Books from Emblem Editions
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The Handmaid's Tale
By Margaret AtwoodThis is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed.
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The Journey Prize Stories 21: The Best of Canada's New Writers
By VariousAmong the stories this year: Desperate to reinvent himself, a disgraced diplomat on what will be the last assignment of his career goes in search of a woman from his past in Eastern Croatia.
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Burridge Unbound
By Alan CumynBill Burridge’s voice is infectious, his story a remarkable one as the novel builds to its climactic final scenes.
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No New Land
By M.G. VassanjiIntroducing us to a cast of vividly drawn characters within this immigrant community, Vassanji is a keen observer of lives caught between one world and another.
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Alif the Unseen
By G. Willow Wilson“A jinn is not the only way to be invisible,” said Alif. “There are other ways, ... Alif realized what was missing from the room. “Where are your guards? ... The ones who bashed in my ribs at Al Basheera and starved me in prison.
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Wilderness Tips
By Margaret AtwoodBrilliantly rendered, disturbing, poignant at times, scathingly humorous at others, Wilderness Tips imbues the familiar world in which we live with indelible truths.
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The Journal of Helene Berr
By Helene BerrBerr brought a keen literary sensibility to her writing, a talent that renders the story it relates all the more rich, all the more heartbreaking.
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Cat's Eye
By Margaret AtwoodThe realm of childhood and growing up, with its secrecies, cruelties, betrayals, and terrors, has never been so brilliantly evoked. By turns disquieting, humorous, compassionate, haunting and mordant, Cat’s Eye is vintage Atwood.
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Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen
By David SaxIn this book about Jewish delicatessens, about deli’s history and characters, its greatest triumphs, spectacular failures, and ultimately the very future of its existence, David Sax goes deep into the world of the Jewish deli.
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Homesick
By Guy VanderhaegheIt is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estranged daughter to come home, with the grandson he has never seen. But this is an uneasy reunion.
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The Journey Prize Stories 23: The Best of Canada's New Writers
His award-winning writing has appeared in many journals and magazines across Canada, including Vancouver Review, Prairie Fire, Grain, and, most recently, the anthology Darwin's Bastards. He has just completed a fiction collection ...
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Settlers of the Marsh: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
By Frederick Philip GroveSome critics immediately condemned this hypnotic story of the loss of innocence on the Manitoba frontier, calling it “obscene” and “indecent.” Churches issued warnings to their congregations to avoid its scandalous contents.
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Late Nights on Air
By Elizabeth HayWith unforgettable characters, vividly evoked settings, in this award–winning novel, Hay brings to bear her skewering intelligence into the frailties of the human heart and her ability to tell a spellbinding story.
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The Underpainter
By Jane UrquhartIt is the story of Austin Fraser, an American painter now in his later years, who is haunted by memories of those whose lives most deeply touched his own, including a young Canadian soldier and china painter and the beautiful model who ...
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A Week at the Airport
By Alain de BottonIn the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever writer-in-residence.
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Cocksure: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
By Mordecai RichlerCocksure is a savagely funny satire on television, movies, and the entertainment industry. This is Mordecai Richler at his most caustic and wicked best.
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The Riverbones: Stumbling After Eden in the Jungles of Suriname
By Andrew WestollAndrew Westoll spent a year living the dream of every aspiring primatologist: following wild troops of capuchin monkeys through the remote Central Suriname Nature Reserve, the largest tract of pristine rainforest left on earth.
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Nights Below Station Street
By David Adams RichardsDavid Adams Richards’ Governor General’s Award-winning novel is a powerful tale of resignation and struggle, fierce loyalties and compassion. This book is the first in Richards’ acclaimed Miramichi trilogy.
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Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
By David Adams RichardsDisturbing, tender-hearted, and at times darkly humorous, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace reveals the strange unrecognized power in us all to shape one another’s destinies.
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For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
By David Adams RichardsVivid in its sense of place, this penetrating chronicle of lives is both dark and redemptive, devastating and comic. This novel was made into a Gemini Award-winning film of the same name.