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The Vinyl Café Unplugged is the third book in Stuart McLean's Vinyl Café series, and like the one before it, Home from the Vinyl Café, it won the Stephen Leacock Medal for...
Arthur Black is back in this lively new collection of his wit and wisdom. Once again, Black attacks our perceptions of daily living and surrenders to bureaucratic eventual...
Welcome to the world of the Vinyl Cafe. Meet Dave, the proud owner of the world's smallest record store. Meet his pal, Kenny Wong, who runs Wong's Scottish Meat Pies. Meet...
Словом "игра" определяется и жанр романа Рихлера, и его творческий метод. Рихлер тяготеет к трагифарсовому письму, роман написан в лучших традициях англо-американской лите...
This new collection includes hilarious goings-on in the septic field, the saga of a new old-style cedar fence, the rigors of trying to stack a cord of wood correctly, and ...
This hilarious view of the 90s pokes fun at fat cats, bureaucrats, sign laws, snowstorms, second-hand steak fumes, quiet Canadians, noisy Americans, and other fax of Canad...
A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors--in their fifties, and fraternal twins--own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like them, the "gentle and b...
In a career spanning more than four decades, Roch Carrier has never failed to make his readers laugh. Prayers of a Very Wise Child, like so much of Carrier's fiction, has ...
Raincoast Chronicles, Spilsbury's Coast, The Accidental Airline, A Hard Man to Beat, The Men There Were Then. . . and now another one to top off the list. Writing in the R...
Set in the forties and fifties, these stories take us back to a simpler, gentler world, the one we all like to think we grew up in. The Kid at the centre of the stories is...
Selected as the 2008 CBC Canada Reads Winner!
"A dazzling display of fictional footwork… The author has not written just another hockey novel; he has turned hockey in a...
In The Fencepost Chronicles, Kinsella recounts 13 more wonderful stories featuring the delightfully crazy Frank Fencepost and his friend Silas Ermineskin -- as they cause ...
Gophers Don't Pay Taxes is an episodic novel about the humorous adventures of a young lawyer, George Ingraham, as he seeks to establish himself in the small Alberta town o...