Fiction: Novels

Captive

By Claudine Dumont; David Scott Hamilton (trans.)

In her debut novel, Quebec photographer and teacher Claudine Dumont plunges the reader into the depths of a nightmare with a visceral immediacy that leaves one gasping for breath. Emma is the sort of person ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Book of Faith

By Elaine Kalman Naves

Jane Austen and Mordecai Richler are not names that suggest an immediate association. But they are the antecedents that the publisher of Elaine Kalman Naves’s debut novel invoke to describe the story of three women ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Outline

By Rachel Cusk

Here is a thumbnail sketch of Rachel Cusk’s Outline: a woman goes to Athens at the height of summer to teach a writing workshop following the end of her marriage. She meets a stream of ... Read More »

October 13, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Undermajordomo Minor

By Patrick deWitt

With the release of his third novel, there’s a lot of expectation resting on Patrick deWitt’s bony shoulders. Can Undermajordomo Minor possibly live up to the standard set by his wryly funny, dark, and often ... Read More »

October 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Martin John

By Anakana Schofield

Martin John Gaffney is frequently involved in public incidents, most of which involve exposing his erect penis to women who would rather not see it. In her audacious and original second novel, Vancouver author Anakana ... Read More »

October 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lake

By Perrine Leblanc; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

To read part one of The Lake, Perrine Leblanc’s follow-up to her Governor General’s Literary Award–winning first novel, Kolia, is to savour enough narrative eeriness to satisfy any David Lynch fan. In spare, allusive language, ... Read More »

September 24, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Sleep

By Nino Ricci

Seven years after the publication of his Governor General’s Literary Award–winning novel, The Origin of Species, Nino Ricci hits readers hard with a scorched-black account of a tormented man’s decline into sleeplessness and self-destruction. Sleep, ... Read More »

September 17, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Heart Goes Last

By Margaret Atwood

As one might expect, given her recent MaddAddam trilogy – and, of course, The Handmaid’s Tale – the near-future as imagined by Margaret Atwood in The Heart Goes Last is bleak indeed. Following a “big ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sistering

By Jennifer Quist

Jennifer Quist won the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award for her first novel, Love Letters of the Angels of Death. Her follow-up, Sistering, explores the complex relationships of five sisters who are ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Mouthquake

By Daniel Allen Cox

Daniel Allen Cox’s fourth novel, Mouthquake, is his most assured and accomplished to date. It opens on an anonymous young boy in Montreal who speaks with a stutter, conceives of himself as a German shepherd, ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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