Steven Heighton: 4 books

Since selections first appeared in the New Quarterly and the National Post as part of "The Afterword," Steven Heightons memos and dispatches to himself - a writers pointed, cutting take on his own work and the work of writing - have been tweeted and retweeted, discussed and tacked to bulletin...

From internationally acclaimed and Governor General’s Award-winning author Steven Heighton comes a passionate novel of buried secrets, the repercussions of war and finding love among the ruins Elias Trifannis is desperate to belong somewhere. To make his dying ex-cop father happy, he joins...

**“A magnificent novel” based on the 1872 Polaris expedition that left crewmembers marooned on an ice floe off the coast of Greenland (The New York Times Book Review). It is 1871. Nineteen men, women, and children, hailing from the United States, Germany, Denmark, England, and Sweden,...

Dokter Lewis Book en zijn dochter Sophie reizen naar Nepal om mee te doen aan een klimexpeditie. Op een avond ziet Sophie een groep Tibetanen vluchten voor Chinese soldaten. Als de eerste schoten worden gelost, haast haar vader zich naar het strijdgewoel, tegen de dringende adviezen van expeditieleider Lawson in. Amaris, een Chinees-Canadese filmmaakster, rent hem achterna.