Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, and his cub Bear set off on a journey through Toronto to save his severely disfigured sister from a travelling freak show.

All the Broken Things

Douglas Glover

Lynn Coady

Shauna Singh Baldwin

Alden Nowlan

Mark Anthony Jarman

For Goose Lane's diamond anniversary -- an array of six scintillating stories, gems mined from sixty years of Canada's finest publishing and polished to the brightest hues. This multi-volume collection includes the following: Famed poet Alden Nowlan's A Boy's Life of Napoleon, adapted from his first novel, The Wanton Troopers, posthumously published by Goose Lane in 1988 Douglas Glover's strange and affecting Woman Gored by Bison Lives The Three Marys, a Christmas story with a bite, adapted by Lynn Coady from her debut novel, Strange Heaven Simran, a twisting tour-de-force by Shauna Singh Baldwin Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's stunning What Had Become of Us Knife Party, a wild tale of an Italian vacation gone off the rails, from Mark Anthony Jarman's highly anticipated new collection, forthcoming in 2015

Six@sixty

In her early twenties, Alma met a tree-planter and fell in love — not with the man but with his strangely romantic work. Now, after several seasons of planting trees out west, the tough-minded hero of Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's visceral first novel has come home to northern Ontario to help reforest the ravaged landscape with a gang of filthy ex-hippies and idealistic students. Baking by day in the hot sun and tormented by mosquitoes and blackflies, Alma and her fellow planters relieve their backbreaking toil at night with sex, dope, and alcohol. But her brief passionate affair with a charismatic newcomer named Willem raises the ire of Karl (whose amorous attentions she has deflected in the past), and he viciously rapes her. Pregnant and alone, Alma flees to an abandoned mining camp where she and Willem once made love. There, with the help of the camp's single weird inhabitant, she constructs for herself and her unwanted baby an increasingly ominous new life. Weaving together Alma's story with an ancient Flemish folktale about a peasant girl's magical hold over a lustful count, Kuitenbrouwer links the power of narrative with the passion for self-realization. The Nettle Spinner is a gritty, sensuous debut that portrays sex with startling clarity and violence with peculiar tenderness.

The Nettle Spinner

Laird Barron

Jeffrey Ford

James Alan Gardner

Richard Lee Byers

E. L. Chen

A.M. Dellamonica

Jacqueline Baker

ONLY IN CANADA, MR. BOND. . . . In Paris, James Bond meets his match over appetizers and cocktails—with an aperitif of industrial espionage and chilly sadism. Off the coast of Australia, he learns about a whole new level of betrayal under the scorching light of a ball of thunder. In Siberia, he dreams of endless carnage while his fate is decided by one of his most cunning enemies and perhaps the greatest of his many loves. And in Canada—where Ian Fleming’s work has entered public domain—James Bond finds freedom. LICENCE EXPIRED: THE UNAUTHORIZED JAMES BOND lives in this shadow space of copyright law: a collection of nineteen new, exciting, transformative James Bond stories by a diverse crew of 21st-century authors. Collected herein are new stories about Secret Agent 007, as the late Ian Fleming imagined and described him: a psychically wounded veteran of the Second World War and soldier of the Cold War, who treated his accumulated injuries with sex, alcohol, nicotine, and adrenaline. He was a good lover . . . but a terrible prospect. He was James Bond. And in Licence Expired, he’s back in action.

The Unauthorized James Bond

Licence Expired

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

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