Books published by NeWest Press

Based on the novel by Bruce Allen Powe "The Aberhart Summer" is a dark "coming of age" story where desperation secrets and tragedy affect the lives of the people in an Edmonton neighbourhood during the Depression A mystery a comedy and a gripping look at Alberta history

This collection chronicles Phyllis Webb s struggle with the creative process and her intense need to probe beneath the surface of things

Daring to defy a world that believes old women should not be seen or heard three women steal a barrel from a travelling show and plan to go over Niagara Falls

This brand new edition features the plays that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright and gained her many accolades among them the first ever Governor General s Award for Drama for Blood Relations in 1981 Her characters are the oppressed from the spinster Lizzie Borden in the title play Blood Relations to the prisoners of One Tiger to a Hill to Leah "chosen" daughter/mistress of rum runner Mr Big in Whiskey Six Cadenza

Before her death Rubis Caillou Morin sends her son west to help her brothers settle new land Raoul carries with him a shadowy understanding of why his mother died and a red book filled with her wisdom and love The book sees Raoul through life and helps his great granddaughter find the truth about healers Rubis and the loyalty responsibility and consequence that rules her family

Crafted from archives interviews memories and bankers boxes of papers sent to the author during the years before her death "Always Someone to Kill the Doves A Life of Sheila Watson" is the portrait of a woman shaped by her times by her turbulent marriage by the clarity of genius and by the moral sense of her Catholic upbringing With the gentle touch of an old friend Flahiff provides a poignant insight into the woman the westerner and the writer Best known for the modernist novel The Double Hook and her part in creating the literary magazine "White Pelican " Watson s life was as rich and complex as her finest literary creation

In this collection Chris Craddock tackles the weighty issues of suicide drug and alcohol abuse and sex and pregnancy in the lives of teens and their families with humour insight and candid reality Throughout all three plays subversive wit and outright laugh ability keep students parents and teachers entertained while building new awareness of these significant social issues