When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket-list road trip, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly has said good-bye to her family and is on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict, just as it will for the elders who soon dub themselves “the Crazy Eights.” The Crazy Eights each choose a stop—somewhere or something they’ve always wanted to experience—on the way to their ultimate goal, the Gathering of Nations...

After being tossed from foster family to family throughout his life, Aidan has never known anything more than survival. After a fight with his foster father, he is forced to do community service for an elderly shut in. Things are not as they seem with his new acquaintance, and he finds that her true identity reveals a much bigger story than he ever imagined. After waking from reading a mysterious book, Aidan finds himself in a place out of time, with the chance to be a part of something li...

"I almost died today. What have you been up to?" - mit diesem Satz beginnt ein intensives Hörstück über das erste Jahr an der Dialyse. Noël Labridy, die auch als Projektassistentin bei Kulturregen Berlin tätig ist, erzählt von innerer Stärke, Angst und Abhängigkeit. Ihre ehrlichen Beobachtungen machen die Erfahrung universell und berührend. Autorin: Noël Labridy (instagram: @_labridy_) Coach: Svenja Gräfen Sprecherin: Monique Smith-McDowell (instagram: @mon_sm) Musik und Sounddesign: Mr. S...

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEAward-winning author David Bezmozgis’s first story collection in more than a decade, hailed by the Toronto Star as “intelligent, funny, unfailingly sympathetic”In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A mysterious tech conference brings a writer to Montreal, where he discovers new designs on the past in “How It Used to...

In 1808, the Russian Ship St. Nikolai ran aground off the Olympic Peninsula; this novel is based on this astounding historical event and the lives of the people affected.In 1808, eighteen-year-old Anna Petrovna Bulygina is aboard the Russian ship St. Nikolai when it runs aground off on the west coast of Washington State on the Olympic Peninsula. The crew, tasked with trading for sea otter pelts and exploring the coast, are forced to shore...

Kobo Originals and West End Phoenix present the second installment of Telegrams from Home, a collection of stories, reflections, and non-traditional work from some of Canada's greatest literary voices writing on the subject of life under quarantine during COVID-19. Featuring work by Amy Stuart, Karen Connelly, Eternity Martis, Kevin Chong, and more, these pieces are interwoven with stories from citizens across Canada providing a diverse set of reflections on the personal ...

Some of Canada's greatest literary voices join forces in the first installment of Telegrams from Home, Vol. 1: Life Under Lockdown During COVID-19, a collection of stories, reflections, and non-traditional work presented by West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals. We asked writers, poets, parents, essential workers, and humans of all kinds to tell us about a personal moment that defines their pandemic experience. Featuring pieces by Ivy Knight, Claudia Dey, Margaret Atwood, M...

A novel reminiscent of the works of Herman Koch and Rachel Cusk, in which a lesbian couple attempts to escape the secrets of their pasts."[Mootoo's] unsettling latest examines how secrets always come back to haunt us—especially the ones we've managed to keep from ourselves." — Globe & Mail, one of the 100 Favorite Books of 2020One of Autostraddle's Best Queer Books of 2020Polar Vortex is a seductive and tension-fi...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2018'A great, gripping story, ferociously well-written, with characters that live and breathe' STEF PENNEY, bestselling author of Under a Pole StarThe Coen Brothers meets Patrick deWitt in this glorious novel from award-winning author Tyler Keevil: a high-stakes adventure of love, loss and morality, introducing two unlikely outlaws…Tim Harding has spe...

This powerful, profoundly emotional novel from the acclaimed author of The Seamstress of New Orleans explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history—Southern Abolitionists—and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict.On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping ...

Growing up in the Fiji Islands in the late 1960s, Kalyana Mani Seth is an impressionable, plump young girl suited to the meaning of her name: blissful, blessed, the auspicious one. Her mother educates Kalyana about her Indian heritage, vividly telling tales of mischievous Krishna and powerful Mother Kali, and recounting her grandparents’ migration to the tiny, British colony. While the island nation celebrates its recently granted independence, new stories of the feminist revolution in Ame...

From the internationally bestselling author of Washington Black, winner of the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and finalist for the Man Booker Prize, this debut novel, haunting and atmospheric, portrays the heartbreak, hardship and moments of surprising grace in the life of a man struggling to realize his destiny.Once a young Ghanaian emigrant of outstanding promise, Samuel Tyne is languishing as a low-level civil servant in Calgary. When he unexpectedly inherits a mansion in...