Fiction: Novels

All-Day Breakfast

With his new novel, Penticton, B.C., writer and teacher Adam Lewis Schroeder breaks with his literary past – which includes novels like In the Fabled East, a finalist for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – ... Read More »

February 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Damned

By Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper has built a successful career writing hauntingly suspenseful supernatural thrillers. He takes another trip to the dark side with his eighth novel, this time focusing on the hope and horror within everyday existence ... Read More »

February 17, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wolf Winter

By Cecilia Ekbäck

Wolf Winter is the debut novel from Swedish born, Calgary-based author Cecilia Ekbäck. Set in 1717 Sweden, the novel opens on Frederika and Dorthea who, along with their parents, have moved from Finland to Blackasen ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ravenscrag

By Alain Farah; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

The new novel by Montreal writer and French literature professor Alain Farah is less a book than an experience, a series of reactions shifting from confusion to frustration to a gradually dawning understanding and, ultimately, ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Owl and the Japanese Circus

By Kristi Charish

Alix Hiboux, the protagonist of Kristi Charish’s debut novel, is a grad student turned antiquities thief with one rule: she will not take on any jobs involving supernatural elements. With that stipulation in place, it’s ... Read More »

February 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hunger of the Wolf

By Stephen Marche

Stephen Marche, perhaps best known for his controversial opinion pieces in Esquire and elsewhere, has shifted literary gears with The Hunger of the Wolf, his offering to the popular genre of the sweeping family saga. ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Green Hotel

By Jesse Gilmour

One good turn deserves another. Jesse Gilmour, son of novelist David Gilmour, was the subject of his father’s best-selling 2007 memoir, The Film Club. Now he has come forth with his own book, a novella ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rewrite

By Temenuga Trifonova

York University professor Temenuga Trifonova’s debut novel is a provocative intellectual mystery, delving into the curious world of academia and the perplexities of personal identity. The story follows Bruno Leblon, a university lecturer in Paris ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Evening Chorus

By Helen Humphreys

"There is nothing natural about a human being,” admits Rose Hunter, one of three central characters in Helen Humphreys’ latest novel. Set in the wartime England of The Lost Garden (2002) and Coventry (2008), and ... Read More »

February 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If I Fall, If I Die

By Michael Christie

The grim industrial waterfront of Thunder Bay, Ontario, is the setting for the debut novel by B.C.-based author Michael Christie. This atmospheric work of gritty realism explores themes of class mobility, self-determination, and the impact ... Read More »

January 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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