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Richard Cumyn
Lauder Jones and Mountcastle, two Halifax families both alike in dignity, linked by love and circumstance. Douglas Lauder Jones, obscure story writer, calls it "Life and No Escape." His lovelorn…
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Winner, Ottawa-Carleton Book AwardShortlisted, Trillium AwardMan of Bone has a thriller’s taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: a heart-wrenching portrait of an ordinary Canadian jerked into third-world…
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Alan Cumyn
A father’s untimely death, a gothic grandfather who falls in love with his son’s beautiful widow, a mysterious girl, a rogue golfer, and the watchful eyes of two young people…
Everything changes for a teenaged girl with a perfectly controlled life when she falls for the hot new first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke.
Eleven-year-old Edgar and his mother move to Dawson, a town in Yukon, Canada, for a new start, but when Edgar fears his mother’s destructive behavior will force them to leave…
Winner of the OLA’s Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Award
Sylvia Tull – the girl whose very glance turns Owen’s face into a burning tomato – has moved away…
The Skye brothers – skinny, quiet, big-eared Owen and his smart older brother Andy – live in a rural village with their parents and weird Uncle Lorne, a shy bachelor…
In the follow-up to The Secret Life of Owen Skye, boyish antics give way to more reflective encounters, and Owen learns it will take all of his imagination and courage…
Eleven-year-old Edgar and his mother move to Dawson, a town in Yukon, Canada, for a new start. When Edgar fears his mother’s destructive behavior will force them to leave, he…
After surviving a terrifying ordeal at the hands of terrorists in the South Pacific island of Santa Irene, Bill Burridge returns home to Ottawa and casts himself single-mindedly into building…
Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to…
A calculus formula, a calculating boy, a young woman who is intelligent but unwise – the ingredients for a gripping story and the thematic fulcrum for this riveting collection of…
In nine memorable new stories and with tragicomic flair, acclaimed master of the short form Richard Cumyn dramatizes lives in tumult and transition. If the sign for migrant soul is…
Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Award for Short Fiction Longlisted for the Relit Awards
Famous Last Mealsis a trio of contemporary novellas about the roles we play in an age when everyone is an actor. The curtain opens on Candidates, a gentle satire starring…
Peter Cumyn
A mysterious death. An unresolved past.
John Cowan is living a peaceful life on the Big River in Labrador with his part-Inuit wife and their two children when his brother…
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A Young Man Faces His Future-and the Secrets from His Past
David, a medical student in Montreal, fills his days with studies, thoughts of his future, and regular visits to…
