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River Queen: The Amazing Story of Tugboat Titan Lucille Johnstone
$65.00 AUD
Rivtow was just a three-boat log-towing operation when Lucille Johnstone came aboard as an unskilled girl Friday in the late 1940s. By the 1980s, Rivtow had taken over its biggest...
A History of Burning
An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko- one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER...
No Higher Purpose: The Official Operational History of the Royal
$30.00 AUD
Throughout the Second World War, Canada played a vital role in contributing manpower and escorting supply convoys to the European theater of war. The Royal Canadian Navy was called upon...
Sink All the Shipping There: Canada's Lost Wartime Merchant Ships and
$80.00 AUD
The author's previous book, The Canadian Naval Chronicle, contains a chapter which gives brief details of Canadian merchant ship sinkings. While Fraser McKee and co-author Robert Darlington were researching those...
Great White Fleet: Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships
$55.00 AUD
For decades Canada Steamship Lines proclaimed itself as the world's largest transportation company operating on inland waters. Its passenger and freight vessels could be found on the Great Lakes as...
Beaconsfield: Chronic Epoch
The first major book on Beaconsfield's history, this exciting publication is both the record of an artists' organisation, and that of an expansive curatorial journey within the art world taken...
Take Your Breath Away
A missing woman. A husband suspected. The truth will ... Take Your Breath Away Linwood Barclay is... 'A suspense master' Stephen King 'In a class of his own' T.M. Logan...
This Summer Will Be Different
$24.99 AUD
From the million-copy bestselling author, Carley Fortune returns with her best book yet. Felix and Lucy can't be together, but as every summer forces them together, they can't resist temptation....
The Rush: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
'My top read of the year' - LISA HALL 'Shimmers with danger and heart' - LESLEY KARA 'Brilliant writing and essential reading' - JANICE HALLETT Gold fever has taken him....
Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats
Ride along with these brawny boats as they catch the swells and waves of the wild West Coast, navigate deadly tidal rapids and squeeze through a winding maze of boats...
Blue Stars: Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem: A Graphic Novel
Two everyday superheroes set out to save the world-starting with their school-in an exciting new middle-grade graphic series from two award-winning authors and a debut illustrator. When cousins Riley Halfmoon...
The Island of Forgetting
'Inventive, excellent ... a pure pleasure to read' THE TIMES In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados....
The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission
December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the...
Montreal: the Unknown City
"Montreal: The Unknown City" is the newest addition to Arsenal's bestselling series of urban city guides. As one of North America's most popular travel destinations, Montreal is world renowned for...
Northern Lights: A practical travel guide
Written by Arctic expert Polly Evans, this new, thoroughly updated fourth edition of Bradt's Northern Lights: a Practical Travel Guide does what it says on the tin, providing practical guidance...
Alexander Graham Bell: The Spirit of Innovation
In 1876, at only 29 years old, Alexander Graham Bell completed the invention that would turn him into a household name: the telephone. What began as a tool for his...
Iron Hope: Lessons Learned from Conquering the Impossible
The ultimate guide to mental toughness by James 'Iron Cowboy' Lawrence-the greatest endurance athlete in human history. Lawrence's accomplishments are nearly impossible to comprehend. In 2015, he set a Guinness...
The Making of an Engineer: An Illustrated History of Engineering
The cover illustration is the Palace of Fine Arts at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. As part of the International Congress on Engineering, 70 men convened...
Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak: One Womans Journey Through the
$12.00 AUD
During the summers of 1991 through 1994 Victoria Jason and two companions--Fred Reffler and Don Starkell--set out to kayak from Churchill, Manitoba to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea. When she...
Faraway Nearby: Photographs From The New York Times
On the occasion of Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017, The Faraway Nearby presents a century of Canadian history through photographs. The book will take readers on a visual journey through...
Nordique
"True Nordic" presents a comprehensive look at more than nine decades of Nordic and Scandinavian aesthetic influence in Canadian craft, design and industrial production. The book offers a broad historical...
The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Montreal
Taking their name from the downtown street in Montreal where members shared a studio in the early 1920s, The Beaver Hall Group were early adopters of new modernistic approaches to...
From the Wheelhouse: Tugboaters Tell Their Own Stories
$15.00 AUD
Towboats have been a part of British Columbia's history since 1836, when the Hudson's Bay Company's ungainly side-wheeler SS Beaver made the first powered tow up the coast. Over the...
Here the Reluctant Trinity of Canada, Mexico and the United States
$20.00 AUD
A completely original, passionately rendered portrait of the nations of North America and their complicated relationships with one another, by a New York Times journalist who has lived in all...
Pro-choice vs. Pro-life: Abortion and the Courts in Canada
This history aims to provide an impartial view of one of the most controversial issues as it tells how the abortion debate changed the legal and political systems of Canada....
The Great Lakes Water Wars
For over a century the Great Lakes have been the target of controversial diversion schemes to sell, send, or ship water to thirsty communities, sometimes far from the source. In...
A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada
$15.00 AUD
In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Metis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance...
Canadian Animals ABC
An upbeat introduction to the alphabet and Canadian wildlife from A to Z. This bestselling introduction to the alphabet and Canadian wildlife from A to Z is now available in...
Blue Stars: Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem: A Graphic Novel
Two everyday superheroes set out to save the world-starting with their school-in an exciting new middle-grade graphic series from two award-winning authors and a debut illustrator. When cousins Riley Halfmoon...
Reflections of a Traveling Teacher: A Year on a Teacher Exchange
Stepping out into a different world Maria and Tony Lacey left Australia's hot summer behind them and landed in Canada in the depths of a freezing winter so that Maria...
A Five-Letter Word for Love: A Novel
A heartwarming and humorous romance in which an unlikely couple fall in love over Wordle. Twenty-seven-year-old Emily doesn't have a lot going well in her life right now. She dreams...
The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission Impossible
December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the...
Life Before Man
From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death. Life Before...
Stories I Might Regret Telling You
'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the...
Dear Life
$24.99 AUD
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**...
Dance of the Happy Shades
$24.99 AUD
2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers Discover Alice Munro's first mesmerising and...
Crosshairs
The author of the acclaimed novel Scarborough weaves an unforgettable and timely dystopian tale about a near-future, where a queer Black performer and his allies join forces to rise up...
The Island of Seven Cities: The Discovery of a Lost Chinese Settlement
"The Island of Seven Cities" unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus. In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to...
Dead Wind
$12.00 AUD
Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if she's to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands community she now...
A Five-Letter Word for Love: A Novel
A heartwarming and humorous romance in which an unlikely couple fall in love over Wordle.Twenty-seven-year-old Emily doesn't have a lot going well in her life right now. She dreams of...
Entry Island: An edge-of-your-seat thriller you won't forget
THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one...
Under Shifting Stars
This heartfelt novel for fans of Jandy Nelson and Adam Silvera follows twins Audrey and Clare as they grapple with their brother's death and their changing relationships-with each other and...
Zadie Xa: House Gods, Animals Guides and Five Ways 2 Forgiveness
Author: Tarini MalikFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 280mm, 680g, 120 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2023This publication - the artist's first dedicated catalogue - celebrates Zadie Xa's current Whitechapel Gallery exhibition...
Zadie Xa: House Gods, Animals Guides and Five Ways 2 Forgiveness
Author: Tarini MalikFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 280mm, 680g, 120 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2023This publication - the artist's first dedicated catalogue - celebrates Zadie Xa's current Whitechapel Gallery exhibition...
Twenty-Seven Minutes: An astonishing crime thriller debut with a shocking twist
It takes one moment to call for help. So why did he wait? 'The rare gift that delivers it all' ASHLEY AUDRAIN'Truly gripping and deeply satisfying' CHRIS WHITAKER'I was hooked'...