Fiction: Novels

Minister Without Portfolio

Henry Hayward is the eponymous official in Michael Winter’s latest novel, a brooding portrait of rural Newfoundland that, like the weather on the Rock, can turn menacing in a hurry. Henry, freshly heartbroken from a ... Read More »

September 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

MaddAddam

By Margaret Atwood

With MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood’s imposing speculative-fiction trilogy – spanning a decade that has seen at least a few of her predictions from Oryx & Crake and The Year of the Flood prove eerily prescient – ... Read More »

August 27, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Tap on the Window

By Linwood Barclay

Linwood Barclay’s 13th novel begins with one person dangling another over the river near Niagara Falls. Both are unidentified; who they are, and how they wound up in this situation, are only two of the ... Read More »

August 19, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved

By Joey Comeau

Horror is a tricky genre. Too often, authors working in this mode resort to shocks and unexpected twists for their scares. Truly effective horror, by contrast, is unsettling. It has a human element that relies ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Drowned Man

By David Whellams

One thing often overlooked in contemporary crime fiction is just how tedious police investigations actually are: real crimes are generally solved only after weeks or months of drudgery and boredom, not in the high-stakes, ticking-clock ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ballistics

By D.W. Wilson; D.W. Wilson

D.W. Wilson’s first book, 2011’s Once You Break a Knuckle, was a collection of brutal tales about guilt-ridden, impulsive fathers and sons with a taste for cheap beer and tendency toward messy violence, mostly set ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Restoration Artist

By Lewis DeSoto

Idealized and melancholic pastoral landscapes devoid of people. These are the paintings that Leo Millar, the protagonist of author Lewis DeSoto’s The Restoration Artist has made a good living from. Only after losing his beloved ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Emancipation Day

By Wayne Grady

Wayne Grady – former magazine writer and editor, author of 14 non-fiction titles, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning translator, and editor of numerous anthologies of both fiction and non-fiction – is not exactly new to the ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Family Took Shape

By Shashi Bhat

Whether Shashi Bhat’s debut novel is, as the author suggests, a “distorted projection” of her own life or an entirely imagined world is an open question. What is clear is that The Family Took Shape ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Dilettantes

By Michael Hingston

In his fiction debut, Michael Hingston, the books columnist for the Edmonton Journal, has delivered a campus novel from the perspective of the students, a clever twist that provides an entertaining – and somewhat alarming ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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