The Purchase

The past sometimes seems like a beautiful place, but it is a damn good thing we don’t live there anymore. Linda Spalding’s new novel begins in Pennsylvania in 1798, when Daniel Dickinson and his young ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Deception of Livvy Higgs

By Donna Morrissey

A main theme of Donna Morrissey’s fifth novel is the fine line between secrets and lies. Every character has something to hide, whether out of malice, greed, or simply self-preservation and privacy. The pattern of ... Read More »

September 17, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Until the Night

By Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt, a pivotal figure in the Canadian crime fiction scene, returns with the sixth instalment of his series featuring detective duo John Cardinal and Lise Delorme. Over the course of the previous books, as ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Freak

By Jennifer Hillier

In Jennifer Hillier’s debut thriller, Creep, the Tell Tale Heart Killer abducted and murdered several young Seattle women. Hillier’s tense sophomore effort returns to the setting of the earlier book one year later. High-end escorts ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beautiful Mystery

By Louise Penny

Cloistered in a remote Northern Quebec monastery, 24 monks of the Gilbertine order, long thought to have vanished altogether, sing glorious Gregorian plainchants and exist happily with minimal contact from the outside world. For hundreds ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rock Reject

By Jim Williams

There is no question that asbestos is dangerous. Jim Williams’ Rock Reject, which won the inaugural Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature, is dedicated to the 100,000 people who die each year from exposure to ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cadillac Couches

By Sophie B. Watson

Admit it: we’ve all had our share of celebrity crushes. In her quirky first novel, set in the late 1990s, author Sophie B. Watson explores the fantasy of meeting a fave celeb through her protagonists, ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Blessed Snarl

By Samuel Thomas Martin

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad,” the poet tells us. This sad fact of life is comprehensively borne out by Samuel Thomas Martin’s debut novel. Set in Newfoundland, it tells the story of ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Shore Girl

By Fran Kimmel

The debut novel from Alberta-based author Fran Kimmel revolves around a young girl’s turbulent and peripatetic life with her mother – a conflict that initially strikes a too-familiar chord. But the story’s twists and turns ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Anna from Away

By D.R. MacDonald

Readers can be forgiven for glancing at the cover image and title of D.R. MacDonald’s new novel and thinking, “Oh no, not another Canadian novel of austere landscapes and rural folk who don’t take to ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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