★ The River

Comparing The River to Helen Humphreys’s critically acclaimed bestseller The Frozen Thames, her 2007 collection of vignettes about the eponymous river, it’s obvious that the author is not content to repeat past successes. The new ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Superior Man

By Paul Yee

Paul Yee has built a respected career as a children’s and young-adult author, from the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning picture book Ghost Train to the contemporary LGBT YA novel Money Boy. The author, who holds ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Escape Plans

By Teri Vlassopoulos

Writing about Bats or Swallows, Teri Vlassopoulos’s debut story collection, Q&Q reviewer Chelsea Murray said it “manages to evoke not just the uncertainty and fear of young adulthood, but its magic and inexplicable excitement as ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Inclusive

By Farzana Doctor

Despite having one setting – limbo – in which eating is altogether unnecessary and another – a Mexican resort – where cocktails assume a greater role than food, the quirky televised cooking contest Chopped sprang ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: 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

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