2028

Airports are agonizing. The shoeless indignity of waiting in TSA lines. The $18 you spent for a disgusting sandwich. The business bros. Travelers deserve this side-splittingly funny and ever-so-slightly off-color activity book for adults. Despairing air travelers can take respite in these pages, written by award-winning humorist Wendi Aarons, one of the hilarious people behind McSweeney's Internet Tendency. It's utterly unfair that only children can have a disappearing ink and word search activity books to get them through their travels. Now,... + Read More
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Series: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern McSweeney’s Issue 62 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) The Queer Fiction Issue Hardcover Patrick Cottrell 9781944211912 $35.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 24, 2020

McSweeney's 62: The Queer Fiction Issue, collects absurd, bold, bleak, humorous, and astonishing works of fiction and art by queer writers of all orientations. Inside this luxurious hardcover, you’ll find stories about storm chasers and Colombian supermodels, about talking plants and DIY bands and camboys and encounters with the dead. Contributors include Bryan Washington, Eileen Myles, Kristen Arnett, Sarah Gerard, Juli Delgado Lopera, Gabby Bellot, Denne Michelle, Emma Copley Eisenberg, K-Ming Chang, and many more. Guest-edited by Patrick Cot... + Read More
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Series: Dear McSweeney's Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer Hardcover Daniel Levin Becker 9781952119019 $30.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 21, 2021

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern has been printing issues since 1998, and sending them into the world with reckless faith. Now and then, the world writes back. In two decades and change, we’ve accumulated a heady archive of dispatches, pleas, confessions, treatises, ruminations, rants, raves, and the occasional misdirected customer service query. Collected here are one hundred installments from this sprawling many-to-one correspondence, including but not limited to musings on moths and mummies and macaroons, cats and armadillos and homicidal sea w... + Read More
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Series: Cold Case North The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett Paperback Michael Nest 9780889777491 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 07, 2020

For fans of true crime, an unsolved mystery of missing persons, police conspiracies, and private investigations in an Indigenous community in northern Canada. Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady’s success made politicians and clergy fear him, and he had enemies everywhere. In 1967, while prospecting in Saskatchewan with Cree Band Councillor and fellow activist Absol... + Read More
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Series: Watching the Devil Dance How a Spree Killer Slipped Through the Cracks of the Criminal Justice System Paperback William Toffan 9781771963251 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 10, 2020

The unbelievable true story of North America’s first known spree killer, written by a veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.In June 1966, Matthew Charles Lamb took his uncle’s shotgun and wandered down Ford Blvd in Windsor, Ontario. At the end of the bloody night, two teenagers lay dead, with multiple others injured after an unprovoked shooting spree. In his investigation into Lamb’s story, William Toffan pieces together the troubled childhood and the history of violence that culminated in the young man’s dubious distinction as Canada’s ... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes On Decline Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever Paperback Andrew Potter 9781771963947 $14.95 PHILOSOPHY Aug 17, 2021

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote—and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declared 2016 “the worst … ever.” Four even more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media cliché. But when COVID-19 hit, journalist and professor of pub... + Read More
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Series: The Fall 2020 Munk Debate The Munk Debates Paperback Rudyard Griffiths 9781487008390 $14.95

The twenty-sixth semi-annual Munk Debate, North America’s premier public-policy event.Held semi-annually, the Munk Debates provide leading thinkers with a global forum to discuss the major public-policy issues facing the world. Participants in the Munk Debates have included Tony Blair, Stephen Fry, Newt Gingrich, Malcolm Gladwell, Christopher Hitchens, Garry Kasparov, Henry Kissinger, Paul Krugman, Steven Pinker, Samantha Power, and Fareed Zakaria.The Munk Debate series features the full text of the debates, along with interviews with the debat... + Read More
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Series: I Am Ariel Sharon Paperback Yara El-Ghadban 9781487007973 $22.95 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

A bold and innovative novel, I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.Award-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wives, and the mysterious nurse Rita. Like latter-day Greek furies, they lament the brutality of his life and maltreatment of the Palestinian people and demand he face up to his part i... + Read More
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Series: Fixation How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet Hardcover Sandra Goldmark 9781642830453 $33.95 HOUSE & HOME Sep 22, 2020

Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And this strain of consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. It’s time to move past “peak stuff” and to a new system where design, reuse, and repair are the norm. This is the ambitious undertaking of Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet. Sandra Goldmark, who started humbly by founding a pop-up repair shop, is now a leader in the movement to demand better “stuff.” Af... + Read More
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Series: In Their Shoes Navigating Non-Binary Life Paperback Jamie Windust 9781787752429 $25.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Nov 21, 2020

Frank, funny and feisty, this must-read book is packed full of inspiring ways to live and thrive in your best non-binary life. Readers will come away empowered and armed with practical advice on how to navigate everything from relationships to fashion to work.
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Series: The Trans Self-Care Workbook A Coloring Book and Journal for Trans and Non-Binary People Paperback Theo Lorenz 9781787753433 $26.95 SELF-HELP Nov 21, 2020

A creative workbook for the trans and non-binary community, including colouring pages, journaling prompts and reflective exercises. Drawing on CBT and mindfulness techniques, topics include euphoria and dysphoria, coming out and building relationships, promoting the message that although no experience is identical to another, nobody is alone.
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Series: Who Was Doris Hedges? The Search for Canada's First Literary Agent Hardcover Robert Lecker 9780228003694 $37.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 18, 2020

Despite her trailblazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from Canadian literary histories. In Who Was Doris Hedges? Robert Lecker provides a detailed account of her remarkable career. Hedges published several novels, short stories, and books of poetry, moved in Montreal literary circles, did a stint as a radio broadcaster, and provided reports to the Wartime Informat... + Read More
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Series: Hunter with Harpoon Paperback Markoosie Patsauq 9780228004028 $19.95 FICTION Nov 18, 2020

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance.In collaboration with the author, Valerie Henitiuk and Marc-Antoine Mah... + Read More
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Series: Indigenomics Taking a Seat at the Economic Table Paperback Carol Anne Hilton 9780865719408 $21.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

It is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. This is Indigenomics.Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship of resources, and care for all. Highlights include: The ongoing power shift and rise of the modern Indigenous economy Voices of leading Indigenous business leaders The unfolding story in the la... + Read More
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Series: Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series The Chinese Greenhouse Design and Build a Low-Cost, Passive Solar Greenhouse Paperback Dan Chiras 9780865719293 $34.99 GARDENING Nov 03, 2020

Originally developed in China to feed millions, Chinese greenhouses are earth-sheltered, solar-heated, east-west oriented, intelligently glazed, and well-insulated. They have proven highly effective in growing warm-weather vegetables and fruits like green peppers and tomatoes in cold climates through fall, winter, and early spring using passive solar energy as the sole heat source.The Chinese Greenhouse is a full-color comprehensive guide to these passive solar greenhouses for self-sufficiency and growing year-round in soil or aquaponic grow be... + Read More
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Series: A Feminist History Society Book Because They Were Women The Montreal Massacre Paperback Josée Boileau 9781772601428 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 10, 2020

Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of the tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture. The victims of what became known as the “Montreal Massacre” are remembered, their lives cut short on December 6, 1989 when a man entered École Polytechnique and systematically shot every young woman he encountered. The killer was motivated by a misogyny whose roots go far beyond one man and one day. This book examines how December 6 precipitated an entire cultur... + Read More
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Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Paperback Katherine Graham 9780887558689 $31.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 11, 2021

"Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future" looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission’s influence on subsequent milestones in Indigenous-Canada relations and considers our prospects for a constructive future. RCAP’s five-year examination of the relationships of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples to Canada and to non-Indigenous Canadians resulted in a new vision for Canada and provided 440 specific re... + Read More
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Series: Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest Paperback Rachelle Hope Saltzman 9781496831576 $30.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 16, 2020

The 2016 US presidential campaign and its aftermath provoked an array of protests notable for their use of humour, puns, memes, and graphic language. During the 2016 campaign, a video surfaced of then-candidate Donald Trump’s lewd use of the word “pussy”; in response, many women have made the issue and the term central to the public debate about women’s bodies and their political, social, and economic rights. Focusing on the women-centered aspects of the protests that started with the 2017 Women’s March, Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest... + Read More
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Series: Catastrophe Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion Paperback T. Joseph Scanlon 9781771123716 $39.99 HISTORY Nov 27, 2020

Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion—the worst non-natural disaster in North America before 9/11. On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when volatile cargo on the SS Mont-Blanc freighter exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. More than nineteen hundred people were killed and nine thousand injured. Across more than two square kilometres some 1200 homes, factories, schools and churches were obliterated or heavily damaged. Writt... + Read More
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Series: 'Membering Austin Clarke Paperback Paul Barrett 9781771124775 $39.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 24, 2020

'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like. Despite being one of Canada's most widely published, and most richly awarded writers, Austin Clarke (1934–2016) is not a household name. This collection addresses Clarke's marginalization in Canadian literature by demonstrating that his writing on Black diasporic life and the immigrant experience is a foundational, if untold, part of the story of CanLit. Noveli... + Read More