Fiction: Novels

The Devil You Know

Violence against women as it is typically portrayed in novels, TV series, and movies involves an intrusion of the pathological upon otherwise safe lives. In these fictional scenarios, teams of helpful, well-trained police officers work ... Read More »

January 12, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Deep

By Nick Cutter

Following up his sensational 2014 debut thriller, The Troop, was never going to be easy for Nick Cutter. But the author shows no lack of ambition in The Deep, another spectacular journey into the extremes ... Read More »

January 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Savour

By Jackie Bateman

In her new novel, Vancouver author Jackie Bateman – who lived in Edinburgh and London before relocating to the West Coast – brings a unique and unsettling perspective to the otherwise hoary trope of the ... Read More »

December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Girl Before, the Girl After

By Louis-Philippe Hébert; Jonathan Kaplansky trans.

The perils of romantic preoccupation inform The Girl Before, the Girl After, the translation of Quebec poet and novelist Louis-Philippe Hébert’s 2012 novella, Celle d’avant et celle d’après. With its unconventional structure and evocative sexual ... Read More »

December 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Paths of Desire

By Emmanuel Kattan; Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo trans.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict sits at the heart of Montreal-born novelist Emmanuel Kattan’s latest offering in translation. While Kattan frames his story as a genre mystery, the larger thematic ties to the Middle East crisis lend ... Read More »

December 18, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barker

By Wayne Tefs

The latest and, unfortunately, final novel by Winnipeg author Wayne Tefs (who died of cancer in September), is a mesmerizing tale of self-discovery about Harlan, an unusual teenaged boy living on a hardscrabble Saskatchewan farm ... Read More »

December 15, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

By Emma Hooper

Debut novelist Emma Hooper provides a carefully calibrated setting, but not all the elements in this book come through so vibrantly, writes Dory Cerny Early one morning, 82-year-old Etta Kinnick puts on her boots, fills ... Read More »

December 11, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, History

Grey Eyes

By Frank Christopher Busch

In Grey Eyes, Frank Christopher Busch takes the reader back to a pre-contact aboriginal society. At the start of the novel, a grey-eyed child known as Little Grey Bear Boy is born; his birth changes ... Read More »

December 1, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, History

Celia’s Song

By Lee Maracle

Generations of First Nations in Canada have suffered a history of unthinkable trauma and hardship in the aftermath of European settlement, prompting ongoing attempts at healing and reconciliation. Lee Maracle’s new novel, a work of ... Read More »

November 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Sudden Sun

By Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

Choice and circumstance have great power to alter the direction of a life; so too does history. The late-19th and early 20th centuries were a period of tumult and social change: women’s suffrage was sweeping ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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