Fiction: Novels

The High Mountains of Portugal

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

The Angels’ Share

By Garfield Ellis

Everton Dorrill, a 37-year-old marketing executive in Jamaica, is about to make an important presentation when he learns his 67-year-old father, who has been out of his life for decades, has disappeared. From this elementary ... Read More »

January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Princeling of Nanjing

By Ian Hamilton

With The Princeling of Nanjing – the ninth instalment in his well-loved mystery series featuring globe-trotting accountant Ava Lee – Ian Hamilton continues to face down the largest problem confronting writers of successful series: his ... Read More »

January 4, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Here Comes the Dreamer

By Carole Giangrande

As a form, the novella is not simply a shorter version of a novel or a long short story, something American-born author Carole Giangrande, a committed proponent of the novella, knows well. In a 2014 ... Read More »

December 22, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Carry Me

By Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens is a Montreal-bred writer of Irish descent who has taught in California and currently divides his time between Maine and Texas. In his fiction, this roving biography finds expression in acute attention to ... Read More »

December 16, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Shadows We Mistake for Love

By Tom Wayman

Near the end of “Green Hell,” the second of 14 stories in Tom Wayman’s wonderful new collection (all set in the West Kootenay region of B.C.’s Slocan Valley), Billy, the lone occupant of a table ... Read More »

November 23, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Heyday

By Marnie Woodrow

With Heyday, novelist and playwright Marnie Woodrow has deftly threaded two parallel narratives from very different time periods. The contemporary half of her story ambitiously relies on the inner thoughts of Joss, a recovering alcoholic ... Read More »

November 16, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Between the Cracks She Fell

By Lisa de Nikolits

Lisa de Nikolits announces her ambition on the first page of her fifth novel, name-checking Gibreel Farishta, one of the main characters in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. Following the loss of her “house to ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Place of Shining Light

By Nazneen Sheikh

Corruption and greed in modern Pakistan take centre stage in the new novel from Kashmiri-born Sheikh, author of the memoir Moon Over Marrakech. A wealthy (and politically ambitous) art collector purchases a 5,000-year-old Buddhist sculpture ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hope Makes Love

By Trevor Cole

Hope Riopelle is a post-doc fellow in Toronto doing research on the brain. Zep Baker is a former pro baseball player trying to reunite with his ex-wife, Emily. Zep wants Hope to help him achieve ... Read More »

October 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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