Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan | 
The Cat's Table
by Michael Ondaatje | 
The Sea Captain's Wife
by Beth Powning | 
Barkskins
by Annie Proulx | 
The Stone Carvers
by Jane Urquhart | 
The Piano Man's Daughter
by Timothy Findley | 
Galore
by Michael Crummey | 
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
by M. G. Vassanji | 
River Thieves
by Michael Crummey | 
The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi
by Jacqueline Park | 
Latitudes of Melt
by Joan Clark | 
Kiss of the Fur Queen
by Tomson Highway | 
The Tiger Claw
by Shauna Singh Baldwin | 
At the Full and Change of the Moon
by Dionne Brand | 
The Song of Kahunsha
by Anosh Irani | 
The Winter Vault
by Anne Michaels | 
Cabbagetown
by Hugh Garner | 
The O'Briens
by Peter Behrens | 
The Better Mother
by Jen Sookfong Lee | 
Effigy
by Alissa York |
Charlotte Taylor lived in the front row of history. In 1775, at the young age of twenty, she fled her English country house and boarded a ship to Jamaica with her lover, the family's black butler. Soon after reaching shore, Charlotte's lover died of yellow fever, leaving her alone and pregnant in Jamaica. In the sixty-six years that followed, she would find refuge with the Mi'kmaq of what is present-day New Brunswick, have three husbands, nine more children and a lifelong relationship with an aboriginal man. Using a seamless blend of fact and fiction, Charlotte Taylor's great-great-great-granddaughter, Sally Armstrong, reclaims the life of a dauntless and unusual woman and delivers living history with all the drama and sweep of a novel.