Best Selling Books by Allan Stratton

David Pearce, Associate Professor of English, is giving a tutorial to a pretty co-ed who aspires to the lofty heights of poetical inspiration and romance. David is fending her off when the department chairman''s wife barges in with plans to make her husband jealous by telling him she is having a torrid affair with David. David is shocked and worried about his tenure review. He is even more shocked when the chairman arrives, boiling, and finds his wife in one room and the love-smitten co-ed in another.

Read together, A Flush of Tories and Rexy! form comic bookends, the first viewing our current dilemmas in the context of Conservative leadership in the last century; the second, in the context of more recent Liberal leadership. A Flush of Tories was widely produced in Canada and adapted for a drama special on CBC; Rexy! won the Chalmers Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award, and the Canadian Authors'' Association Award.

Like any girl, sixteen-year-old Chanda Kabelo has secrets. She is determined to be loyal to her rebellious friend Esther, she worries about passing her exams, and she wishes she didn''t have to spend so much time listening to her Mama chat with their nosy neighbour Mrs Tafa. But one secret threatens to silence everything. All around her people are dying, and everyone is afraid to say why. But Chanda knows: it''s because of AIDS. Chanda''s Secrets is the tense and deeply moving story of one girl''s struggle to rescue the people she loves from a tragedy that is destroying her world.

"Comment peut-on ne pas vouloir sortir avec Jason ? il est ultra cool. [...] Jason, pour moi, c''est un rêve qui se réalise." Hélas pour Leslie, son rêve va vite tourner au cauchemar... Jason, le nouveau qui attire tous les regards, n''est pas le garçon bien qu''il paraît être. Lentement, il tisse sa toile autour d''elle. Pour qu''elle ne puisse plus s''échapper. Pour qu''elle lui appartienne. Corps et âme.

Shortlisted for the 2001 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. In a desperate attempt to save his foundering charity — and to exorcise a few personal demons — Canadian philanthropist Junior Beamish creates a lottery in which the winner gets to publicly torch an original van Gogh. A grand comedy about art, commerce and untidy family relationships, The Phoenix Lottery sweeps from Mafia hits in post-war Italy to post-millennial Vatican intrigue by way of revolutionary Cuba, Bay Street backstabs, a seance on Baffin Island, and a Port Elgin S&M bed and breakfast.