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| Title: Alternate Plains |
| Sub-title: Stories of Prairie Speculative Fiction |
| Edited by: Darren Ridgley, Darren Ridgley, Adam Petrash, Adam Petrash |
| ISBN10-13: 1773370642 : 9781773370644 |
| A man runs for his life from the promise of death held by trees; a lost VHS tape offers footage of a lost, grisly history; a diaspora clings to magical shards of home and more in this collection of genre fiction by authors from across the Canadian Prairies.A follow-up to 2018's hit, Parallel Prairies. |
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Pages: 160
Size: 215x140mm
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - October 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Short stories |
| List Price: 9.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 12 |
| Title: 1 of: 27 |
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| Title: Art Lessons |
| By (author): Katherine Koller |
| ISBN10-13: 1927855497 : 9781927855492 |
| Art Lessons is in the voice of Cassie from a seven-year-old to seventeen, when she finally leaves home for art school. She discovers the transformative power of visual art in herself and on the lives of others. Cassie lives in a family of sports nuts, sheâ s a loner and easily distracted by boyfriends, but in love with trees, her inspiration for drawing, and the process of art-making, which to her feels like floating. While unlikely teachers of all ages challenge her, her Polish grandmother, Babci, is an intuitive guide on Cassieâ s path to becoming an artist. Through her own heightened observational skills and awareness of her difference, Cassie is saved by her art, changing as the trees she continues to draw over time. |
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Pages: 191
Size: 203.2x139.7mm
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - October 2016 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 2 of: 27 |
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| Title: Brief Life |
| Sub-title: A Novel |
| By (author): Kevin Marc Fournier, Kevin Marc Fournier |
| ISBN10-13: 1773370812 : 9781773370811 |
| "Amid these magical realist happenings and horror motifs, Brief Life is a small-town coming-of-age story that explores family and community secrets, social status, and how teenage girls discover the world through trial and error, as well as books. Whittle is filled with puzzling people and events; it contains mysterious multitudes that are worth trying to decipher." - Literary Review of Canada Returning to some of the characters first introduced in his award-winning novel The Green-Eyed Queen of Suicide City to tell a unique and all-new tale, Kevin Marc Fournier's Brief Life is the story of a fraught but lifelong friendship; the chronicle of a small town with a bizarre and tangled history; a multi-generational family saga of ghosts, dreams, visions, and visitations, of strange dogs, secret magic, and mysterious disappearances; a maze of funhouse mirrors, grotesque, poignant, and fantastical. |
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Pages: 288
Size: 215.9x139.7mm
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - October 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Horror & ghost stories |
| List Price: 9.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 3 of: 27 |
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| Title: Catch You On The Flipside |
| Sub-title: a novel |
| By (author): Lee Kvern, Lee Kvern |
| ISBN10-13: 1773371320 : 9781773371320 |
| "If gambling intrigue, bear attacks, and political kleptocracy are at all your pet subjects, this may be the book youâ ve been waiting for." â Jean Marc Ah-Sen, author of In the Beggarly Style of Imitation In 1983, Elle is a blackjack dealer at an Alberta casino. At the same time, Amado is a baggage handler in Manila. When Amado witnesses the assassination of a prominent political figure in Manila, he flees to Canada and ends up in the same casino as Elle, disgruntled Hollander, Erik, and card counter and stalker, regrettable Calvin. Over the next thirty years, the characters remain intimately connected as their stories and histories intersect. Told from alternating points of view, this puzzle-in-progress brings each character's pieces together that make up a whole picture that examines how everything from political espionage to intimate partner violence affects not only its direct participants but also its bystanders and witnesses. |
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Pages: 252
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - May 2025 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Horror & ghost stories |
| List Price: 9.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 22 |
| Title: 4 of: 27 |
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| Title: Famous Last Meals |
| By (author): Richard Cumyn |
| ISBN10-13: 1927855179 : 9781927855171 |
| Famous Last Meals is a trio of contemporary novellas about the roles we play in an age when everyone is an actor. The curtain opens on â Candidates,â a gentle satire starring a recent university grad who knows and cares little about politics but who finds himself working as a summer intern on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. â Famous Last Mealsâ examines two couples and their complex relationship as they re-enact the final repasts of famous people who died before the age of 30. â The Woman in the Vineyardâ completes the triptych with a compulsive story about literary jealousy and the danger of becoming lost in the labyrinth of another writerâ s sources. |
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"As Richard Cumyn proves in this collection of three short works, when pulled off correctly, the novella can be more satisfying and layered than even the most complex novel." -- Michael Melgaard, Maple Tree Literary Supplement
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"Cumyn’s novellas hark back to the intrigue and nostalgic elegance of manly works from the 1920s: a sort of cross between Maurice Dekobra and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." -- Kathleen Winter
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"Simply masterful, three nimble novellas that are sensual, smart, and very funny. This rich volume boasts a crowded cast of travelers and dancers and vineyard denizens, and political satire that is poker-faced, yet strangely giddy, an odd reality of harmony and discord, a weird mirror land that is us, and piquant prose so good it must be fattening." -- Mark Anthony Jarman, author of Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
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"the prose and characterization are so good that I trust them at least as much as myself." -- Literary Review of Canada
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"moments of astute political satire, contrasted with interpersonal challenges and communications breakdowns." -- Winnipeg Free Press
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"Cumyn has absolute control over the very clear and clever narration of his characters, and can draw them into madness and violence without also drawing his prose into histrionics." -- Antigonish Review
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"Famous Last Meals is a welcome addition to Richard Cumyn's oeuvre and adds fuel to the argument that he is among the best writers of short (and medium length) fiction working today." -- Ian Colford, author of The Crimes of Hector Tomás and Evidence
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Pages: 280
Size: 203.2x139.7mm
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - April 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Short stories |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 5 of: 27 |
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| Title: Godless but Loyal to Heaven |
| Sub-title: Stories |
| By (author): Richard Van Camp |
| ISBN10-13: 1926531736 : 9781926531731 |
| In Richard Van Camp's fictionalized north anything can happen and yet each story is rooted in a vivid contemporary reality. The stories offer a potent mix of tropes from science fiction, horror, Western and Aboriginal traditions. The title story pits Torchy against Smith Squad, fighting for love and family in a bloody, cathartic, and ultimately hopeful narrative. Van Camp's characters repeatedly confront the bleakness of sexual assault, substance addiction and violence with the joy and humour of inspired storytelling. |
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"Powerful! An original voice from the true north strong and free." - Tomson Highway "Gripping, graphic and insightful, Godless but Loyal to Heaven opens up the human heart and lets the reader watch it pumping. Van Camp slips in and out of characters like a shapeshifter, introducting poetry and the fantastic into a brutal landscape." - Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach "Godless but Loyal to Heaven is a fierce look at all the dehumanized aspects of our world as it is, written courageously, poignantly and beautifully."- Lee Maracle "Prepare to be shocked and seared, moved at times to tears when you read Van Camp's work. You'll be taken on a series of journeys that you will not forget." - Joseph Bruchac, author of Our Stories Remember "Richard Van Camp successfully melds aborigninal traditions with a fictional contemporary North in his new short story collection."- Winnipeg Free Press "Hard-nosed but thin-skinned, sturdy yet totally off the wall, Richard Van Camp's Godless but Loyal to Heaven is such a vibrant story collection that I'm kicking myself for only getting around to it now"-Edmonton Journal - -
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Pages: 204
Size: 215.9x152.4mm
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - February 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Short stories |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Title: 6 of: 27 |
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| Title: Gracelessland |
| By (author): Adam Lindsay Honsinger |
| ISBN10-13: 1927855144 : 9781927855140 |
| Itâ s 1978, the year after Elvis Presley died, and Kepler Pressler is a sixteen-year-old Toronto kid with an obsessive attachment to his sock monkey, a tendency to burst into tears, a mother with a nail fetish and a fondness for Shakespeare, and a father who says he works for the Space Agency and disappears a lot. Is dad dead? And what exactly happened on Keplerâ s 16th birthday? He is devoting a year to figuring it out in a mental health institute. |
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"The son of an alcoholic, taxi-driving, amateur astronomer and a disillusioned manicurist, Kepler Pressler – the anti-hero of Adam Honsinger’s startlingly assured first novel – does for the family-dysfunction novel what Elvis did for rock 'n roll: he makes it bluesier, edgier, funnier, better." -- Annabel Lyon
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"admirably zany without ever tipping into quirk." -- The Winnipeg Review
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"Nervy, audacious domestic drama with the guile and electricity of a Presley hip swivel, Gracelessland proves what many of us have long suspected: Honsinger is a writer of immeasurable talent, and family is an affliction from which few recover." -- Nancy Lee
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"The broad-strokes familiarity of the overarching narrative allows Kepler’s personal peculiarities – and Honsinger's skills as a writer – to shine through ... a novel that feels fresh, rich, and heavy with the thrum of life." – Robert Wiersema, Quill and Quire
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Pages: 280
Size: 205x140mm
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - May 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 7 of: 27 |
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| Title: Homebodies |
| Sub-title: Short Stories |
| By (author): Amy LeBlanc, Amy Leblanc |
| ISBN10-13: 1773371010 : 9781773371016 |
"Homebodies will leave readers entertained and enlightenedâ and maybe a little terrified." â Literary Review of Canada
"LeBlanc surprises and disturbs, to the reader's intense anguish - in this collection's case, a good thing." â Winnipeg Free Press
"Original, inherently fascinating, and with a narrative storytelling style that is ideal for Gothic fiction and the short story format... a highly recommended pick." â Midwest Book Review
Homebodies is an uncanny and ghostly debut with stories that provoke dread, abjection, and horror. The tales are intertwined and linked like a chain of dried daisies or butterfly legs: someone you used to know is on trial for murder. You work at a funeral home. Your dead grandmother calls you on the phone. You pin and preserve butterflies on a corkboard as a strange girl knocks on your door. You put a bike lock on the fridge. You sleepwalk. You attend a party. You get sick. You get an IV infusion. You don't get better.
The stories in Homebodies show that you don't need a house to be haunted - the body can do that all on its own. |
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“Surfaces deceive. LeBlanc’s deliciously creepy stories revel in pushing past the limitations of the body, of the domestic, and of the known even when this means guts are going to spill. In the tradition of writers such as Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Lisa Tuttle, these stories disorient and slide from the familiar and dreamy and into the nightmarish in the most thrilling of ways. LeBlanc kidnaps the reader and takes them on an unforgettable, screamingly great ride.” – Suzette Mayr, winner of the Giller Prize
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“Amy LeBlanc’s Homebodies is like a slow, sliding kaleidoscope of dreams. A series of glimpses into strained, disjointed families and communities, the book follows a network of disquieting characters with wounds—both figurative and very literal—that fester and pulse. The stories feel like admissions, like muffled secrets passed behind closed doors. They are fragmented but nonetheless full—dense and swollen with the characters’ blunted fears, their stark needs. LeBlanc’s writing is a shudder running through the body: a sensation that is visceral, reflexive, and inescapable. Like a boa snake constricting, like peristalsis, these stories will swallow you whole.” – Erica McKeen, author of Tear
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“Amy LeBlanc’s uncanny, open-ended stories perfectly capture the ambiguous anxieties of our pandemic times. This is an engrossing, contemporary, well-arranged collection with novelistic immersiveness.” – Seyward Goodhand, author of Even That Wildest Hope
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“In Homebodies, Amy LeBlanc moves time forward and backward, and mostly–underneath–families, lovers, cats and friends. In these stories, growing up doesn’t lighten the dark, understanding doesn’t sweeten the lot, sadness and despair compete with spirit for space. It’s LeBlanc who makes darkness palatable with her poignancy and poetic touch. Don’t plan on putting Homebodies down after you pick it up. ” – Susie Moloney, author The Thirteen and The Dwelling
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Pages: 168
Size: 215x145mm
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - May 2023 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Horror & ghost stories : Romance : Short stories |
| List Price: 9.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Title: 8 of: 27 |
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| Title: Madder Carmine |
| By (author): Tyler Enfield |
| ISBN10-13: 1927855306 : 9781927855300 |
| Winner of the High Plains Book AwardSelected for the Moonbeam AwardAfter three years in the Mexican War, colour-blind Dannon Lereaux sets out across the mountains in search of â love, red, and a new class of salvation,â expecting to find all three in a girl called Madder Carmine.Set in the year 1849, amidst a vividly reconceived Appalachia, young Dannon has returned from the war only to discover home was finer when remembered from afar. Disenchanted and confused, he puts all hope of deliverance in a girl he once met and embarks on an epic journey to find her. But hard on his trail is Will Lawson, the vengeful owner of the slave Dannon stole.As Dannon is pushed deeper into the world of the hunted, his mind slips into a world of its own. Suddenly the mountains of his youth are transformed into the Nine Circles of Hell and the slave named Virgil becomes his soul-guide through the underworld. With this notion firm in his mind, Dannon commends himself to a surreal journey as he seeks redemption in the heart of the Inferno. |
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"Many archetypal themes and great works of world literature come together in this story from 1849 Appalachia" -- CM Magazine
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"Tyler Enfield's Appalachia is both dreamlike and tangible, and Dannon's spiritual adventures are as compelling as his enacted ones. The novel moves elegantly and effectively between the lyrical and historical, the concrete and the conceptual, the personal and the universal. It's intelligent, and poetic, but it’s also a page-turner." -- Maple Tree Literary Supplement
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"In Madder Carmine, novelist Tyler Enfield channels Mark Twain and Dante Alighieri and pulls it off beautifully. A thousand writers could try this trick and a thousand writers would very likely mess it up – Enfield succeeds brilliantly. This is a mind-bending and delightful journey. In the same frenetic vein as Patrick Dewitt’s genre-bashing novels, Tyler Enfield’s Madder Carmine is a few steps above and vividly beyond. Enfield is an exceptional writer and clearly, a novelist to watch." -- Thomas Trofimuk, author of Waiting for Columbus
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"It is a rare book that slides a cliffhanger and perplexing scenario onto the first page and then deftly pulls a contented reader along to page 110 ... Enfield owns a deftness to create characters you wish were real and a phrase so authentic to the setting and time of his story that you slip away from the noise of the world." -– Rat Creek Press
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"It is a rare book that slides a cliffhanger and perplexing scenario onto the first page and then deftly pulls a contented reader along to page 110 ... Enfield owns a deftness to create characters you wish were real and a phrase so authentic to the setting and time of his story that you slip away from the noise of the world." – Rat Creek Press
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"In Madder Carmine, novelist Tyler Enfield channels Mark Twain and Dante Alighieri and pulls it off beautifully. A thousand writers could try this trick and a thousand writers would very likely mess it up – Enfield succeeds brilliantly. This is a mind-bending and delightful journey.
In the same frenetic vein as Patrick Dewitt’s genre-bashing novels, Tyler Enfield’s Madder Carmine is a few steps above and vividly beyond. Enfield is an exceptional writer and clearly, a novelist to watch." -- Thomas Trofimuk
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Pages: 280
Size: 205x140mm
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - September 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Title: 9 of: 27 |
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| Title: Night Moves |
| By (author): Richard Van Camp |
| ISBN10-13: 1927855233 : 9781927855232 |
As a window into the magic and medicine of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious and heartbreaking. A teenaged boy confesses to a vicious assault on a cross-dressing classmate; Lance tells the sensual story of becoming much closer to his wife's dear friend Juanita; while a reluctant giant catches up with gangsters Torchy and Sfen in a story with shades of supernatural and earthly menace. Night Moves continues to explore the incredible lives of indigenous characters introduced in The Lesser Blessed, Angel Wing Splash Pattern, The Moon of Letting Go, and Godless but Loyal to Heaven. If this is your first time to Fort Simmer and Fort Smith, welcome. If it's another visitâ come on in: we've left the lights on for you. |
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"An original voice from the true north strong and free." - Tomson Highway"For readers who are familiar with Van Camp's earlier work, this book is an absolute dream. If Night Moves is your first introduction to Van Camps's world, his sexy, seedy prose will beg you to read more. [editor's note: you should go read more. Now.]" - Rabble.ca"More importantly, the stories continue Van Camp's penchant for slow builds towards powerful, sudden shifts in the plot that transform the story situation." - Winnipeg Free Press "Van Camp has a skill at slipping into the skin of each of his characters in a way that always pulls me in." - News/North"This group of 11 electrifying and sometimes horrifying tales †several revisiting characters from Van Camp’s previous books †teems with violence, shame, desire for revenge, sexuality, the supernatural, and hard-won second chances ... A book to be absorbed slowly and deliberately, one story at a time, Night Moves is a dark and diverse collection with unforgettable characters, deep wisdom, and painful truths." †Starred Review, Quill & Quire - -
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Pages: 200
Size: 215.9x139.7mm
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| Published: Enfield & Wizenty - October 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Short stories |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 10 of: 27 |
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