Fiction: Novels

Everybody Has Everything

Six years after her successful debut novel, How Happy to Be, Toronto journalist Katrina Onstad returns with the highly anticipated follow-up. Professional couple Ana and James are child-free, though not for lack of trying. Years ... Read More »

June 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Professionals

By Owen Lukkanen

Arthur Pender and his college friends have few prospects and many reasons to turn to crime after the U.S. economic collapse. Embarking on what they call “the Pender Program,” the group launches into a series ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bloodman

By Robert Pobi

The debut novel from Montreal writer Robert Pobi begins with a classic trope of literary fiction: a middle-aged man returns home to care for his aging father, now suffering from Alzheimer’s. For Jake Cole, that ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Triggers

By Robert J. Sawyer

The premise of Robert J. Sawyer’s 21st novel seems like a recipe for a great thriller. In a near-future Washington, D.C., the U.S. president is shot by a sniper. He survives, but while he’s in ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Basement of Wolves

By Daniel Allen Cox

In this dark, twisted look at Hollywood celebrity, author Daniel Allen Cox shows us the seedy underbelly of the movie industry through the eyes of actor Michael-David. Ruined by fame and the banality of mainstream ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Hiccup

By Christopher Meades

Vancouver-based writer Christopher Meades follows up his 2010 debut, The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, with a sophomore effort that is both more ambitious and more accomplished. The earlier novel introduced Meades’ penchant for quirky, ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Magnified World

By Grace O’Connell

Toronto writer (and Q&Q reviewer) Grace O’Connell tackles serious subjects in her debut novel. Carol Pierce, who has been profoundly troubled for a long time, commits suicide by walking into the Don River with her ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Love Monster

By Missy Marston

In her debut novel, Ottawa author and poet Missy Marston is both fearless and quirky in her approach to some of the more difficult aspects of being human. Thirty-five-year-old Margaret H. Atwood sees no humour ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Against God

By Patrick Senécal; Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli, trans.

The first English-language translation of a work by best-selling Quebec author Patrick Senécal, Against God is a thrilling, unrelenting novella. Right from the get-go, a terrible accident throws our nameless protagonist into a state of ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tinsmith

By Tim Bowling

After finishing The Tinsmith, readers may be forgiven for concluding there’s no need for religions to construct versions of hell to keep the flock in line. That’s because Tim Bowling’s fourth novel grinds them through ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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