The Wonder

Emma Donoghue’s latest novel thrusts us back into a small, claustrophobic room. Inside is a child, and once again, the child’s life is in danger. An intense drama unfolds. You are never sure how it ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Three Years with the Rat

By Jay Hosking

Jay Hosking has an interesting CV for a novelist, with both a PhD in neuroscience and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Given this hybrid background it’s perhaps not surprising ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Parcel

By Anosh Irani

As engrossing as any thriller, Anosh Irani’s fourth novel offers readers so much more. An aggregate of storytelling accomplishments, The Parcel captivates with its vividly rendered characters and commands the reader’s attention by way of ... Read More »

July 28, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

New Albion

By Dwayne Brenna

As aficionados of the theatre know, the Victorian age was arguably one of the bleakest eras for the art form, complete with grubby dressing rooms, dingy performance halls, pathetic wages, unappreciative audiences, and stale, torrid ... Read More »

July 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Congratulations on Everything

By Nathan Whitlock

The next time you find yourself in a bar, consider buying a drink for the owner, because it’s likely he or she needs it more than you. At least, that’s what writer and Q&Q contributing ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Life in the Court of Matane

By Eric Dupont; Peter McCambridge (trans.)

All Quebecers, it seemed, turned on their televisions during the summer of 1976, when the elfin Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci competed at the Montreal Olympics. The fascination was not just in her perfect 10-point performances. ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

By Madeleine Thien

There is so much going on in Madeleine Thien’s third novel that it’s hard, at times, to keep things straight. Nevertheless, the book is worth the effort because of the richness of detail the author ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Spawning Grounds

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Fire is the element that threatens the people and land of south-central B.C.’s Thompson-Shuswap region in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s 2007 novel, Turtle Valley. The author’s latest book is set in the same landscape, but this time ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Who Will Catch Us as We Fall

By Iman Verjee

Edmonton-based Iman Verjee’s 2012 debut, In Between Dreams (which won the U.K.’s Peters Fraser and Dunlop/City University Prize for fiction), is set in a sleepy Canadian town. The novelist’s sophomore effort, Who Will Catch Us ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Gaslight

By Steven Price

Steven Price’s By Gaslight is a 19th-century sensation novel rewritten with a noir sensibility: Wilkie Collins meets Raymond Chandler. And it goes some way toward meeting our expectations for books of that kind – that ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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