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My Ghosts

From Mary Swan, the bestselling author of the Scotiabank Giller finalist The Boys in the Trees, comes a dazzling and intricate new novel that tracks one family across 150 years, unearthing long-buried secrets and capturing moments that reverberate unexpectedly across the generations. In My Ghosts, with an uncanny eye for the telling detail, Mary Swan brings to […]

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The Boys in the Trees

It is the turn of the twentieth century and William Heath, his wife and two daughters are new immigrants to a small town, and the picture of a devoted family. But when accusations of embezzlement spur William to commit an unthinkable crime, those who believed him to be an affectionate, attentive father are brought up short. […]

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Emma’s Hands

The stories in this highly praised collection first appeared in Harper’s, The Ontario Review and the Malahat Review, and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories, Emergent Voices and Sudden Fiction (Continued). Their settings range from post-Franco Spain to an Israeli kibbutz, from small town Ontario to the beach at Ostend in the early 20th […]

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The Deep

The Deep is a vivid, accomplished tale of twin sisters caught up in the mania that was World War I. The year is 1918. Esther and Ruth, living a life privileged and protected, embark upon a journey to France that will profoundly affect their relationship with each other, those they leave behind and those they […]