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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.”
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 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.
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.
Avec André Alexis, Elizabeth Hay, Lesley Krueger, Michael Redhill, Leon Rooke et Michael Winter. Textes réunis par Linda Spalding. Traduit par Marianne Audouard.