Quattro Books: 75 books

Jack Layton: Art in Action is a collection of anecdotes about Jack Layton’s involvement in Canadian arts and culture, and how his spirit continues to influence activism in Canada today. His interest in the Canadian cultural landscape was an underlying presence throughout his career. Art in Action...

In Of All the Ways To Die, by Brenda Niskala, Urma holds a pot luck for the people she has lost from her life. The invitation attracts the attention of loved ones, acquaintances and a few famous faces, including a bog mummy, St. Anthony, a Cree grandmother, and an eccentric prairie shipbuilder. Is it...

Harbour View is the story of six people whose lives intersect in a nursing home overlooking Halifax Harbour. Memories draw the residents, staff, and family members from rich and diverse pasts to a present filled with grace and poignancy. Threaded with music and connected by themes of dislocation, family...

A Pleasant Vertigo follows Gerard Gordon, once a famous Manhattan artist who is desperately trying to stage a comeback. While battling the woes of a failed career, no income and a pregnant partner, Gerard finally gets a break, yet his need to have his ego stroked proves once more to be his downfall....

The Cousin is an extraordinary journey that evolves from going somewhere, in this case Sicily, to ending up somewhere else, in this case, inside the body of a transvestite named Simone. The Cousin deals as much with memory, violence and sexuality as it does with family, self and culture.