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Anne Wiazemsky
My Berlin Child
In elegant prose, Wiazemsky succeeds in portraying how love and hope can surface amidst the ravages of war and the ruins of an entire civilization. -
Ian Williams
Disorientation
Bestselling Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings a fresh point of view and new insights to the urgent conversation on race and racism in these illuminating essays born from his own experience as a Black man in the world. -
Ian Williams
Reproduction
Winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize and CBC's Best Novel of the Year, Reproduction is an energetically told, funny, and moving book about how strangers become family. -
Rohan Wilson
To Name Those Lost
A powerful page-turner about a father and son in search of each other in a lawless age and a violent land, To Name Those Lost is a tale of guilt, vengeance, fatherhood, and redemption that recalls the novels of Cormac McCarthy and those of Booker-Prize winning author Richard Flanagan. -
Tamsen Wolff
Juno's Swans
In 1988, before her senior year of high school, Nina and her best friend spend the summer alone on Cape Cod. Nina has grown up with her ailing grandmother—and she yearns for the chance of a deeper connection. When she enrolls in an acting course, she soon finds romance with Sarah, one of the... -
Chris Womersley
City of Crows
"A gothic masterpiece."— Better Read Than Dead Set in seventeenth-century France—a country in the thrall of dark magic, its social fabric weakened by years of plague—Chris Womersley's City of Crows is a richly imagined and engrossing tour de force. Inspired by real-life events,... -
Benjamin Wood
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and the European Union Prize for Literature 2019. “His mistakes are my inheritance. The rotten blood he gave me is the blood I will pass on.” For twenty years, Daniel Hardesty has lived with the emotional scars of a childhood trauma... -
Charlotte Wood
The Natural Way of Things
The Natural Way of Things is at once lucid and illusory, a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind's own vast contradictions—the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body. This gripping, provocative, and timely... -
Emily Woof
The Lightning Tree
United Kingdom circa the 1980s——Ursula and Jerry find themselves surrounded by hip hairdos and dominating parents. When both escape to separate places, they keep in touch through letters that are deep, political, and full of irony——but Jerry harbors a secret uncertainty. -
Aura Xilonen
The Gringo Champion
This is a migrants' story of deracination, loneliness, fear, and finally, love told in a sparkling, innovative prose. It's Million Dollar Baby meets The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and a story of migration and hope that is as topical as it is timeless.