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The Accidental Plus One Down Under
- Location(s): Australia, Canada, New Zealand (Aotearoa), United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
- Era(s): Era: Contemporary
New Year’s Eve 2019 While everyone else is popping champagne corks and ringing in a new decade, Alison—The Accidental Plus One—is crammed into a flying tin can somewhere over the Equator, obsessing over whether she remembered to lock the...
- Location(s): Vancouver Island
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
GRIPPING MURDER MYSTERY FICTION FROM CANADA A peaceful day in Castlecrest, a coastal town on Vancouver Island, is interrupted when a gunshot rings out from a jewellery store. Crime is so rare in the area that only RCMP Sergeant...
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): 1940s
Growing up in the heart of Montreal’s Jewish ghetto, Duddy Kravitz is obsessed with his grandfather’s saying, “A man without land is nothing.” In his relentless pursuit of property and his drive to become a somebody, he will wheel...
- Location(s): Montreal, Québec
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): modern
Life’s not all fun and games for Ashley Smeeton, in her mid-twenties and trying to run a private investigation agency in Montreal despite a temporary cash flow emergency. She’s as surprised as anyone though when she agrees to take...
- Location(s): Peshawar, Canada, England
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s & 1950s
Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction that makes you both laugh and cry, in the perfect nostalgic read to escape with this autumn. Is it ever too late to change your story? Daniel Pitt was an...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing....
- Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1911
The Bird Artist, Howard Norman’s spellbinding novel, is set in Newfoundland in 1911. Fabian Vas’s story, told with disarming simplicity and grace, takes place against a spare and profoundly beautiful landscape where the most powerful of emotions stand out...
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century, mid 20th century
The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the person behind...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Laura Chase’s older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable...
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