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Nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize, A Casual Brutality is a powerful, dark novel about the failure of a decent man to come to terms with the moral disintegration of the Caribbean island of his birth.

Casaquemada is a fragile West Indian republic divided by racial antagonism, lured into a spurious nati …

Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal - and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become.
In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy …

World-famous photographer Lorne Winter tumbles from a plane to his death in the flames of a spectacular forest fire in northern Ontario which he's been shooting - an event telecast live across North America. This stunning public death wrenches from the past a series of revelations and discoveries. For the plane's pilot, Sally Groves - who was Lorne …

No longer amused by the peculiarities of the customers and the kinds of beer that can be brewed at Pilchak's U-Brew Palace, Brewmaster Bill (as he refers to himself) expands his journal to write a book about the people he knows. The resulting novel, however, is far more than a transcription of the lives of Brewmaster's friends.

With the assurance of …

Barry Laverty, M.B., is looking forward to his first Christmas in the cozy village of Ballybucklebo, at least until he learns that his sweetheart, Patricia, might not be coming home for the holidays. That unhappy prospect dampens his spirits somewhat, but Barry has little time to dwell on his romantic disappointments. Christmas may be drawing nigh, …