Cocksure
by Mordecai Richler | 
The Cure For Death By Lightning
by Gail Anderson-Dargatz | 
The Stone Angel
by Margaret Laurence | 
The Republic of Love
by Carol Shields | 
The Piano Man's Daughter
by Timothy Findley | 
Bear
by Marian Engel | 
The Underpainter
by Jane Urquhart | 
The Diviners
by Margaret Laurence | 
The Englishman's Boy
by Guy Vanderhaeghe | 
Medicine River
by Thomas King | 
The Favourite Game
by Leonard Cohen | 
Small Ceremonies
by Carol Shields | 
Joshua Then and Now
by Mordecai Richler | 
A Good House
by Bonnie Burnard | 
The Romantic
by Barbara Gowdy | 
Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan | 
The Cat's Table
by Michael Ondaatje | 
The Virgin Cure
by Ami McKay | 
The Sea Captain's Wife
by Beth Powning | 
Barkskins
by Annie Proulx |
Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The Gursky family with its colourful bootlegging history, its bizarre connections with the North and the Inuit, and its wildly eccentric relations, both fascinates and infuriates him. His quest to unravel their story leads to the enigmatic Ephraim Gursky: document forger in Victorian England, sole survivor of the ill-fated Franklin expedition and charasmatic religious leader of the Arctic. Of Ephraim's three grandsons, Bernard has fought, wheeled and cheated his way to the head of a liquor empire. His brother Morrie has reluctantly followed along. But how does Ephraim's protege, Solomon, fit in? Elusive, mysterious and powerful, Solomon Gursky hovers in the background, always out of Moses' grasp, but present-like an omen.