Fiction: Novels

The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep

Varosha is a real place that reads like a dream-world. Once a luxurious resort town within the Greek-Cypriot city of Famagusta, it has, since the 1974 Turkish invasion, become a ghost town, abandoned, fenced in, ... Read More »

February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Men Walking on Water

By Emily Schultz

Humans are doomed to want what they can’t have. Which is why pursuing the forbidden is one of the oldest yet ripest genres of story we’ve got, from Adam and Eve swiping the apple on ... Read More »

February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Our Wrong Todays

By Elan Mastai

The premise of screenwriter Elan Mastai’s All Our Wrong Todays is almost perversely appropriate for our present moment. The year is 2016. Narrator Tom Barren has grown up as a shiftless underachiever in a Jetsons-inspired ... Read More »

February 9, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Al-Tounsi

By Anton Piatigorsky

American history is largely a construction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Patriots loudly bray about democracy and the Constitution, but realists understand that the unelected judiciary is charged with interpreting the law of the land, ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Museum at the End of the World

By John Metcalf

“John Metcalf is not the enemy,” wrote Jeet Heer in the National Post in 2010. He was responding to a Walrus essay by André Alexis which argued that Metcalf, who was born in 1938 in ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Baloney

By Maxime Raymond Bock; Pablo Strauss (trans.)

Maxime Raymond Bock, author of the short-story collection Atavisms (which won the 2012 Prix Adrienne-Choquette and appeared in an English translation by Pablo Strauss) and the novella Rosemont de profil, returns with the deceptive Baloney, ... Read More »

January 26, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mad Richard

By Lesley Krueger

Lesley Krueger’s Mad Richard opens in Bedlam. Also known as the Bethlem Royal Hospital for the mentally ill, it houses artist Richard Dadd, who we learn in the book’s first paragraph is a murderer. A ... Read More »

January 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lonely Hearts Hotel

By Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill explored the short-story form in her previous book, Daydreams of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A departure from her first two titles, the best-selling novels Lullabies for Little ... Read More »

January 16, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shot-Blue

By Jesse Ruddock

Tristan is always alone. Sure, there are people around him, names and voices that float in and out of Jesse Ruddock’s debut novel. These characters bounce questions and attempts at intimacy off of Tristan’s young, ... Read More »

January 9, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Archaeologists

By Hal Niedzviecki

The Archaeologists is the 12th book from writer, culture critic, and Broken Pencil founder Hal Niedzviecki, and he says it’s a departure from his previous fiction in both style and content – most notably from ... Read More »

January 3, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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