Fiction: Novels

★ Islanders

Just off the shore of Canada’s largest city sits Toronto Island – actually a chain of islands – best known as a day-trip destination with an amusement park, beaches, yacht clubs, and an at-times-controversial airport. ... Read More »

October 7, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Grotesque

By Elliott Dunstan

Grotesque, the stunning debut novel from Ottawa Valley writer Elliott Dunstan, begins with a brief exploration into the nature of the relationship between monsters and human beings: “Sometimes it seems to me that without the ... Read More »

September 23, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Republic of Glass

By Catherine Leroux; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

Given the accelerating and overlapping crises that currently beset the world – the global ascent of the far right; galloping climate change; wars in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran that threaten to spiral out of control; ... Read More »

September 16, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Birthing Tree

By Amanda Peters

Invoking deep histories of hardship and inherited family legacies, Amanda Peters’s sophomore novel is at home in the postmodern literary tradition of the East Coast. Less gothic-adjacent than some regional stories, The Birthing Tree elicits ... Read More »

August 26, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Indigenous Peoples, Reviews

Library of Brothel

By Anakana Schofield

In 1941, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges published a story called “The Library of Babel” about an infinite and eternal library containing everything ever written, or that ever will be written, in every language ... Read More »

July 8, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Body Riddle

By Sam K MacKinnon

Lex is having a difficult winter. Since identifying as gender-fluid, they no longer feel sexual with their bisexual partner Ada. They are enduring a lot to get approval for gender-affirming chest surgery, but can’t decide ... Read More »

May 13, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

In Crow’s Field

By Judith Thompson

Ana Burns is lying in a field of mustard flowers, “stoned on Windowpane acid,” her mind drifting back and forth through a series of horrific events from her childhood. Now 17 years old, Ana is ... Read More »

April 15, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Caretaker

By Marcus Kliewer

In the summer of 2024, Vancouver-based writer Marcus Kliewer received a lot of coverage for his debut novel. Initially published in a different, abbreviated form on the r/nosleep subreddit, where it was an audience favourite, ... Read More »

March 18, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies

By Lindsay Wong

Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies, the debut adult novel from Winnipeg writer Lindsay Wong (author of the acclaimed memoir and Canada Reads finalist The Woo-Woo), opens with a moment that is at once casual ... Read More »

January 21, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Unravelling of Ou

By Hollay Ghadery

Hollay Ghadery’s debut novel opens with a frazzled, middle-aged Minoo running down a hospital hallway with a handmade sock puppet slipped over her hand. Her daughter Roya has just given birth to a baby girl, ... Read More »

January 14, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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