A powerful and poetic immigration story.A girl learns words in a new language to prepare for her move to a new country. But when her family arrives, everyone speaks so fast and “all her words fly away like birds.” The girl waits, and watches, and listens, trying to figure things out. Only, it’s hard. Then one day the girl meets someone who needs her help. And as she makes a new friend, the new words start to come easier — becoming her words, at last.A perfect read-aloud, th...

The Future Show is a piece that tells the story of Deborah’s future, starting from the end of the performance and going until the end of her life, that is consistently re-written to be both site and time specific. It is a Sisyphean task of a show, examining the mundane, the uncertain, and the fragility of our futures.The Future Show toured internationally for two years, with a new script written for every iteration. It has been performed in the USA, Canada, Belgium, Portugal, Polan...

Fully revised and updated for the five year anniversary that this was first published. This is a sweet retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Thirty-two years after marrying Elizabeth Bennet, Mr Darcy has decided to write his side of the famous love story. This first of three parts exploring their courtship and marriage explores what was going on Darcy's mind as we follow him evolving from a lonely man through Georgiana's near elopement, to his meeting with Elizabeth and struggling to accept he...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERSCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALISTA propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound that no one else can hearOne night, while lying in bed next to her husband, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum. This innocuous sound, which no one else in the house can hear, has no obvious source or medical cause, but it begins to upset the balance of Claire’s life. ...

Welcome to the first book in the Transformation Series. These books are designed to help you create the best life you really want to live...on the inside, your thoughts, feelings, beliefs and health and on the outside your relationships, your work...basically all your interaction with life. Each book is about The Next Step Up in showing you how to understand and transform what is not working for you into what does work for you. You will learn easy, yet powerful methods that enable you to m...

Working collaboratively with Deborah Pearson and Stacey Gregg, four Clean Break members, who are artists with prison experience, created Inside Bitch.This show challenges societal perceptions by challenging the stories we tell through television, the media, and to ourselves. Inside Bitch questions what is lost when we try to tell a story.

Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and still others are bodies we are born into. In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home.Four sisters and their mother explore their fears while teeny ghost people dress up in fragments of their children’s clothes. A somewhat-ghost tends the family garden. Deep in the mountains, a shapeshifting mother must...

What if you could see yourself as others see you? Astra is a beguiling debut novel that reveals the different faces of one woman, as seen through the eyes of ten people over a lifetime. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, Winnipeg Free Press, and CBC Books.Born and raised on a remote British Columbia commune, Astra Brine has lo...

“Dark August is a tightly-paced cauldron of a thriller about small town corruption, murder and mayhem, in the vein of Sharp Objects and All The Missing Girls. A macabre and confidently twisty debut.” — Lisa Gabriele, internationally bestselling author of The WintersAn electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her tragic past, who returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her p...

Fromthe author of Ayesha at Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of“You’ve Got Mail,” set in two competing halal restaurantsSales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the onlyhalal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighbourhood. Hanawaitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on theradio. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station,she m...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEA lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls “one of the most beautiful debuts I’ve read in years.”How many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves?In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-y...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2021 Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2021 BMO Winterset AwardShortlisted for the 2021 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2021 Concordia University First Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award for FictionA remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikeliest of places...