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An enthralling novel about the corruption of power and the power of corruption from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Innocents"POTENT...A VIBRANT HISTORICAL NARRATIVE"—The New Yorker"A FLAWLESSLY CRAFTED NARRATIVE" —Wall Street Journal"MASTERPIECE" —Publisher's Weekly (Starred ... Read More about The Adversary: A Novel

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset AwardWhen a whale beaches itself on the ... Read More about Galore: A Novel

The sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey. Eclectic, unpredictable, and strange, Passengers follows Swedish poet Tomas Transtr mer on an imagined circumnavigation of Newfoundland; traces the island escapades of Lucifer f... Read More about Passengers

From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Still ch... Read More about The Innocents: A Novel

The epic tale of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction. The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a... Read More about Sweetland: A Novel

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset AwardWhen a whale beaches itself on the ... Read More about Galore: A Novel