★ Wild Rose

Sharon Butala’s seventh novel – and first work of fiction since the 2002 story collection Real Life – is the kind of near-perfect book that proclaims the full expression of a writer’s artistry and sensibility. ... Read More »

August 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

His Whole Life

By Elizabeth Hay

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” This is the question posed by 10-year-old Jim to his mother, Nancy, from the back seat of their old Chevette as they head north from New York City ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Gold Eaters

By Ronald Wright

In the opening pages of his absorbing new novel, Ronald Wright introduces the reader to a highly advanced 16th-century society. This empire of expanding dominion boasts sophisticated, monarchial governance; large, functioning cities; and sufficient engineering ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Close to Hugh

By Marina Endicott

Hugh Argylle, title character in Marina Endicott’s latest novel, owns a struggling art gallery in Peterborough, Ontario, and has a lot of people to look after. Over the course of the week in late October ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Makarska

By Makarska

You can never tell how others might react to your art. This is the takeaway from Jim Bartley’s new novel, Makarska, about one family’s lingering scars from the Bosnian War of the mid-1990s. The artist ... Read More »

July 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hunter and the Wild Girl

By Pauline Holdstock

The historical fiction of Pauline Holdstock covers an array of time and place. Her previous novel, Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2012, examined life in 18th-century Canada. ... Read More »

July 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Black Feathers

By Robert J. Wiersema

Frequent Q&Q reviewer Robert J. Wiersema has a decided taste for the fantastical, as two of his earlier novels, Bedtime Story and The World More Full of Weeping, demonstrate. His new book, Black Feathers, continues ... Read More »

July 13, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Birthday Lunch

By Joan Clark

Joan Clark is the author of numerous books for adults and young adults, including An Audience of Chairs, which was shortlisted for the Winterset Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel ... Read More »

July 6, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nightwatching

By Meira Cook

Eleven-year-old Ruthie Blackburn is at the heart of Méira Cook’s third novel. Cook grew up in Johannesburg and now lives in Winnipeg; like her previous novel, The House on Sugarbush Road (which won the 2013 ... Read More »

June 23, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Do You Think This Is Strange?

By Aaron Cully Drake

There is an inherent anxiety to any novel that tries to inhabit the voice of an “other.” Indeed, it can be downright treacherous to write (or read) as someone who experiences the world in a ... Read More »

June 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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