Fatboy Fall Down

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

The Migration

By Helen Marshall

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

Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

By Megan Gail Coles

In her debut novel, Newfoundland playwright and author Megan Gail Coles uses a trendy St. John’s restaurant (complete with local celebrity chef) called the Hazel as the connection that binds a cast of depressed, desperate, ... Read More »

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

Swimming with Horses

By Oakland Ross

For 15-year-old Sam Mitchell of the fictional Toronto suburb Kelso, the summer of 1963 is life-changing. That season marks the mysterious arrival of 18-year-old Hilary Anson, a transplant from South Africa who comes to stay ... Read More »

January 10, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Days by Moonlight

By André Alexis

“Days by Moonlight is not a work of realism. It’s not a work that uses the imagination to show the real, but one that uses the real to show the imagination.” So writes André Alexis ... Read More »

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

Seven Days

By Patrick Senécal; Howard Scott and Phyllis Aronoff (trans.)

The name Patrick Senécal may not mean much to English-language readers, but in his home province, the author is a bona fide literary blockbuster. Frequently referred to as Quebec’s Stephen King, Senécal sells in the ... Read More »

December 20, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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