FINALST FOR THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD**“A gorgeous depiction of the tender, painful stretching required to love well and expansively, to recast our ideas of romance and family.” — Aimee Wall, author of We, JaneIn the year following her mother’s death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner.**It’s the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and everybody is twenty-seven and making some kind of a...

In the year following her mother’s death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner.It’s the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and everybody is twenty-seven and making some kind of art. In the wake of her mother’s death, Sophie pays rent by making stained glass mosaics for rich people and plays house with her childhood friend and sometimes-lover, the beautiful boy Alex. Both are from Newfoundland but move easily in this world o...

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It's about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. It is a family type. A silent war. The type fought in the heart. It began long before I was formed.Udonwa's family is at war—a war of relationships, played out under the tyranny of a monster dad. Age twelve, Udonwa has a peculiar love for her father, Reverend Leonard Ilechukwu, who favours...

A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive, she responds by running away from her marriage and her l...

**Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award“Profoundly anti-carceral, abundantly queer, and weird as f*ck, Audition will lead you to spine-tingling places if you are willing to navigate its corridors.” —Casey Lucas, bad apple**The spaceship Audition is hurtling through the cosmos towards the event horizon. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley, and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are si...

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, this poetic and often funny debut by an author with autism is written from the point of view of an autistic mother as she and her headstrong adolescent daughter are befriended by a glamorous, charismatic couple with dark ulterior motives.I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She doe...

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets from “huge literary talent” (Karl Ove Knausgaard) and internationally bestselling author Megan Nolan.It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" -- ordinary people, hi...

**A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn engrossing, page-turning story about an introverted student and the mysterious older woman whose unexpected interest in her sparks an insidious, all-consuming love affair.**Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived for her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for an unfamiliar city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. Chatty, confident Clara from down the hall,...

NAMED A ""FALL 2020 MUST-READ"" AND ONE OF THE ""BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020"" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, WIRED, COSMOPOLITAN AND MOREElectrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people—an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives.Set in an unna...

**AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2026 • LONGLISTED FOR THE SUNBURST AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE JIM DEVA PRIZE FOR WRITING THAT PROVOKES • FINALIST FOR THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA PETER ROBINSON AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVELFrom the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the demons passed down through five generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family, and what it might take for them to finally break free of the past. Will y...

***AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER**ONE OF INDIGO'S TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR*A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found.**By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have come into her family and left—all of them Indigenous like her. "When will it be my turn?" she asks her mother time and time again. "When will I be taken away?" You won't...

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE (SPECULATIVE FICTION)*“Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring.” —GEORGE SAUNDERS“Madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good.” —KELLY LINK“A delightfully bizarre and unabashedly queer revelation.” —TEGAN and SARA QUIN“A beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad stunner of a debut that never forgets about the heart.” —NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAHW...