Alistair MacLeod’s Island: The Collected Stories (Selected by The National Post’s Brad Frenette)

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“Stunning.… The quality of the writing matches the very best in the world … The stories are about us and here is that rare voice, a unique voice, to illuminate our experience.”
–Edmonton Journal

“The book is a treasure.… These are stories well worth returning to, with layers to uncover gradually.… It doesn’t get any better than this.”
–Toronto Star

“Every story is touched with the beauty and truth of genius”
–Irish Times

Kenneth J. Harvey’s The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (Selected by The National Post’s Brad Frenette)

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*** Kenneth was the first Canadian to ever win Italy’s Libro Del Mare Award, and did so with this novel.

“Haunting, poetic, funny, moving, The Town That Forgot How to Breathe takes on the big themes–the meaning of life, our relationship to the dead, man’’s place in the rapidly changing modern world–and carries everything off with a surging confidence.”
-John Harding, Daily Mail (U.K.)

“Kenneth J. Harvey, a writer like no other, is as knowledgeable as he is adventurous. A very exceptional novel, extraordinary in its power.”
- Alistair MacLeod, IMPAC award-winning author of No Great Mishief and Island

David Adams Richards’ River of the Brokenhearted (Selected by The National Post’s Brad Frenette)

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“Richards is as Shakespearian in his tragicomic humour as in his elemental themes of good and evil, hatred and love . . . . a magnificent tale of forgiveness . . . ablaze with . . . gnarled, powerful and unblinking prose that follows his characters down to their innermost circles of personal hell — and the deep, unfashionable, moral vision that underlies the writing.”
—Maclean’s

“River of the Brokenhearted is a wonderful, sad novel that reflects our capacity for strength, loyalty and forgiveness. With its strong sense of justice, this book is also a testament to the power of faith — in all its many forms.”
—Edmonton Journal

Lisa Moore’s Alligator (selected by Edmonton Journal’s Richard Helm)

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Winner of the 2006 ReLit award, and shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Thomas H. Radall Award.

“Compelling and rewarding … surprisingly emotional, rich with human feeling and insight. Moore has a keen ear for both dialogue and a well-turned phrase.”
- The Quill & Quire

“Lisa Moore is an Astonishing writer. She brings her to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find in the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells, and an unswerving instinct for what’s important in life.”
- Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day

Wayne Johnston’s The Navigator of New York (selected by Edmonton Journal’s Richard Helm)

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The Navigator of New York was shortlisted for the 2002 Giller Prize and GG Award, among other accolades.

“Read this book simply for the force, beauty and accuracy of its images…. Wayne Johnston is the most prodigiously talented and morally complex novelist this country has produced since Mordecai Richler…. I’ll follow his writing anywhere.”
—The Globe and Mail

Beautiful [and] evocative…. Johnston is an accomplished storyteller, with a gift for both description and character, which he uses masterfully here.”
—Booklist