The Ballroom by Abraham Boyarsky
232 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | ISBN 978-1-926716-83-1

In a near-future Quebec, years after separation from Canada has plunged the province into economic collapse, Montreal is a city of shuttered storefronts, skeletal grocery shelves, and huddled figures warming themselves over barrel fires. The Imperial Meridian Hotel — once a jewel on Sherbrooke Street — stands as a monument to bygone grandeur, its grand ballroom reborn as a gambling hall where the desperate gather. Here, Walter, a war veteran haunted by his tours in Afghanistan, and his sixteen-year-old daughter Bella spend their days in an arcane ritual of survival…

ESTUARIES by Tiago Silva
228 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | ISBN 978-1-926716-81-7

First published in 1941, ESTUARIES (Esteiros) is a harrowing and poetic portrayal of child labor, poverty, and resistance in the industrial outskirts of Portugal — and one of the most vital works of 20th-century Portuguese literature. This first English translation by Tiago Silva brings to Anglophone readers Soeiro Pereira Gomes' searing portrait of working-class life under the Salazar dictatorship. In giving voice to "the sons of men who were never children," Pereira Gomes captured the brutal realities of working-class youth with lyrical clarity and historical urgency. Set among the esteiros

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BORROWED MEMORIES by Mark Foss
228 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | ISBN 978-1-926716-78-7

Ivan Pyefinch, a freelance translator, has appointed himself custodian of the family story. Returning to the Thousand Islands for the summer to care for his aging parents, he finds the ground shifting beneath him. His father Horace, a former WWII pilot, is fighting to keep his driver's licence — a last stand against the erosion of independence. His mother Aida wages a quieter, more devastating battle against Alzheimer's. Ivan, caught between the parents who shaped him and the duty he owes them, discovers that the past doesn't stay neatly filed. Enter Mia Hakim, an immigrant filmmaker who has

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PERESTROIKA - AN EYE FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH by João Cerqueira
398 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | ISBN 978-1-926716-77-0

In the turbulent landscape of an alternate Europe, as the specter of Perestroika sweeps across the continent, communist regimes crumble and a new era dawns in the People's Republic of Slavia. In the corridors of power, former leaders grapple with the harsh reality of change, while those who suffered under their rule seek justice and revenge. At the heart of the chaos stands Lia Kirchner, a woman driven by the shadows of her father's tragic fate in a re-education camp. As she embarks on a quest for truth, her path intertwines with a gallery of the fallen and the rising: President Alfred

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THE HARVESTING OF HAYSTACKS KANE by Steve Schlam
348 pages | 5.25" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-70-1

Haystacks Kane, whose real name is Herschel Cain, is a 607-pound professional wrestler and dedicated butterfly collector. Despite his imposing size, Haystacks possesses an innate kindness and gentle nature — traits ruthlessly exploited by unscrupulous promoters, conniving managers, and an ex-wife who continues to demand alimony. The world of professional wrestling he inhabits is filled with sordid characters and raucous crowds, all eager for violent, cheap thrills at his expense. The story begins in the aftermath of a disastrous match against his archrival Valentino. Gravely injured and

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DON'T EXPECT THE SUN TO SHINE
178 pages | 203mm x 203mm | ISBN 978-1-926716-64-0

A wake for a poet. A wake for a country. DON'T EXPECT THE SUN TO SHINE is a genre-defying collaboration between Richard Rathwell and Harold Rhenisch — part theatre, part poetry, part cultural exorcism — that stages a funeral for the great Canadian-American poet Robin Blaser and, in the same breath, for the idea of Canada itself. In this transcultural work of extraordinary formal ambition, Rathwell and Rhenisch dissolve the boundaries between poetry and prose, performance and page, elegy and celebration. The book's square format mirrors its radical geometry: a space where voices overlap, where

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AN ANTHOLOGY OF EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE
Edited by Beatrice Lamwaka & Joshua Mali
344 pages | 6" x 9' | ISBN 978-1-926716-61-9

"This is not just a collection of poems and short stories; it is a granary of artistic abundance! For here, will you find a rich variety of masterfully crafted pieces in a range of style, including those that draw from the African oral storytelling tradition. It is a montage of pieces of literary art, curated in a manner that allows for the ‘strict grammarian’ forms of expression to coalesce with those given to poetic licentiousness."

Whichever your favourite genre is, this anthology of East African literature has delivered something that has not been served to readers in many years. It is a fitting gift to the lovers of literary art in this first quarter of the 21st century.

300+ pages, 50+ contributors, 10+ countries

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SITHANA BURNING by Somsy Camvan
196 pages | 5.25" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-74-9

In a remote village of Laos, rival gangs plot to seize control of the land and exploit its resources for their own gain. But when their plans are threatened by Sithana's appearance, a deadly chain of events is set in motion that will test the limits of loyalty, courage, and love. When Sithana returns to Laos from Canada to bury his family and avenge their deaths, he finds himself drawn to Viengvilay, a woman who understands his pain and shares his desire for justice. Meanwhile, in the bustling city of Luang Prabang, Touy Silavong is a rising star in the world of organized crime. With vivid

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THROUGH SHADOWS SLOW by Abraham Boyarsky
176 pages | 5.5" x 8.25" | ISBN 978-1-926716-57-2 (pbk.)

Daniel is in the twilight of his life, tormented by doubts — of cuckolding, an illegitimate son, his late wife's "dissolute" nature, the horrors of war, and the inanity of all human activity. A miraculous childhood survivor of the Nazi prison camps, Daniel is shipped to Canada after the war, a refugee and an orphan. Processed in Montreal and diagnosed with TB, he is sent to the renowned Sainte-Agathe hospital in the Laurentian Mountains, where the clear air might benefit his health. During his recovery, Daniel meets his future wife, Gilla, and must grapple with memories of the war, the

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GOD'S WIFE & THE SYNONYMOUS X by Jesse Chase
170 pages | 5.5 x 8 | ISBN 978-1-926716-43-5 | Info Sheet:; pdf, jpg

A story of capitalism, schizophrenia, and anti-oedipal Babylon. Follow Cal as he goes through the gravity of an eclipse and psychotic episode while walking around present-day Montreal, Turtle Island. Finding all of history and culture appropriated by imperialist and racist perspectives inimical to his own self, the protagonist must construct his own program of decolonization and dismantle the philosophic mindspace of the inhuman ideologies and oppressive technologies he has inherited. GOD'S WIFE & THE SYNONYMOUS X is a story about the self-recovery of personal narrative from the historical

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THE WAR OF NONEXISTENT WOMEN by Jason Price Everett
5.5 x 8 | 220 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-51-0 Info Sheet

A novel of radical formal ambition from the author of UNFICTIONS. THE WAR OF NONEXISTENT WOMEN continues Jason Price Everett's exploration of the limits of narrative, language, and identity — a work that interrogates absence, erasure, and the violence of representation itself. Everett marshals his characteristic arsenal of formal techniques — fragmentation, collage, typographical disruption, voices from the margins — to construct a text that is simultaneously a war cry and a lament.

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EMPIRE BURLESQUE by Charles Talkoff
276 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-42-8 (pbk.) | Info Sheet: pdf, jpg

Charles Talkoff's EMPIRE BURLESQUE is the inaugural novel in a projected trilogy — an existential detective story for a fractured America. Drawing the reader into a post-9/11 paranoid landscape where continuity has been shattered and meaning itself has become a fugitive, the novel channels the spirit of Burroughs and Pynchon through an unmistakably original voice. Information arrives without context. The plot doubles back, contradicts itself, dissolves. This is fiction as burlesque — a farcical, Faustian fog where Trumpian characters define reality and distort reason, and where the ancient

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LOCK 7 by Dean Serravalle
230 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-50-3 | Info Sheet

Leo Meurso is a condemned man. A mercenary and assassin gone AWOL, he returns to his hometown on the Welland Canal after two decades in the shadows — but he has only one day. His best friend's wake. His high school sweetheart's wedding. Both on the same day, in the same small canal town where every face holds a memory and every memory holds a reckoning. What follows is a journey through the ghosts of a life: family, old friends, enemies, past secrets, sexual deviances, and nostalgic memories — all rising to meet Leo as he navigates the narrow lock between judgment and redemption. Dean

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THE CHASSIDIC TRAUMA UNIT by Abraham Boyarsky
5. 5 x 8 | 228 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-40-4 (pbk.)

When Mrs. Batya Herzog calls the Chassidic Trauma Unit from a Walmart on Décarie, frantically screaming about her husband Binyomin, the phone goes dead — and Sender Pleskin, founder of the Unit, arrives to find Binyomin's body hanging by a belt in the men's washroom. What follows is a masterful exploration of faith, community, and the crushing weight of orthodoxy in contemporary Montreal. Sender Pleskin navigates the impossible distance between the insular Bubmer Community and the secular world beyond its walls — a world of smartphones, libraries, and dangerous questions. As the rabbis

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THE MATCHSTICK GIRL by Suzanne Hocking
5 x 8 | 238 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-34-3

YELENA walks the frozen line between cold and poverty on the streets of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg. When fortune briefly shines on her, she catches a glimpse of hopes and unknown joys she never imagined could have been within her reach. But as soon as it appears, it is taken from her. Obsession takes hold, and as the years pass, she grows to want far more than what the life of a young girl of the streets can offer. Through luck and deceit, she lands a place at the esteemed Smolny Institute for Noble Girls, where the young women of the Russian court are taught mathematics, literature,

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ENSEMBLE by Thomas Phillips
4.72 x 7.48 | 148 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-29-9

Set in Montreal, ENSEMBLE takes us through the throes of existential crises as lives and marriages are overturned by a man's restless yearning. A philosopher is suddenly forced to face the questions he lectures on when they materialize out of the theoretical and into the practical after he falls for a student in his class. Meanwhile, his wife — an accomplished musician — is left to deal with the disintegration of their marriage and the new silence that descends upon her life as she dissects her husband's inner workings and confronts the object of his desire. Told in clinical honesty and prose

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CROSSING TO TADOUSSAC by Frederick E. Bryson
438 pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 978-1-926716-00-8

The FLQ have bombed the Montreal Stock Exchange. The streets are charged and a referendum is called on secession. CROSSING TO TADOUSSAC is a novel about a woman coming of age in Quebec during the years of the Quiet Revolution. With the political turmoil in the province mirroring the psychological conflict in her person, our heroine finds herself searching for the balance of freedom and liberation in her own life while witnessing this same internal struggle reproduced in the conflict of her people coming to maturity and seizing their place in the world. She quickly understands that to realize

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SPOILERS by Mark Foss
5.25 x 8 | 193 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-08-4 | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99

A single act by Dr. Mahlon Locke — a Depression-era physician whose foot-pulling technique drew tens of thousands of pilgrims to small-town Ontario — ripples across decades in Mark Foss's formally inventive SPOILERS. Through interconnected narratives spanning generations, Foss traces the invisible threads that bind dreamers, charlatans, authors, and the ordinary people whose lives are reshaped by forces they cannot name. At the heart of the novel, a woman decodes vintage postcards in a desperate attempt to reconstruct — and save — herself. Around her, a constellation of characters wrestle

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THE AMERICAN GHOST by Somsy Camvan
5 x 8 | 296 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-36-7 (pbk.) | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99

From the author of SITHANA BURNING comes another work of historical fiction that bridges the worlds of Laos and the West. THE AMERICAN GHOST continues Somsy Camvan's exploration of displacement, identity, and the lingering shadows of war — themes drawn from the author's own extraordinary journey from a Khmu village in northern Laos to a quiet life in rural Quebec.

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ARIELLE QUEEN - BOOK I by Michel Levesque / Greg Kelm
5 x 8. 130 pages, ISBN 978-1-926716-32-9 (pbk.)

The Dark Elves have invaded Midgard. From the shadows of the Nine Realms, ancient forces stir — and an unlikely teenager may be the Valinn, the Chosen One destined to save them all. ARIELLE QUEEN – BOOK I launches Michel Levesque's epic fantasy series with the force of a Norse saga and the heart of a coming-of-age adventure. Translated from the original French by Greg Kelm, this first volume plunges readers into a world drawn from the deep well of Norse mythology: gods and monsters, dark elves and ancient prophecies, realms suspended on the World Tree and heroes forged in fire. Arielle, our

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THE LOVE SONG OF J. EDGAR HOOVER by Charles Talkoff
5 x 8 | 302 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-10-7 | Softcover & Hardcover

"Come metropolis soldiers, where I am spread against the sky like a prisoner in your slinky cuffs of discipline…" In the secret womb, the special agents come and go, saying nothing. Charles Talkoff's THE LOVE SONG OF J. EDGAR HOOVER channels the ghost of Eliot through the surveillance state, transforming the longest-serving FBI director into a figure of mythic absurdity. Part prose poem, part fever dream, part political exorcism, this novel tunnels through the labyrinths of power, paranoia, and the American century with hallucinatory intensity. Drawing on the Tarot, the Kabbalah, and the dark

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JUMP THE DEVIL by Richard Rathwell
5 x 8 | 146 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-11-4 | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99

Five lives. Five continents. One invisible web. In JUMP THE DEVIL, Richard Rathwell performs a literary high-wire act — interweaving five seemingly unrelated storylines into a single, shimmering global narrative. A man in a crawlspace. A woman with her cart. A doctor in an African village serving patients who may not exist. A girl celebrating New Year's. An Egyptian revolutionary staring at a computer screen. Through subtle clues and accumulating resonance, Rathwell challenges readers to decipher the connections that bind these disparate lives across oceans and cultures. Rathwell's prose has

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ACCOUNTING FOR CRIME by Richard King
5 x 8 . 308 pages. ISBN 978-1-926716-07-7. | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99

Robert Scroyle is a senior partner at Scroyle, Caitiff, Rudisbe and Spavin — a Montreal accounting firm where the ledgers are balanced but the morals are not. When a cosmetics founder shows up with an "accounting problem" and an underworld figure needs large sums of cash to disappear, Scroyle's carefully ordered world begins to unravel. What starts as a creative tax scheme spirals into a vortex of kidnapping, undercover police operations, love triangles, and cold-blooded calculation — all set against the backdrop of a city where the line between legitimate business and organized crime has

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UNFICTIONS by Jason Price Everett
288 pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 978-0-9809108-6-5 (pbk.) | US $18.88 CAD $23.99 UK £14.99

"It can be said of sacred time that it is always the same…" UNFICTIONS is a kaleidoscopic anti-narrative that dissolves the boundary between fiction and reality, prose and poetry, self and other. A collection of short prose pieces that reads like a single sustained act of literary rebellion, the book assembles the detritus of a life lived between continents — radio transmissions, boarding passes, love letters, terrorist bombings, museum tickets, and philosophical aphorisms — into something approaching sacred text. Drawing on the cut-up traditions of Burroughs and the formal provocations of

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UNWANTED HOPELESS ROMANTIC MORONS by Geoffrey Alexander Parsons
172 pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 978-0-9809108-9-6 (pbk.) | US $15.88 CAD $19.99 UK £11.99

They left suburbia for the cities, chasing something they couldn't name. What they found was worse. UNWANTED HOPELESS ROMANTIC MORONS captures the disconnected youth of a generation hitch-hiking across the vastness of Canada — lured by promises of freedom and finding only further alienation, disappointment, and the slow erosion of hope. Through the eyes of Tom, a young man drifting from one exploit to another, Geoffrey Alexander Parsons charts a landscape of substance abuse, casual cruelty, and the innocent yearnings of youth colliding with a wasteland of nihilistic greed and narcotic egoism.

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THE JIHADIST
93 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | ISBN: 978-0-9809108-8-9 (pbk.) | US $15.88 CAD $19.99 UK £11.99

A young man stands at a crossroads. Around him, a world of violent revenge, ideological seduction, and the promise of belonging that extremism whispers to the dispossessed. In THE JIHADIST, Emery More delivers a sensitive, morally ambiguous portrait of a generation searching for meaning in the ruins of identity — a novella that refuses the easy consolations of either condemnation or exoneration. Written with the compression and intensity of a long-distance runner, THE JIHADIST traces the psychological terrain of radicalization not as a sudden break but as a slow, almost imperceptible drift —

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