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  Written on the Dark

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Kay’s latest fantastical/historical novel about power and the human need for art centres on the well-known tavern poet Thierry Villar, who, thanks to his quick wit, underworld connections, and background in law, is drawn into the rivalries and conflicts of the ambitious royals. Along the dangerous way, he meets his poetic equal, Marina di Seressa, the gender-fluid Gauvard Colle who is acquainted with the half-world, and many other fascinating characters.

  (Penguin Canada, $40.00 Hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN: 978-10-37800-50-4)  

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  Revolution Songs

  Carissa Halton

  Set in a 1930s Rocky Mountain mining town, this debut historical novel was inspired by the little-known story of a Communist union, the rise of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan, and the women who fought on both sides, women such as young Annie Jalmer, who becomes an unwilling double agent for opposing Communists and Fascist forces until a violent strike forces her to take a stand, and Emmeline Webb, the wife of the chief of the police.

  (NeWest Press, $24.95 Paperback, 368 pages, ISBN: 978-17-74391-24-2)  

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