A 2026 CBC Canada Reads SelectionShortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel AwardShortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeGarden State meets King Leary in this slapshot debut novel.Adam Macallister's sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he's got one last shot: a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey's most notorious goon, the reclusi...

A 2026 CBC Canada Reads SelectionShortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeGarden State meets King Leary in this slapshot debut novel.Adam Macallister’s sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he’s got one last shot—a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey’s most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout—...

***WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.**An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, th...

Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have a blast and to laugh ourselves silly.Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex ...

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person—and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. A William C. Morris Award Honor Book and a Stonewall Award Honor Book!Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She’ll be working in her family’s ice-cream shack with her ...