Turnstone Press

In the spring of 1966 Ken Leishman stepped onto the tarmac of the Winnipeg Airport and into the pages of Canadian history. By then, the mastermind behind the country’s largest gold heist had already gained Dillingeresque notoriety as a gentlemanly bank robber. Toronto headlines had spread the news about the brazen and polite ‘Flying Bandit’. This time, he almost got away. Almost.

In 1994, Wayne Tefs was diagnosed with carcinoid syndrome. Rollercoaster is an account of his journey from the onset of the disease, to eventually learning to live with it. Both practical and spiritual, the book is a must-read not only for those suffering from cancer, but for their loved ones, caregivers and even for those few whose lives have gone untouched by cancer.

A middle-aged professor falls in love with a student, resulting in the disintegration of his marriage. A sophisticated, ironic retelling of the classic love-triangle story. A look at the ways in which real relationships form and break.

A street-smart punk from Vancouver, an ungainly artist and a reluctant heroine collide with the politics of causes during the tumultuous day of the October Crisis in Montreal. The Cartier Street Contract probes the fragile quality of idealism, the sacrifice it demands and the misplaced devotion it generates.

There's an ominous crack in the surface of the upscale suburban world of The Canasta Players, a world inhabited by Michael Samuels, a middle-aged professor who discovers the good life is a little too rich for his blood.

WINNER: McNally Robinson Book of the Year

An epic Canadian survival tale finds Reinhold Kaletsch, a German doctor, trapped in the middle of a northern Manitoba winter, running low on food and hope.

When a snowstorm cancels Clint Dokic’s flight to Thompson where his pregnant wife Kaly waits, Clint forces his mother and brother into an ill-advised road trip. The blizzard outside is nothing compared to the storm brewing within the 4 x 4.

LaFlamme is an abusive and explosive man who hurts everyone around him. When he meets a violent end, everyone is suspect: his wife and children, whom he tormented, the farm hands he mistreated, and the Native trappers he cheated.