The Red Chesterfield

An abandoned sofa and a grisly find set the action in motion in the latest work from Edmonton author Wayne Arthurson. In a sharp deconstruction of the conventions of the mystery genre, Arthurson uses prose ... Read More »

October 31, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Against the Wind

By Jim Tilley

Imagine the comedic possibilities if Oscar Wilde had penned a play about a foursome involving two women both romantically involved with the same two men. Such a play would have been a laugh a minute. ... Read More »

October 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Lampedusa

By Steven Price

Steven Price's Lampedusa, a fictional account of how Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa came to write the classic novel The Leopard, doesn't deal in shocking revelations or major plot twists. In fact, anyone familiar with Tomasi's ... Read More »

October 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chasing Painted Horses

By Drew Hayden Taylor

Prolific and award-winning Ojibway writer and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor returns with a new novel, his first full-length work of prose fiction for adults since 2010’s Motorcycles and Sweetgrass. One cold morning, a Toronto police ... Read More »

October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Paper Houses

By Dominique Fortier; Rhonda Mullins (trans.)

The French language makes no distinction between the words for house and home – an inadequacy according to Governor General’s Literary Award–winning writer Dominique Fortier, whose sixth novel, Paper Houses, traces a fictionalized version of ... Read More »

October 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Island

By Johanna Skibsrud

In her 2001 memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand recalls that her grandfather told her “he knew what people we came from.” Despite the 13-year-old Brand’s prodding, which included rhyming ... Read More »

October 7, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Little Fortress

By Laisha Rosnau

In 1921, the Caetani family – Duke Leone, his wife, Ofelia, and their daughter, Sveva – fled their native Italy for Vernon, B.C., in part because the Duke was anti-Mussolini and wanted to extricate his ... Read More »

September 30, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Dead Heat

By Benedek Totth; Ildikó Noémi Nagy (trans.)

Early on in Hungarian author Benedek Totth’s debut novel, the unnamed teenaged protagonist has a dream in which his dead father – now with the head of a shark – pleads, “Keep swimming, son, even ... Read More »

September 30, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Work

By Maria Meindl

In Maria Meindl’s debut novel, set in 1980s Toronto, a stage manager falls for the enigmatic owner of a cutting-edge theatre company. Rebecca Weir joins SenseInSound, whose rehearsals take place in a cold, underground warehouse. ... Read More »

September 30, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Here I Am!

By Pauline Holdstock

The new novel from Victoria writer Pauline Holdstock begins with six-year-old Frankie sneaking aboard a ship bound for France. His mother has just died, and Frankie’s plan is to cross the ocean, find a police ... Read More »

September 23, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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