★ A Circle on the Surface

Eleven years after the end of the Second World War, Enman Greene waits patiently for his 12-year-old daughter’s music lesson to end. It’s her birthday, and he has decided at lunch to finally tell her ... Read More »

August 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Women Talking

By Miriam Toews

From 2005 to 2009, a group of men from the Manitoba Colony of Mennonites in Bolivia routinely drugged and raped female (and, some have suggested, male) residents, leaving their victims bloody, bruised, and covered in ... Read More »

August 17, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Madame Victoria

By Catherine Leroux; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

Montreal-based author Catherine Leroux was shortlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize for the English translation of her second novel, The Party Wall. Leroux returns with a new novel in translation (once again in collaboration ... Read More »

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Beirut Hellfire Society

By Rawi Hage

“This is a book of mourning for the many who witnessed senseless wars, and for those who perished in those wars.” So writes Rawi Hage in the acknowledgements to his fourth novel. Death is front ... Read More »

August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Saturday Night Ghost Club

By Craig Davidson

Despite producing a sizable output of genre horror under the pen name Nick Cutter and Precious Cargo, a 2016 memoir about his year as a bus driver for kids with special needs (a book that ... Read More »

August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Up from Freedom

By Wayne Grady

When writer Wayne Grady was 47 years old, he discovered a family secret. His father, whom he had known as a white man, was in fact a Black man passing for white. This revelation inspired ... Read More »

August 2, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Machine Without Horses

By Helen Humphreys

In a 2017 Maclean’s magazine interview about her non-fiction title The Ghost Orchard, which blended meticulous research and historical fact with a few dalliances into fiction, Helen Humphreys described how her writing had morphed into ... Read More »

July 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Memoir & Biography

My Name Is a Knife

By Alix Hawley

Alix Hawley’s My Name Is a Knife is the sequel to her acclaimed 2015 novel All True Not a Lie in It, which won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank ... Read More »

July 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Trickster Drift

By Eden Robinson

The new novel by B.C. author Eden Robinson is the second in a planned trilogy and the follow-up to Son of a Trickster, which landed on last year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist. Son of a ... Read More »

July 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Original Prin

By Randy Boyagoda

Any western novel that takes as its main character an academic named “Prin” will necessarily endure associations – intended or otherwise – with an earlier campus novel about an eponymous protagonist whose name chimes directly. ... Read More »

July 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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