Fiction: Novels

Burning Paradise

It’s the fall of 2014, and plans are underway to mark the centenary of the Great Armistice treaty, which has brought lasting peace to the world. It’s been a period without widespread war overseen by ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Troop

By Nick Cutter

Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Craig Davidson couldn’t have come up with a less inspired pseudonym than Nick Cutter for this pure-genre outing, but that’s the only knock against an otherwise outstanding tale of terror, full ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Really Dead

By J.E. Forman

Really Dead begins with Pam, a reality show production assistant, finding a severed foot on a Caribbean beach. The ankle shows a tattoo resembling one belonging to another PA, Kate Bond, who has disappeared from ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shallow Enough to Walk Through

By Marissa Reaume

For her debut novel, Marissa Reaume has chosen a stalwart, tried-and-true theme: the blocked writer courting a reluctant muse. Twentysomething Sara Pierce, who lives with her married, germophobic roommate in Windsor, Ontario, despairs of her ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

PostApoc

By Liz Worth

Liz Worth’s debut novel is grim, dark, and unflinching. As the sole survivor of a mass suicide pact, Ang is barely hanging on. Her close companions, all of whom were part of an underground music ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Newcomers

By Lily Poritz Miller

Four years after her critically praised debut, In a Pale Blue Light, Lily Poritz Miller returns with a second instalment in the lives of the Hoffman family, first of Lithuania, then South Africa, now newly ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Figures of Beauty

By David Macfarlane

Following more than a decade after his Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated debut Summer Gone, David Macfarlane’s second novel – a meditation on beauty in art, history, nature, landscape, and relationships – moves back and forth in ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

October 1970

By Louis Hamelin; Wayne Grady, trans.

There are legions of people who believe that Elvis is still alive, JFK was shot by the Russians, and the CIA orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Closer to home, conspiracy theorists believe the 1970 October ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Independence

By Cecil Foster

Cecil Foster was 12 years old in 1966 when Barbados gained independence from Britain. Foster’s first novel in almost a dozen years delves into the formative period of the newly liberated nation, as seen through ... Read More »

February 10, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Helium

By Jaspreet Singh

Helium is a haunted novel. Virtually every page in this masterful tale by Toronto’s Jaspreet Singh (Chef) features a visitation from the dead or a trip to an otherworldly past. Literary figures as far apart ... Read More »

February 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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