Cormorant Books

At the heart of this luminous collection, Pilling’s fifth, is a searing sequence of poems tracing a family’s grief at the suicide of a girl on the threshhold of womanhood: daughter, sister, niece, about-to-be-aunt. Yet in these, as in all of the poems, what comes through is a passionate affirmation of life, of beauty in the world, of human dign …

In this memoir, young Brian Fawcett sets off with his best friend to find the biggest and most beautiful Christmas tree possible for his school: a majestic blue spruce, hidden away in a park in their hometown of Prince George, British Columbia. After chopping their prize down though, the boys learn that the tree is one of a group of trees given to …

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 …

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 …

As if Joe Barley doesn't have enough on his mind. His job as a part-time instructor at Hambleton College is likely to be eliminated, and his partner, Carole, is expecting their first child. He's also been assigned to find the identity of a mole in the English Department who is part of a nasty and embarrassing letterwriting exchange in a student new …

From an old house with gingerbread in Vancouver - where it is possible to tell the days of the week by the smells drifting from the chocolate factory in the basement - to Dresden before the fire-storm, Nicaragua during the time of the Sandinistas, and Berlin in the last days of the war, these stories take us to places where our senses can expand. I …

At the age of seventy, Geoffry Chadwick’s life is ready to begin again.
To commemorate his wife Elinor’s death, seventy-year-old retiree Geoffry
Chadwick plans to hold a grand party in lieu of a memorial service. His decision
indirectly triggers a chain of surprising events: aman namedHarold visits
from Toronto, claiming to be his son from a y …

A rhythm to stand beside is a varied collection, ranging from extended experiments in language (“A brush through a mathematical selection of G”), to a kind of magical lyricism in poems invoking luck and inspiration; from a rambling, cumulatively hilarious ode to Ontario, to poems of plain but searching emotional statement. Hannan has been worki …