"Poet and novelist Helen Humphreys's And a Dog Called Fig, a meditation on the benefits of dogs to the creative life, including the dogs of well-known writers from history, portraits of all the dogs from the author's life, and the arrival and raising of her new puppy"--

"A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life--a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn't seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and harbors, along eaves and on wires. In a world that values big and fast, Maclear looks to the small, the steady,...

On the eve of his fortieth birthday, the author reflects upon his life, which does not include a wife, kids, car, or a house, in a series of humorous stories that discuss automatic hand dryers, toy poodles, and the McRib.

Ten interrelated stories tracing the course of Atwood's life and the lives intertwined with it.

"A daughter's riveting, devastating portrait of her relationship with her mother, a brilliant and charismatic woman haunted by childhood sexual trauma. When an eight-year-old Leah McLaren's parents get divorced, her mother, Cessie, flees her conventional life as a suburban housewife in search of a glamorous journalism career. In the chaotic years that follow, with her daughter in tow, Cessie lurches from one apartment, job and toxic romance to the...

"Kagan Goh was born in Singapore in 1969 and emigrated with his family to Canada in 1986. He is a spoken word poet, playwright, actor, mental health advocate and activist. Kagan has been published in several anthologies, including Strike the Wok (TSAR Publications) and Alive at the Center (Ooligan Press), and has also been published in periodicals and magazines such as Ricepaper, Misfit Lit, SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, and Open Minds...

"Left behind in China by her father, Choon-Yi makes her living selling her paintings in the market. After her father writes to ask her to join him in the new world, she discovers that he has since been killed building the railway. Superbly illustrated" Cf. Our choice, 1996-1997.

In a small square on the left bank of the Seine, the door to a green-fronted bookshop beckoned... With gangsters on his tail and his meager savings in hand, crime reporter Jeremy Mercer fled Canada in 1999 and ended up in Paris. Broke and almost homeless, he found himself invited to a tea party amongst the riffraff of the timeless Left Bank fantasy known as Shakespeare & Co. In its present incarnation, Shakespeare & Co. has become a destination for...