She has been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award. Her first novel The Family Took Shape, won the Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Over the years, through struggling through a MFA, online dating and how best to guide her students, she discovers that the past is never far behind her.īhat is an award-winning writer who lives in New Westminster, B.C. And she also won't talk about a life changing incident in high school. When she was 14, she preferred to keep quiet about quite a few things, such as her crush on her English teacher, her mother's attempts to match her up with local Halifax Indian boys, her best friend pulling away and her worried father reciting Hindu prayers outside her bedroom door. Shashi Bhat's newest novel, The Most Precious Substance on Earth, is a coming-of-age story about Nina, a present-day high school teacher. The Most Precious Substance on Earth is a novel by Shashi Bhat. The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat Her other books include Boundless and Lost in September. She is best known for her debut novel Annabel, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Amazon First Novel Award, among others. Kathleen Winter is a writer who was born in the U.K., and is now living in Montreal after many years in Newfoundland. Kathleen Winter has a giant pile of books she's been meaning to read This novel explores the lives of the Wordsworth family, revealing the pattern of Dorothy's rich, hidden life. But when Dixon is urged by William to take on more chores, he realizes his true responsibility is to care for increasingly frail and melancholic Dorothy. Only in her 30s, she has already lived an unconventional life as William's collaborator and has created a seemingly idyllic existence for herself. In Undersong, James Dixon has never met anyone like writer Dorothy Wordsworth, the sister of famous Romantic Era poet William Wordsworth. She has previously won the Goodreads Readers Choice Award and the Copper Cylinder Award. She's the author of novels Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Signal to Noise, Certain Dark Things and The Beautiful Ones. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Canadian writer born and raised in Mexico. Silvia Moreno-Garcia subverts genre expectations with the spooky suspense of her novel Mexican Gothic As Maite and Elvis come closer to finding out the truth behind Leonora's disappearance, they can no longer escape the danger that threatens to consume their lives.

Eccentric criminal Elvis, at the request of his boss, is also looking for Leonora. When her next-door neighbour, Leonora, a beautiful art student, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite searches for her, uncovering Leonora's secret life of student radicals and dissidents. She escapes into stories of passion and danger, ignoring the student protests and political unrest that consume the city. In Velvet Was The Night, it's the 1970s in Mexico City and Maite is a secretary who lives to read the latest issue of Secret Romance.

Velvet Was The Night is a novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. The Hunter and the Old Woman by Pamela Korgemagi She is the director of the Cabot Trail Writers Festival and is an editor of Brick, A Literary Journal. Rebecca Silver Slayter is the author of In the Land of Birdfishes, which was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Along the way, they encounter people and uncover secrets that will threaten their lives and ties between them. Expecting a child again, the two of them begin their climb into the mountains.

To stop her from leaving the safety of the hills, Eban convinces her to journey to the fabled colony of the original mountain settlers, promising her the answers she seeks. But after multiple years and multiple miscarriages, Judy wonders about the fate of the cities their parents fled where a strange sickness supposedly spread among those who stayed behind. After his mother dies, he goes to live in the northern Appalachians with Judy, the only other woman he's ever known. In The Second History, Eban has lived in hiding all his life without ever understanding why. The Second History is a novel by Rebecca Silver Slayter.

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