Fiction: Novels

Quartet for the End of Time

With the centenary of the First World War upon us – not to mention the ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq, and elsewhere – a story like Quartet for the End of Time, which explores ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Answer to Everything

By Elyse Friedman

You are standing in front of a mechanical contraption, and you have a choice: push the big black SAVE button and preserve a one-of-a-kind photograph, or do nothing and watch the image obliterate in a ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Five Days Left

By Julie Lawson Timmer

Julie Lawson Timmer lets you know how highly dramatic her debut novel will be in the opening paragraph: “Mara had chosen the method long ago: pills, vodka and carbon monoxide. A ‘garage cocktail,’ she called ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blind Spot

By Laurence Miall

Most Western readers know the story of Meursault, a French Algerian who, upon learning of his mother’s death, returns home for her funeral. Though the funeral leaves him unmoved, he subsequently embarks upon a spree ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cloud

By Erin McCormack

The strengths of Cloud relate directly to our conviction in Harry Steen, its elderly narrator. Considering Steen’s generally acquiescent and inward personality, his far-flung and adventure-stuffed story (which recalls any number of old-time “guy lit” ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Who by Fire

By Fred Stenson

Alberta author Fred Stenson’s unsettling, cautionary new novel takes its title from “Unetaneh Tokef,” a Jewish liturgical poem associated with the Day of Atonement. Referenced in a Leonard Cohen song that shares a title with ... Read More »

October 9, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Adult Onset

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

Adult Onset is the third novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald, who is also a playwright, actor, and broadcaster. The first two books, Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies, involved the sexual abuse ... Read More »

September 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Broken Hours

By Jacqueline Baker

Posthumously revered for such short stories as “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Call of Cthulhu,” Howard Phillips Lovecraft eked out a poor existence on a dwindling inheritance, ultimately succumbing to cancer in his ... Read More »

September 22, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Consumed

By David Cronenberg

Do you think a new esthetic can develop? Cancer beauty? ... Will non-cancerous women be begging their cosmetic surgeons to give them false nodes implants?” Imbued with notions of body modification this unsettling, could Consumed ... Read More »

September 15, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love Enough

By Dionne Brand

In 1990, Dionne Brand released No Language is Neutral, a poetry collection preoccupied, as much of Brand’s writing is, with the limitations of language to verbalize the experience of the oppressed, and with history’s inability ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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