Fiction: Novels

Between

Angie Abdou’s third novel is primarily concerned with the tension between two disperate cultural perspectives, and the nature of female identity it illuminates. Vero is a well-drawn portrait of a harried wife and unhinged mother: ... Read More »

August 11, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tell

By Frances Itani

It has been more than 10 years since Frances Itani found “overnight success” with her novel Deafening, after publishing several volumes of poetry and short stories over the course of the previous three decades. The ... Read More »

July 31, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The World Before Us

By Aislinn Hunter

"Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past,” wrote T.S. Eliot in “Burnt Norton.” Aislinn Hunter’s intricately composed and gripping sophomore novel ... Read More »

July 28, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Interference

By Michelle Berry

In a season of manicured lawns, backyard BBQs, and the comforting illusion of middle-class normalcy, Michelle Berry’s uncanny fifth novel reminds us that even the most seemingly ordinary neighbourhoods may be anything but. Beginning in ... Read More »

July 24, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Child of a Hidden Sea

By A.M. Dellamonica

Even by the action-oriented standards of the fantasy genre, A.M. Dellamonica’s new novel begins with a bang. Or, rather, a splash. Sophie Hansa is searching for her birth mother when she intervenes in a fight ... Read More »

July 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mating for Life

By Marissa Stapley

In her debut novel, Toronto’s Marissa Stapley challenges entrenched ideas of what it means to be a wife and mother, and explores how modern women often struggle to maintain their own identities in the face ... Read More »

July 10, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Guyana

By Élise Turcotte; Rhonda Mullins (trans.)

Rhonda Mullins’ translation of Montreal writer Élise Turcotte’s 2011 novel instantly transports readers into a cramped world that nearly shimmers with fear. Ana is clinging to a tenuous bond with her touch-averse young son, Philippe, ... Read More »

July 7, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Plague

By C.C. Humphreys

The new thriller by C.C. Humphreys opens in England in the year 1665. Gentleman thief and ex-cavalier Captain Coke is being pursued by Pitman, a bounty hunter and former roundhead with a growing family to ... Read More »

July 3, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Open Secret

By Deryn Collier

With her second novel, Deryn Collier returns to the fictional B.C. town of Kootenay Landing and to the character of former Canadian Forces commander Bern Fortin, who now works as the town coroner. Collier continues ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Little Bastards in Springtime

By Katja Rudolph

Almost two decades ago, the war in Bosnia was belatedly forced to an end by Western diplomats. Katja Rudolph’s debut novel is a visceral reminder that we share our country with survivors of this and ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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