Twenty-two Miles is a historical novel about the mid-1920s, narrated by a young competitive swimmer living in New York City, and is based on true historical events. In January 1927, William Wrigley Junior hosted a twenty-two mile race from Catalina Island to Los Angeles, offering $25,000 to the first person to successfully swim the channel and $15,000 to the first female finisher. This race inspires the protagonist to travel to California and participate in one of the most dramatic and fascinating sports events in history.
Crown Shyness
by Curtis Gillespie
"Curtis Gillespie has written a dark and compassionate novel full of the ruptures that tear families apart and the indestructible bonds that hold them together. This is a novel about truth and the sacrifices it demands, love and forgiveness. Gillespie puts the Christian right-wing in his cross-hairs, and with stunning accuracy and deep moral rigour, brings it down. Here is a novel alive with suspense, told with mastery." -Lisa Moore
With its utterly imaginative freedom and instinct for narrative transformation, this unsettling and consistently surprising novel reads like a happy combination of Neil Gaiman and Kelly Link. Savory deserves to make a great impression on both our highly mutable genre and the reading public.-Peter Straub, author of
In the Night Room.
Dancing Nightly in the Tavern by Mark Anthony Jarman
introduction by John Metcalf
Back in print for the first time in a decade, Mark Anthony Jarman's debut collection brought a new sense of urgency to the Canadian short story and remains as compelling today.
"I distinctly feel Bidini is out to secure a connection between the Canadian Consciousness and the brutal-graceful speed dance known as hockey; the rope he uses for that security is sex ... This is an accomplished book, a fast, smooth book, from a pretty damn good raconteur." — Prairie Fire
In this fast-paced and funny novella, a woman takes a nine-year-old
boy out onto the mean streets of Vancouver "in commiseration
of the homeless" and then loses him.
Al, a musician burned out
from too many nights playing covers in lousy bars, returns from
Vancouver to the rural community where he grew up, to find that
things are not what they were...
