Fiction

Stolen
By Annette Lapointe

Rowan Friesen has made a career of drug-dealing and small-time thievery on the outer edges of Saskatoon. Shiftless and seemingly friendless, he is, at first glance, an unlikely protagonist. But as Stolen unfolds, we learn the details of Rowan's life: his well-meaning but self-absorbed mother, his mentally-ill father, and a high-school friendship both lustful and incendiary. This intriguing backstory runs alongside a current-day murder mystery, complete with road trips, arson, drink and drugs, tech nerds and the RCMP. Rowan Freisen may not be the world's most likable character, but the complexity and honesty of his story is thrilling. Stolen's lean, tight narrative tells a tale of theft, love, and madness on the Canadian prairie, and moves along like a V-8 pickup bouncing over dirt roads.

Giller Prize nominee
Winner of Saskatchewan Book Awards:
—Best First Book
—City of Saskatoon Book Award
Globe & Mail Top 5 First Fiction 2006

Fiction
256 pp, 6 x 9
ISBN: 1-895636-73-6
$20 CAN / $16 US

Sugar Bush & Other Stories
By Jenn Farrell

Sexy, funny, sad, and sweet—Sugar Bush and Other Stories is a frank debut collection of tales about sex, love, and longing. These girls and young women navigate their lives in questionable ways, making some ill-advised choices in their quests for individuality. Whether waiting tables in a factory town, skipping school to make out in the cemetery, or wandering alone on rural sideroads, the girls of Sugar Bush share an appetite for destruction and an almost pathological need for acceptance and approval. Part breathless teenaged confessional, part wistful looks back, Sugar Bush and Other Stories is a potent cocktail of desires thwarted and fulfilled.

Fiction
168 pp, 4.75 x 6.25
ISBN: 1-895636-76-0
$18 CAN / $15 US

Suburban Pornography
by Matthew Firth

Suburban Pornography is a collection of darkly humorous stories which document contemporary Canadian suburban and urban life in a raw and naked manner. The prose is stripped—minimalist, direct, urgent, unflinching. The stories revolve around ordinary characters and problems—people stuck in bad relationships or jobs, constantly yearning for something just beyond their grasp, something authentic to knock them out of their malaise. Their frailties and obsessions are front and centre. Some are blue collar wage drones—garbage men, bus drivers, waitresses, janitors; others are desperate and lonely, just a shade past half-crazy. There are children struggling to survive in families beyond hope, and soup kitchen clients too tired and busy to contemplate the social conditions that sanction only mere existence in redemption’s agony and fleeting glory.

Fiction
160 pp, 5.5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-77-9
$18 CAN / $15 US

Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit
By Tom Osborne

Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit is a singularly Canadian novel featuring crime, culture, and sports. Written in the vein of John Kennedy Toole (Confederacy of Dunces) and JP Donleavy, Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit is set in Vancouver during an early 80s Grey Cup weekend. Tourists and sports aficionados have descended on the city in record droves. There are, however, a few folks who have other interests and plans. Three small-time career crooks are planning a heist on one of the city's exclusive hotels. Enter Harry Pazik Jr., a good ole boy from Calgary, who is inadvertently swept up in the mayhem of the crooks' boondoggle. Meanwhile, across town at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, rehearsals of La Traviata are in full swing. The 300-pound stage manager has toppled to the orchestra pit, crushing the tuba player, while Jorgen Thrapp, assistant to the Lighting Director, is busy behind the scenes with his dealings in drugs and numbers-running for a crooked printer intent on making a killing on the big game. Everyone gets more than they bargained for in this slapstick Grey Cup-meets-Goodfellas romp.

Fiction
160 pp, 5.5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-72-8
$16 CAN / $13 US

A Small Dog Barking
by Robert Strandquist

Following the success of his novel, The Dreamlife of Bridges, Robert Strandquist makes a much-awaited return to the short story form. As always, Strandquist's works explores relationships both familial and sexual, and plumbs the unspoken communications where things go haywire. This collection is more ecletic than his first collection, The Inanimate World, covering themes of nature, of building and destruction. Settings are extreme or post-apocalyptic and walk the line of magic realism. Despite the sometimes alien landscapes his characters inhabit, there is always the motif of adults navigating the riparian paths of longing, love and loss.

"It's the sort of fiction where your jaw drops at the end, the writing is that good, the imagery that wild. It's early days yet, but I have doubts whether I'll read a better book this year than Strandquist's A Small Dog Barking." —Ottawa XPress

Novel
160 pp, 5.5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-69-8
$18 CAN / $15 US

Toy Gun
by Dennis E. Bolen

Toy Gun continues the exploration of character and fate on the streets of Vancouver that began with the novel Stupid Crimes (1992) and continued in Krekshuns (1995). Written in the style of the "hard-boiled" detective thriller, Toy Gun is very much a literary treatment of contemporary life in one of the world's most densely populated urban centres. The novel focusses more closely on the stormy life of the protagonist, parole officer Barry Delta-his loves and losses, his misfortunes, foolishness and struggle; all push Delta in directions he seems never able to predict or comprehend. Toy Gun also follows several of Delta's more "challenging" cases, offering rare insight into the mental machinery of the criminal recidivist, while exploring with bleak humour the moral pressures of being another man's keeper.

Novel
336 pp, 6 x 9
ISBN: 1-895636-68-x
$26 CAN / $22 US

Foozlers
by Tom Osborne

Foozlers is a 24-hour "Odyssey" that runs a juggernaut through the high- and lowlands of Vancouver. Jerry Lowe is the reluctant driver of a getaway car for two sketchy junkies on the make. A pair of cops spend a shift wobbling on the cusp of total breakdown. The groom-to-be in an Indian arranged marriage seeks an escape of the carnal variety. Soon, they will all intersect paths with a gas station attendant and a very "special" car wash operator. And somebody's got to do something about that noisy, bad-tempered cockatoo.

Foozlers chronicles that thin line between sane and insane behaviour, and the mayhem and unpredictability fueled by the "Butterfly Effect"-strangers' paths crossing for only an instant but having explosive effects. By story's end, lives, or at least attitudes, will change. Sort of.

"an irreverent, breakneck pace, and rollercoaster prose that's a lot of fun to ride."
— Quill and Quire

"Foozlers is a madcap tour de force...Osborne earns our understanding, and even empathy, for the kind of derangement that seems gratuitously bizarre when merely 'reported' in the press."
—Vancouver Sun

Novel
198 pp, 5.5 x 7.5
ISBN: 1-895636-64-7
$18 CAN / $13 US

Going to New Orleans
by Charles Tidler

Going to New Orleans is the story of Lewis King, a jazz trumpet player who lands a gig in the Big Easy. King is a genius on cornet, but his private life is emotionally, morally, and financially bankrupt. He's a heavy drinker and compulsive sexual manipulator, prone to paranoid fits of violent rage. His girlfriend, Ms Sugarlicq, can't keep her pants on. But as equally deviant sexual predators and jealous hypocrites, they're perfect for each other…

Going to New Orleans is a fantastic and graphic first-person narrative that serves as a surreal-but-faithful guide to the music, food, history, and literature of New Orleans. A spiritual book, as well as a dirty one.

"Tidler drags his characters through a sewer backward, makes them bleed and retch and tear each other apart, and manages to make none of it depressing and some of it funny enough to bring tears. The man has a gift."
— Globe & Mail

Novel
160 pp, 5.25 x 7.5
ISBN: 1-895636-59-0
$20 CAN / $15 US

Tight Like That
by Jim Christy

When jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s were gettin’ down, when things were really cookin’ they’d say, Yeah, make it tight like that. It meant things were good, as good as they could get. It’s a good thing in fiction, too. The stories in Jim Christy’s latest collection span time and space, taking us from the depression-era Deep South to the modern-day Vancouver commute. Private eyes. Old drunks. Yuppies, hippies, and everyone in between gets the trademark Christy work-over. He roughs ‘em up until they show their mettle. His characters inhabit a world where one wrong move, no matter how small, can set in motion the direst of consequences. Luckily, they don’t let it get in the way of having a fine old time. Compelling, transforming, this collection makes you long for the days when a cup of coffee cost a dime, and dignity wasn’t for sale.

“the writing is the rock he builds the rest on, a good fresh prose that looks loose but never wastes a word ... he never makes a wrong move” —Globe & Mail

“truly extraordinary and enduring power”
—Vancouver Sun

April 2003
Stories
228 pp, 6 x 9
ISBN: 1-895636-49-3
$18 CAN / $13 US

Knucklehead
by W. Mark Giles

Winner of the W.O. Mitchell/City of Calgary Award

A debut collection, these stories are set in the corporeal world of adult endeavour: the mall, the office, the subdivision. It's these settings that W. Mark Giles exploits: locking his sights on eerily familiar characters, excavating their fears, intimacies, and the dark machinery behind their actions. He taps into our collective longing for moments of clarity and awe, recognizes our thwarted potential for wonder, and sees our secrets played out in cruelty. A strangely unified collection, unsettling and surprising, Knucklehead resides where the lines between real and imagined blur. Giles’s penetrating view and unsentimental honesty shape these stories and push the reader’s expectations of the “ordinary.” These are mature and compelling narratives that encapsulate everything great about short fiction. They freeze a moment, but upon closer examination reveal something more, a message that resonates long after that story has been read.

"polished and assured throughout...a solid debut"
—Quill & Quire

"elegant riddles dressed in workaday clothes, puzzles of image and event whose solutions cut to the heart of being human in a world of perils" —Globe & Mail

"a thoroughly enjoyable and absorbing collection"
—Broken Pencil

Stories
248 pp, 5.5 x 7.5
ISBN: 1-895636-50-7
$18 CAN / $13 US

The Dreamlife of Bridges
by Robert Strandquist

The Dreamlife of Bridges is the debut novel from Vancouver writer Robert Strandquist. Leo is a middle-aged, divorced handyman capable of mending almost anything outside of himself. The denial of his son’s death, and his inability to deal with his own pain, has rendered his life fractured and untenable. June is a single mom struggling in the bottleneck of poverty, fighting to retain custody of her son. From their precarious vantage points they behold a world of human frailty and tenuous beauty, a place where the damaged victims of a cruel epoch might be made whole again.

“fascinating reading, glimmering with flashes of brilliance and pulling us through narrative thickets that might otherwise bog us down, were the human truths not so striking”
—Globe & Mail

"Robert Strandquist took me to a Vancouver I had never met before, a heartless, fickle place ... Strandquist's prose is stark and noble, and elucidates his characters' frailties like a bare light bulb."
—The Georgia Straight

"The Dreamlife of Bridges is a hard-edged, impressionistic odyssey through a Vancouver that doesn't appear on tourist flyers."
— Robert Wiersema, Quill & Quire

"With humour and perception, Strandquist has taken a locally tired genre and breathed life into it, by refusing to be drawn into cliché."
—Michael Barnholden, The Rain Review of Books

Novel
200 pp, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 1-895636-46-9
$18 CAN / $13 US

The Fed Anthology: Brand New Fiction & Poetry from the Federation of BC Writers
edited by Susan Musgrave

With a thousand members throughout the province, the Federation of BC Writers is one of the most active and vigorous writers’ organizations in the country. The Fed Anthology, edited by Susan Musgrave on the occasion of the group’s 25th anniversary, is a colourful bazaar of previously unpublished fiction and poetry by nearly 50 of those members. Like the Fed itself, the book includes both authors whose names are instantly familiar to all readers of CanLit and others who are emerging only now to take their place as the next generation. The country has learned to turn to British Columbia when taking the pulse of Canadian writing. The Fed Anthology is a lively part of the process. The anthology features work by Tom Wayman, Sandy Shreve, Len Dufour, Steven Mills, Peggy Herring, Loranne Brown, Linda Rogers, Jim Christy, Kate Braid, Lorna Crozier, Caroline Woodward, Ursula Vaira, Patrick Lane, Luanne Armstrong and many others.

Anthology
200 pp, 5.25 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-48-5
$18 CAN / $13 US

The Beautiful Dead End
by Clint Hutzulak

Finalist, Books in Canada/ Amazon.ca First Novel Award

The Beautiful Dead End is a visceral crime thriller that takes the reader on a existential journey to the “other side” and almost back again. In a bizarre, shadowy interzone populated by disturbing characters, our anti-hero confronts the dark secrets of his past, and comes face to face with the consequences of having lived an unexamined life.

"Every detail of setting and behaviour and inner response contributes to the spare, mesmerizing beauty of Hutzulak's prose" —Globe & Mail

"if the intelligent writing is shades of things to come, Hutzulak will be one to watch" —Books in Canada

"The Beautiful Dead End is brilliant—the wintry realism of Russell Banks, the poisonous hell of Sartre's No Exit, all tangled up in barbed wire noir."
—Mark Jarman, author of 19 Knives

For more information check out: www.clinthutzulak.com

Novel
202pp, 5 x 7 1/4
ISBN: 1895636-39-6
$14.95 CAN / $10.95 US

Socket
Winner 2001 3-Day
Novel-Writing Contest
By David Zimmerman

Socket tells the gripping tale of Ronald Percy, an international aid worker who travels to Ethiopia to assist with an irrigation project for the African Development Organization. Upon arrival, he is unable to locate his agents or company representatives, and soon finds himself enmeshed in a web of bureaucracy and state corruption. Socket was selected as the Grand Winner from over 400 entries in the 2001 International 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest.

Novel
5 x 7 112 pp Paperback
ISBN:1-895636-42-6 Novel
$11.95 CAN / $8.95 US

The Inanimate World
by Robert Strandquist

The Inanimate World is an affecting suite of stories, with a novella-length piece at its core. The stories within The Inanimate World traverse both rural and urban landscapes, exploring the terrain of the personal as much as the geographic. They span the time period of 1980 to the present, providing relevant insights into the private lives of people living through rapid social transformation and an unstable changing econonmy.

Sincere, germane, and tender tales of longing—for love, understanding, acceptance, and peace.

"prose studded with perceptive-descriptive nuggets"
— Globe & Mail

"a deliriously good collection. The writing is so specific and searing that the stories can be read over and over, each time offering up something new, as all the best fiction does. ... Buy this book."
—Monday Magazine

Stories
180pp, 5 1/2x 8 1/2
ISBN: 1895636-33-7
$16.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Small Apartments
Winner of the 2000
3-Day Novel-Writing Contest
by Chris Millis

A capricious comedy of errors, Small Apartments resonates with tremulous energy and memorable characters. Franklin Franklin is a fully realized and sympathetic protagonist in the vein of Ignatius Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces), a simple man who yearns for "a land of pastoral serenity" devoid of the irritants of contemporary urban life. An off-beat tale, Small Apartments is accented along the way by murder, strange fingernail collections, and the occasional blast from a treasured alphorn.

"brisk and compact...with surprising thematic breadth" —Globe & Mail

"this is a classic crime novel ... good snappy stuff with the necessary touch of deus ex machina toward the end" —Geist Magazine

Novel
124 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-35-3
$12.95 CAN / $9.95 US

Touched
by Jodi Lundgren

Touched renders the emotional and intellectual implosion experienced by Jade King, a young university student. This debut novel challenges the social stigma attached to such altered states and traces the effects of physical violation and psychic trauma. Lundgren encourages a critical examination of current psychiatric labels and treatments through a narrative that interweaves family history, legal texts, medical documents—and brave, phantasmagoric writing.

"Surprising and formally imaginative, Touched is a poignant, often witty, 'detective novel' of the soul. In short, a remarkable first novel."
—Betsy Warland, author of The Bat Had Blue Eyes and Proper Definitions

"powerfully written, painful and frightening novel"
—"Letters In Canada" (University of Toronto Quarterly)

Novel
166 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-25-6
$12.95 CAN / $10.95 US

Skin
Winner of the 1999
3-Day Novel-Writing Contest
By Bonnie Bowman

Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, Skin is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love story, Bowman probes the surface to reveal deeper, more lingering impulses connected to desire, understanding, and love. It is only on very extraordinary occasions when beauty and the beast get together, but they do here. Skin is a cutting and startling debut novel.

Winner: Inaugural ReLit Award, 2001

"Bowman's prose has a light, tripping quality and a tone of gleeful gruesomeness" — Georgia Straight

"A wickedly funny parody of male sexual vanity and insecurity" — Vancouver Sun

"[Skin] surges from the starting gate ... striking images and thematic vigour combine to make it an uncommon and refreshing literary debut"
— Globe & Mail

Novel
144 pages, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-32-9
$12.95 CAN / $9.95 US

Ruby Ruby
By Bradley Harris

Winner of the 1998
3-Day Novel-Writing Contest

Meet Jack Minyard, a nice, liberal, milk-drinking, hockey-playing white-bread Canuck from Saskatoon who’s stuck down in Memphis, Tennessee workin’ for a security company and moonlighting as a private dick.

Ruby Ruby is a soft-boiled murder mystery that follows the trail of our expatriate Canuck as he tries to sleuth out the answers to a puzzling series of pointless and apparently motiveless murders: Who’d want to kill a sixtyish night watchman guarding an abandoned pie factory?

Jack Minyard might have some answers, but then again a hard-drinkin’ night shift bus driver named Lomas sees a lot of things that he doesn’t always talk about . . . at least not until he’s slurrin’ drunk.

Novel
108 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: ISBN: 1-895636-23-X
$12.95 CAN / $10.95 US

White Lung
By Grant Buday

Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize

A blackly comic new novel from Vancouver author Grant Buday, based on his eight glorious years working in a mass production bakery. Dickensian in magnitude, White Lung is a sardonic portrait of B.C.'s racial conflicts and chaotic economy.

"A rollicking black comedy of errors with a host of unforgettable characters." — Quill & Quire (starred review)

"Rarely has there been a novel as astute about life on the punch clock." — Globe & Mail

Novel
294 pp. 5 x 8
ISBN: ISBN: 1-895636-20-5
$15.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Airborne Photo
By Clint Burnham

Drinkin' rye and water with Grandma. Guns in False Creek. Frat boy homies from the North Delta ghetto. Samuel L. Jackson. Phantom Lord & Metallica. A kid who's got the hots for his mom...
   Hunh?
   That's right. It's all here in this new collection of immediate, lean and visceral short fiction from Clint Burnham.

"An unsettling, diamond-sharp book of tiny stories that should be couriered to every doe-eyed, poverty-fetishizing liberal in the country." — This Magazine

Stories
178 pp, 4 1/4 x 6 3/4
ISBN: 1-895636-22-1
$13.95 CAN / $10.95 US

Dry Shave (a comic strip)
By Rod Filbrandt

If you like your comic strip characters cute and cuddly, you'll hate Dry Shave. Dry Shave cracks open a hardboiled world of laconic lowlifes, pugnacious palookas, shiftless grifters and demented dames—with a tip of the pork-pie hat to Robert Mitchum. As featured in Vancouver's The Georgia Straight and Toronto's eye weekly magazine, Rod Filbrandt's wacky cast of noir characters is brought together in his first collected edition.

Cartoon
119 pp, 5 1/2 x 6 1/2
ISBN: 1-895636-21-3
$12.95 CAN / $10.95 US

Gas Tank & Other Stories
By Dennis E. Bolen

From the author of Stupid Crimes, Krekshuns and Stand in Hell come more fictional wanderings. Gas Tank & Other Stories casts disparate characters into tumultuous scenes of moral terror, testing their courage, energy, and capacity to endure.

"These stories grab you by the scruff of the neck and haul you roughly inside . . . authentic, powerful and engaging." —Vancouver Sun

"Bolen challenges the contemporary illusion of classlessness which assures everyone they will get ahead if they just think right and work hard."
—Globe & Mail

Stories
188 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-15-9
$14.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Salvage King, Ya!
By Mark Anthony Jarman

Debut novel from the author of 19 Knives and New Orleans is Sinking. Salvage King, Ya! is a gritty, down-to-earth story of a hockey player’s last few years in the minors. Drinkwater, an almost-got-to-the-NHL tough-mouthed romantic is skidding through the tail-end of his 30s on a high-octane journey of self-actualization. Chip-toothed and soaring he struggles to come to terms with the conflicting aspirations of his youth and the reality of inheriting the family junkyard. Roving. Luminous. Rowdy. Funny.

"A wonderfully fierce and funny book . . . imagine Hunter S. Thompson on hockey skates."
— Vancouver Sun

"Jarman's prose is relentlessly, dizzyingly energetic."
— Globe & Mail

Novel
286 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-13-2
$16.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Monday Night Man
Grant Buday

Monday Night Man is a back alley view of East Vancouver netherworlds. Horst Nunn, Ray Bunce, and Boyle Rupp are a trio of middle-aged, underemployed, intelligent "plungers" striving for redemption through humour and longshots at the track.

By the same author: White Lung

"These stories . . . combine the flavours of Dickens and Charles Bukowski, with a good hit of The Three Stooges thrown in." —Bruce Serafin

"Buday is a careful stylist; his language is clean and carefully plotted, his dialogue quick and convincing."
—Kevin Connolly, Paragraph

Stories
172 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-07-8
$12.95 CAN / $10.95 US

The Underwood
By P.G. Tarr

Winner of the 20th annual 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest.

The Underwood is a poignant tale of a parentless twenty-one-year-old pianist who lands the job of lounge entertainer in a once glorious and elegant establishment. Enter the young Foster Lutz, and the hotel—including the lives of its inhabitants—is set for a spell of splendour and rejuvenation.

A loss-of-innocence novel set in an atmosphere pervaded with nostalgia and a yearning for a bygone era. Holden Caulfield meets Barton Fink.

"Tarr’s prose is measured, controlled and has the wry, pulpy feel of Raymond Chandler . . . fluently readable." —Globe & Mail

"An immediate, compelling read." —Eye Weekly

Novel
132 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-17-5
$11.95 CAN / $8.50 US

Tacones (High Heels)
By Todd Klinck

Winner of the 19th annual
3-Day Novel-Writing Contest.

Tacones is a hangout for a subculture of outlaws and rejects—crackhead murderers, transvestite prostitutes, biastogerontophiles, hustler boys, and addicts—all painfully beyond denial, searching for connection, solace, humour, thrills, sex, and the perfect high. A rollicking and caustic romp through the violent and ambivalent world of the Toronto after-hours scene. Descend, if you dare...

"Compulsively readable" —Evelyn Lau

"Very short, very cheap, and . . . very, very sexy." 
—Toronto Star

Novel
128 pp, 5 x 6
ISBN: 1-895636-14-0
$11.95 CAN / $9.95 US

Body Speaking Words
By Loree Harrell

Winner of the 1995 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest

Body Speaking Words is a novel about—what else—writing a novel in three days, at the same time offering insights into family, friendship, growing up female, and delighting in strange foods; a poignant, funny and sexy account of one woman's attempt to understand what drives us to document the essential stories of our lives.

". . . will strongly appeal to struggling authors."
—Paul Matwychuk, Quill & Quire

Novel
97 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-09-4
$10.95 CAN / $9.95 US

Sub-Rosa & Other Fiction
By Catherine Bennett

A wonderful hybrid of postmodern genre-bending and conventional narrative—an exploration of a state of mind rather than a description of events. This work deals with subjects as varied as memory; rewriting notions of history; erotic latitude; the blurred border between sleep, dream and reality; isolation; loss; pleasure and change.

". . . nails raw passion to the page." —Zsuzsi Gartner, The Georgia Straight

Short Fiction
113 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-11-6
$12.95 CAN / $11.95 US

A Circle of Birds
By Hayden Trenholm

Winner of the 15th annual 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest

A Circle of Birds is an impressionistic, finely-wrought tale of lost memory, tangled history, despair and discovery. It is a journey through much Canadian and world history; a mind-melting descent into mental illness, a sordid yarn of death and twisted love.

"An unsettling meditation on the passage of time and the nature of identity." —Books in Canada

"Modernist humanity come full circle."
—Vancouver Sun

Novel
99 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-03-5
$9.95 CAN / $7.00 US

Stupid Crimes
Dennis E. Bolen

Stupid Crimes grows like a map of East Vancouver, and stretches from Little Italy to Chinatown. Using Barry Delta, parole officer, as an entreé to this world of the shady, the blue collar, and the deeply bruised, Dennis E. Bolen has increased the range of consciousness and language at play.

"A contemporary, experimental and imaginative treatment of very old themes." —The Globe & Mail

1st Edition
Novel
178 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-01-9
$10.95 CAN / $8.00 US

Stolen Voices/Vacant Rooms
By Steve Lundin & Mitch Parry

Joint winners of the 1993 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest

This feat represents the first and only shared prize of publication for the 3-Day Novel Contest. One, a nightmarish vision of a land in decline, the other, a finely crafted tale of family history and the effects of the past on the present, rich in mood and evocative in its language.

Stolen Voices: "Alcohol, drugs, hormones conjured by passion-bubbled blood, all pave a hallucinogenic path . . . through thunderstorms within the skull."
—Prairie Fire

Vacant Rooms: "Graceful, almost poetic reminiscence." —Prairie Fire

Novels (Double Header)
142 pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 1-895636-06-X
$11.95 CAN / $9.95 US

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