That’s My Baby

Frances Itani’s previous book, the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated Tell, ends with the clandestine adoption of a baby girl called Hanorah. In Itani’s new novel, Hanorah is all grown up and determined to discover for ... Read More »

September 25, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Prisoner and the Chaplain

By Michelle Berry

Time is running out in different ways for the title characters of The Prisoner and the Chaplain. For the former, the hours between midnight and noon are slated to be the last of his life; he’s ... Read More »

September 19, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Wave

By Gillian Best

There is something about the sea that calls to people. Sailors, divers, beach vacationers – to those of us who feel most at home in the salty brine of a vast expanse of water, there ... Read More »

September 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lost in September

By Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter’s first novel, Annabel, made a deserved splash in 2010: it became a national bestseller and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a Governor General’s Literary ... Read More »

September 7, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dr. Bethune’s Children

By Xue Yiwei; Darryl Sterk (trans.)

A chance encounter in a Montreal supermarket brings back memories for the nameless narrator of Dr. Bethune’s Children, inspiring him to write a series of letters addressed to Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian communist who ... Read More »

September 7, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Burning Girl

By Claire Messud

Twelve-year-olds are much more sophisticated these days than they used to be, at least in Claire Messud’s fictional Boston suburb of Royston. Best friends since nursery school, Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes are only in ... Read More »

August 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

We All Love the Beautiful Girls

By Joanne Proulx

How far must someone be pushed before resorting to violence? This is the question that hangs over Joanne Proulx’s sophomore novel, a book that ricochets between the brutally violent and endearingly tender. Michael and Mia, ... Read More »

August 28, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Appraisal

By Anna Porter

The plot of The Appraisal finds Helena Marsh, an art expert skilled at disguises and unusually adept at killing, trying to authenticate a Titian painting for an elderly art collector named Géza Márton, whose family ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Only Café

By Linden MacIntyre

It doesn’t take much to spot the connections between Linden MacIntyre’s intriguing – if somewhat untidy – fifth novel and the author’s own eventful life. A good chunk of the story takes place in the ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Cage

By Kevin Hardcastle

Kevin Hardcastle’s debut novel demonstrates that the violent depredations dramatized in the fiction of Cormac McCarthy are not confined to the Texas–Mexico border: rural Canada works just fine as a locale. In the Cage finds ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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