Fiction: Novels

The Empress of Idaho

It’s the long, hot summer of 1989 and 14-year-old Adam Lisinski – high-school football star, loyal friend to Simon, good son to his single mom, Helen – is living on the wrong side of the ... Read More »

May 9, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Teardown

By David Homel

Paul, the journalist at the centre of David Homel’s latest novel, feels stuck. He’s disconnected from his family and believes his profession is dying. He’s grasping at anything that will bring meaning back to his ... Read More »

April 25, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Crow

By Amy Spurway

Stacey Fortune, nicknamed “Crow,” neatly encapsulates the trajectory of Nova Scotian author Amy Spurway’s debut novel early on: “Girl gets tumours, girl loses mind, girl dies, the end.” But the novel is actually about a ... Read More »

April 22, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Bina: A Novel in Warnings

By Anakana Schofield

As calendar year 2019 dawned, political junkies were staring in wonder at the pitched battle raging between U.S. president Donald Trump and incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Literary junkies, on the other hand, ... Read More »

April 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Children of the Moon

By Anthony De Sa

Anthony De Sa’s previous books – the Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated story collection Barnacle Love and the novel Kicking the Sky – both examined the experiences of Portuguese immigrants in and around the Toronto neighbourhood where ... Read More »

April 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Fatboy Fall Down

By Rabindranath Maharaj

The latest novel by Rabindranath Maharaj – author of last year’s Adjacentland and 2010’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy, which won the Toronto Book Award and the Trillium Book Award – is about a man nicknamed ... Read More »

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

This Country of Mine

By Didier Leclair; Elaine Kennedy (trans.)

The thematic weight of Didier Leclair’s 2003 novel Ce pays qui est le mien, now in an English translation by Elaine Kennedy, announces itself first in the title. The novel focuses on Apollinaire, an immigrant ... Read More »

March 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Provisionally Yours

By Antanas Sileika

Antanas Sileika’s bleak spy novel takes us into what for most readers will be unfamiliar territory: Lithuania just after the end of the First World War. Recently freed from German occupation and granted independence, the ... Read More »

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

Only Pretty Damned

By Niall Howell

Life behind the scenes at Rowland’s World Class Circus – the setting of Calgary writer Niall Howell’s striking debut novel – is a far cry from the bright lights and laughter of the big top. ... Read More »

February 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Homecoming

By Andrew Pyper

Family bonds are among the strongest and most enduring in the human experience. Blood relations, certainly – mother, father, siblings – but also those among chosen families that consist of spouses and adopted children or ... Read More »

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

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