In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he'd be leaving Montreal to paddle 2,400 miles. It was something older men, like his father, did. But when Pierre's father has an accident, Pierre quits school to become a voyageur for the North West... [More...]

This story of one boy's triumph over adversity is set in the Quetico Provincial Park of southern Ontario, adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota. Haunted by the bears chasing him in his dreams, twelve-year-old Danny... [More...]

If you've ever had your tongue stuck to a chainlink fence or yelled mush at your Chevy Nova — this book is for you. If your in-laws have ever come to visit while weather watch systems warn of record-breaking snowfalls — this book is for them. If... [More...]

Seasoned by a strict morality, the small town of Little Cypress in the 1950s seems polite and comfortably indolent. When Fran, pregnant with her illegitimate child, mysteriously moves to town and into the room above Gorkey's General Store, the townsfolk... [More...]

Combining the genres of fiction, memoir, the familiar essay and theoretical speculation, The Rose Garden forms an unusual synthesis. The protagonist and narrator is a Canadian literary scholar on study leave in Germany. While there, her involvement with her... [More...]

Desperate to find a home, a restless, wandering woman determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death. Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts with him to murder... [More...]

A woman hopelessly in love boards the night train to Nykobing, Norway, not knowing if the lover she leaves on the station platform will ever be with her again. "Inside every greeting there is also a farewell", the narrator tells us, and then, through... [More...]

In the tradition of Marguerite Duras, Gunnars explores a multi-layered romance-between East and West, rural and urban, silence and words.

"A sparse but lyrical prose that fully engages the reader."
"-Books in Canada"

"Magical, as delicious... [More...]