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Coconut

by Nisha Patel

In her debut collection, Canadian National Slam Champion Nisha Patel commands her formidable insight and youthful, engaged voice to relay experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and love.

“Coconut is a book of conversationstarters. It prompts questions we didn’t realize we needed to ask and challenges those answers we thought we knew best.” ~ Anuja Varghese, Hamilton Review of Books

Trade Paperback / April 1, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439-023-x ISBN 13: 978-1-77439-023-8 BISAC 1: POE023040 BISAC 2: POE011000 106 PP / 5.5 x 9 / $19.95 CdN $14.95 uSd

Light on a Part of the Field

by Kevin Holowack

A family grapples with artistic ambition, mental illness, and rifts that may not be possible to mend. Set in BC and AB in the 1960s and 1970s, this is a novel of finely observed vignettes offering a refracted look at art and family in the mid-century West.

“In Kevin Holowack’s novel ... members of a flawed, dysfunctional family pursue their separate destinies, even though they cannot break their bonds with each other.” ~ Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews

Trade Paperback / May 1, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439-014-6 ISBN 13: 978-1-77439-014-6 BISAC 1: FIC045000 BISAC 2: FIC044000 344 PP / 6 x 9 / $21.95 CdN $16.95 uSd

Dominion of Mercy

by Danial Neil

Edinburgh, 1917: Headstrong lass Mary Stewart is a vibrant woman forced to depart Scotland for the frontier town of Anyox, BC. But a past like hers is not easy to escape, and living on the frontier has more challenges than even the darkest streets of Old Town.

“Mary Stewart ... is a survivor and force of nature.” ~ Garry Ryan, award-winning author of the Detective Lane Mystery and Blackbirds Series

Trade Paperback / April 15, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439-020-5 ISBN 13: 978-77439-020-5 BISAC 1: FIC014000 BISAC 2: FIC066000 208 PP / 5.5 x 8 .5 / $20.95 CdN $15.95 uSd

A Brief View from the Coastal Suite

by Karen Hofmann

• Sequel to WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT.

Set in Vancouver during the economically turbulent year of 2008, this novel skillfully explores societal attitudes and the instability of personal and public lives in a world that values money above all else.

“Hofmann’s prose is captivating.” ~ John J. Murray, Foreword Reviews

TrAdE PAPErBACk / mAy 1, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439-017-5 ISBN 13: 978-1-177439-017-7 BISAC 1: FIC045020 BISAC 2: FIC019000 BISAC 3: FIC069000 328 PP / 6 x 9 / $21.95 CdN $16.95 uSd

Burning the Night

by Glen Huser

Timeless and essential, GG awardwinning author Glen Huser’s Burning the Night spans across generations and distance, traversing from Vancouver to Halifax, as it bears down on the history of Canadian painting and Curtis’s awakening as a gay man.

“Huser is a sensitive yet ruthless observer of human nature.” ~ Alison Watt, author of Dazzle Patterns

Trade Paperback / May 15, 2021 ISBN 10: 1-77439-011-6 ISBN 13: 978-77439-011-5 BISAC 1: FIC011000 BISAC 2: FIC014040 BISAC 3: FIC019000 272 PP / 5.5 x 8.5 / $19.95 CdN $14.95 uSd

The Weight of Blood

by D.B. Carew

After barely surviving the events of The Killer Trail, Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder is called in to learn what he can about the prime suspect, Marvin, an autistic man found covered in blood at the scene of the crime.

“Fans of clinical mysteries will want to check this one out.” ~ Publishers Weekly

TrAdE PAPErBACk / NOvEmBEr 1, 2020 ISBN 10: 1-988732-92-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-988732-92-3 BISAC 1: FIC031080 BISAC 2: FIC022000 320 PP / 5 x 8 / $18.95 CdN $14.95 uSd