Fiction: Novels

The Body Riddle

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

★ The Tortoise’s Tale

By Kendra Coulter

In a perpetually online, frenzied, and FOMO-driven world that celebrates hustle culture, demands efficiency, and, in ways, eschews true connection, “slowing down” is often held up as a self-care goal, but one that is rarely ... Read More »

November 19, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Other Evolutions

By Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia’s fiction resists labels. In her work, human ordeals and the fantastic can intersect to poignant effect. Other Evolutions, the O. Henry Award–winner’s first novel, fuses a coming-of-age story with a family tale and ... Read More »

November 12, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Hemo Sapiens

By Emily A. Weedon

Early in Emily A. Weedon’s Hemo Sapiens, we are introduced to Luke Stockton, a no-nonsense homicide detective trying and failing to balance the impending birth of his first child with an increasingly complicated murder investigation. ... Read More »

September 24, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Still

By Joanna Cockerline

Barely out of her teens, Kayla already has some dark and painful secrets – and she’s far from the only one. In Still, a moving and insightful debut novel about sex work and street life ... Read More »

September 17, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Three Parties

By Ziyad Saadi

Set on a “splendid” June day in 1923, the apparent placidity of Mrs. Dalloway – in which a well-heeled Londoner runs errands in preparation for a dinner party – confounds expectations, thanks to Virginia Woolf’s ... Read More »

September 3, 2025 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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