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Brought to you by Penguin. From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you...

THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magic, love and identity. In the late nineteenth century...

The heartbreaking new novel from the internationally best-selling author of Fall on Your Knees and The Way The Crow Flies. 'Ann-Marie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like nobody else. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day.' (Emma Donoghue, author of Room) Mary Rose McKinnon has two children with her partner, Hilary, and a fractured relationship with her mother, Dolly; she also has issues with anger management and lives in fear of hurting the children.

In The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to the early 1960’s, a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race and overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War—a world filtered through the imagination of Madeleine McCarthy, a spirited nine-year-old. Unaware...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A marvelous and compulsively readable collection of stories from the life of Salah Bachir — philanthropist, art collector, movie industry insider — who, through his sheer joy of life, art, giving back, and human interaction, has endeared him to some of the most...