Thistledown Press

This atmospheric coming-of-age tale follows Ben, a sensitive boy struggling to unravel his family history while caught in the vortex of other people’s lives.Vancouver Island, 1875. Three-year-old Ben comes to live with Agda and her volatile husband...

These short stories interconnect the friendships of four First Nations people — Everett Kaiswatim, Nellie Gordon, Julie Papequash, and Nathan (Taz) Mosquito — as the collection evolves over two decades against the cultural, political, and historical...

Intergenerational conflicts unfold in a context of environmental change and degradation in this eerily original debut short fiction collection.Emily Paskevics takes her characters–mothers, daughters, fathers, sisters–into the wilderness to lose...

David Carpenter’s collection of essays explores a city boy’s love of the wild, a passion that has enriched his life from boyhood. At 80, this irrepressible Saskatchewan raconteur examines his intense fascination with predators large and small, and his...

A debut novel about the heartbreak of habitat loss and family trauma by one of Canada’s most beloved writer-naturalists.This debut novel by Trevor Herriot is the richly observed story of Nell Rowan, who has inherited her family’s prairie farmstead and...

Set in Prague and narrated with great panache by the 600-year-old Charles Bridge, this novel begins with an elephant named Sál escaping the Prague Zoo. As the elephant moves through the beautiful Czech city, the lives of the men and women she meets...

A delightfully cunning, sharply insightful novel about ambition and subterfuge from the author of the Giller-longlisted novel A Beauty.This novel’s unnamed narrator is so obsessed with the desire to write the biography of her literary hero, the late...

The River Twice, by the Giller-nominated author of the bestselling The Island Walkers, is a gripping new World War I novel set in the Southern Ontario factory town familiar to his many readers, where residents are reeling as the wounded return and the...