In lush full colour, award-winning photographer Mike Grandmaison’s expert lens captures the vastness of sky and land that define the prairie landscape.
Read moreJenkins never dreamed he’d live long enough to be dating again. Hilarious, touching, and a little saucy, Dating proves that life is full of surprises no matter how old you are.
Read moreSouth Africa is long way from Canada. In 1899, two prairie boys throw themselves into the conflict of the Second Boer War looking for something their small-town lives cannot provide. With breathtaking grace, Leo Brent Robillard delivers an unstoppable story.
Read moreJoin Randy Craig for a roller coaster read with more twists than the Mindbender. Hang on to your hat for Hang Down Your Head. It’s Janice MacDonald at the top of her game. —Suzanne North, author of the Phoebe Fairfax
Read more"Sound the trumpets! Sally Ito’s Alert to Glory is a clarion call … A transformative book both salt and sweet." — Susan McCaslin
Read more"This witty meditation on manly manliness is a head-butt at academic pretension and the Sword of Damocles that is the PhD thesis. A new novel so good, you’ll actually finish it." - Al Rae, Artistic Director, CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival.
Read moreWhat the Bear Said is a marvellous collection of fables. The stories are immediate, the characters, both human and supernatural, crackle with life . . . —W. P. Kinsella
Read moreWinnipeg artist and designer, Robert J. Sweeney, captures Winnipeg’s urban landscape in this remarkable collection of sketches, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink.
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Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Historical Fiction, Honourable Mention (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).
This novel tells how our heroine comes to a northern Manitoba mining town during the 1934 labour dispute and changes the town forever.
“. . . filled with energy and exuberance.”
Birk Sproxton (1943 - 2007) was a Canadian poet and novelist who lived in Red Deer, Alberta.
Birk Sproxton was born and raised in Flin Flon, Manitoba, a town named for a fictional character, where he grew up listening to tall tales of the north. He studied in Winnipeg before moving west to Alberta where he taught creative writing at Red Deer College for over three decades.
In 1999, Birk's book The Red Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart received an honorable mention from the Manitoba Historical Society for historical fiction.
Upon his passing in 2007 the Dr. Birk Sproxton Memorial Award for Excellence in Western Canadian Literature was established at Red Deer College.
