Books
Far Creek Road: A Novel
Tink Parker is an adventurous, nosy and very funny nine-year-old living a happy suburban life. But the Cold War is slowly building toward the Cuban Missile Crisis. The world is in danger of ending — and Tink’s innocence comes under threat.
The Necessary Havoc of Love
Seven friends head back to the land — until passions splinter their commune. These award-winning stories follow the seven seekers and their families to India, Panama, Tasmania and Mexico as they search for the lives they want to lead.
Time Squared
A literary, time-bending mash-up of a novel. Eleanor feels like a pawn, fighting to be with her soldier as they’re pushed through time. Roman Britain, the Blitz, Vietnam. Who is playing with them, and how can Eleanor make it stop?
Mad Richard
Richard Dadd knew Dickens and studied with Turner. Based on a true story, Mad Richard follows Dadd as he paints, travels, and commits a murder that puts him in Bedlam — where Charlotte Brontë visits.
Poor Player
Actor Jack Hall quits his hot career in L.A. to work for human rights. Arriving in Mexico City, he’s heading south in more ways than one. Who will Jack take with him?
Hard Travel
In these seven extraordinary stories, travellers arrive in Guatemala, a bluegrass festival in North Carolina and a canyon in Mexico. They go in search of adventure — and themselves. Yet as Thomas à Kempis warns, “They who travel seldom come home holy.”
The Corner Garden
Jessie Barfoot is precocious, witty and wounded, her standards too high for ordinary life. In this moving novel, Jessie befriends a Dutch refugee whose secrets threaten them both.
Johnny Bey and the Mizzenglass World
Johnny Bey is a kid who likes to fix things. Mostly he wants to fix his family after his 13-year-old brother, Brendan, goes missing. In this book for kids ten and up, Johnny enters a magic realm to try to bring his brother home. Playing a dangerous, high-stakes game, he confronts ancient beasts brought back to life and a ghostly brother who won’t play by the rules.
Foreign Correspondences
Lesley Krueger travelled as soon as she could get on planes, trains and buses by herself. India, Labrador, Mexico during an earthquake: in this memoir, she ranges far as she struggles to define home.
Drink the Sky
When Holly and Todd move to Brazil, Todd disappears up the Amazon, fighting to save it. The neglected Holly drifts into a glittering affair. But what about their children? And the man who stalks them.
Toronto: accidents de parcours (French)
Avec André Alexis, Elizabeth Hay, Lesley Krueger, Michael Redhill, Leon Rooke et Michael Winter. Textes réunis par Linda Spalding. Traduit par Marianne Audouard.