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Coventry
by Helen Humphreys
Similar to her 2002 novel, The Lost Garden, Helen Humphreys’ sixth novel is concerned with finding one’s bearings in a world made unrecognizable by war....
The Flying Troutmans
by Miriam Toews
The considerable charm of Miriam Toews’ fiction comes, in part, from her ability to create characters in situations of long-term duress with a brilliantly emulsified...
Cockroach
by Rawi Hage
There is much to admire about Cockroach, Rawi Hage’s ambitious, but ultimately uneven, follow-up to his IMPAC award-winning debut, De Niro’s Game. Like its predecessor,...
The Man Game
by Lee Henderson
Readers familiar with the grim suburban landscape of Lee Henderson’s 2002 short-story collection The Broken Record Technique may be surprised to discover that the Saskatoon-born,...
Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games
by Christopher A. Shaw
In the 19th century, travelling carnivals roamed the American West, promising spectacular sideshows, games of skill, and unforgettable thrills. It was only after the roadshow...
Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister’s Life in the Canadian Bush
by Mark Frutkin
In 1970, like a hippie version of Henry David Thoreau, Mark Frutkin rejected the Vietnam war and left his native Ohio for Canada to live...
The Prairie Bridesmaid
by Daria Salamon
Anna Lasko has had a bad decade. First she fell in love with a guitar-toting artist with a penchant for emotional abuse. Then she found...
The Order of Good Cheer
by Bill Gaston
Fiction that draws too deeply on Canadian history tends very often to be banal and derivative, so I was hardly enthused when I learned that...
Hall of Best Knowledge
by Ray Fenwick
As has often been observed, it takes no small amount of ego to write a book. And in this regard, the self-important fictional author of...
Buffalo Jump
by Howard Shrier
Contemporary Canadian crime writers are not exactly plentiful in number, and Toronto’s Howard Shrier is a welcome addition to their ranks. Shrier, a former broadcaster,...
The Withdrawal Method
by Pasha Malla
At first glance, Pasha Malla’s intriguing first short-fiction collection, The Withdrawal Method, seems like a mishmash of narrative oddities, complete with a perplexingly unappealing title....
Soul of the World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time
by Christopher Dewdney
In Acquainted with the Night, poet and non-fiction writer Christopher Dewdney explored the nighttime realm through the complementary lenses of science and art. Now, in...
Twelve Trees
by J.D. Carpenter
In Twelve Trees, author J.D. Carpenter moves away from the well-received genre work of his Campbell Young mysteries and into a more mainstream form. The...
Full-Time: A Soccer Story
by Alan Twigg
Soccer is, without dispute, the world’s most popular sport. From casual games of kickabout to the heights of international competition, those who play and watch...
The K Handshape
by Maureen Jennings
Maureen Jennings’ name should be familiar to Canadian mystery readers as well as fans of the TV adaptations of her seven novels starring Victorian-era Toronto...