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While out of the city for a year, a couple rent their home to two men who promise to care for it and keep it in good repair. When the owners return, it is not to the situation they had feared, but to...

Unable to send to Sudan a box of relief entrusted to them by friends, Dave and Aileen become plagued by its presence. One day, they decide to do something about it.With a compelling sense of mystery...

Wanting to get away after a breakup, Alex rents a picturesque cottage. He quickly befriends the elderly widow and nurse who occupy the main house, but it isn’t long before he discovers that there...

The girl appears in the service station one day, sneaking in to steal hubcaps to sell for spare cash. Brash and unapologetic, she isn’t like anyone the boy has encountered before. Within moments,...

At dinner with friends, Cynthia and Stan find themselves in the middle of a discussion about the intricacies and oddities of love, trust, and family that exist in every household—including their own.With...

After his son, Adrian, completes an experiment on the behaviour of rats, Bill sees his own life—spent primarily in front of the television—mirrored in the animals’ caged existence.With a compelling...

Henry’s life is in shambles until his childhood friend Harris appears at his door unexpectedly. They spend a weekend accompanied by beautiful women, engaging in acts of excess and having conversations...

After running into financial trouble, a man hires an appraiser to look at the cottage he owns. While the intention is to discuss the cottage, the true appraisal is that of history, religion, and the...

A man recounts his childhood, spent in rooms blue with smoke and in the company of Tulip Paradis, the girl next door. Through his reflections, he reveals his own journey of sexual discovery from a first...

Tired of living under his parents’ watchful eyes, Dennis takes off for Australia, leaving his beloved Studebaker in his parents’ care, only to return to unfamiliar faces and the conspicuous absence...

Eric hopes to make friends quickly when he moves to London. Upon meeting Felicia, he immediately falls in love, but the two are soon forced to question whether love is truly enough to make them happy.With...

Going up to the roof, Martin expects to undertake the mundane task of patching a shingle. Instead, while surveying the neighbourhood, he gains a profound awareness of how different things look from...

Greg Hollingshead’s remarkable novel of betrayal and redemption explores the farthest reaches of human experience, in a story that will immediately capture fans of Bedlam, his latest masterwork. When...

Conspiracies and paranoia sweep across England in the aftermath of the French Revolution, landing tea broker James Tilly Matthews in Bethlem Hospital, a notorious, crumbling home for the insane....

“Writing doesn’t get much better,” The Edmonton Journal enthused when The Roaring Girl was first published in 1995. Readers and award committees agreed, bestowing Hollingshead...

When it first appeared in 1992, Spin Dry received ravereviews, won the Georges Bugnet Award for the Novel and was shortlisted for theSmith’s/Books in Canada First Novel Award....