Fiction: Novels

★ We’re All In This Together

Some writers who begin their careers writing short fiction have a difficult time transitioning to the broader art of novel construction. The two forms, though seemingly similar, are in fact as distinct from one another ... Read More »

April 5, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Glory Over Everything

By Kathleen Grissom

Glory Over Everything, the second novel by Saskatchewan-raised, Virginia-based Kathleen Grissom, is the sequel to the New York Times bestseller and book-club favourite The Kitchen House. Drawing its title from the words of abolitionist Harriet ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

From Up River and for One Night Only

By Brett Josef Grubisic

In our attention-span-devoid, smartphone-optimized era, it seems rare – nostalgic even – for an author to prioritize meticulous craft over an action-packed storyline. Though University of British Columbia lecturer in English (and Q&Q reviewer) Brett ... Read More »

February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel

By Katherine Govier

Having spent the past decade writing about Japan, Katherine Govier turns her gaze homeward in her latest novel – not to Toronto, where the author has lived for many years, but to her birthplace of ... Read More »

February 24, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stopgap

By Liam Card

Luke Stevenson dies in a car accident on his birthday, rushing to a dinner party he doesn’t want to attend, filled with people he doesn’t really like, and thrown by his wife, Alice, whom he ... Read More »

February 23, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Black Apple

By Joan Crate

The shameful legacy of Canada’s residential school system, the church-run educational regime that forcibly plucked First Nations children from their homes in a effort to compel their assimilation into mainstream (meaning European) culture, has been ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Crooked Heart of Mercy

By Billie Livingston

We’ll survive. That’s what we do.” Such is the central sentiment of Billie Livingston’s fourth novel, a sombre yet striking story of a small group of damaged characters connected by their efforts to endure, through ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Measure of Darkness

By Liam Durcan

There comes a time when everyone must undertake an accounting of all they’ve accomplished, for good or ill, in their personal and professional lives. Usually this happens around middle age, when we can no longer ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light

By Cordelia Strube

Smart and sassy girls are the focus of Cordelia Strube’s latest novel, a masterful blend of comedy and tragedy that delves into contemporary family life. At the heart of the book is 11-year-old Harriet, who ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The High Mountains of Portugal

By Yann Martel

Grief engenders both emotional and physical exile for the characters in Yann Martel’s fourth novel, told in three intersecting tales spanning nearly a century. A trio of men who have each suffered great losses set ... Read More »

January 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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