Fiction: Novels

★ The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupré

First-time novelist Sarah Kathryn York chose an unusual format for her book about Edouard Beaupré, also known as the Willow Bunch Giant, a Canadian from a small community in Southern Saskatchewan who succumbed to tuberculosis ... Read More »

April 23, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Headmaster’s Wager

By Vincent Lam

Vincent Lam made a literary splash when his first work of fiction, the story collection Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Following his short biography of Tommy Douglas, Lam turns to ... Read More »

April 18, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Deadly Accusations

By Debra Purdy Kong

Debra Purdy Kong’s second Casey Holland mystery begins with two rather prosaic situations. Kids are regularly brawling on Vancouver’s Mainland Public Transit buses, and someone is hurling stones at bus windows. Casey, considered MPT’s best ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Carpenter

By Matt Lennox

From the early 20th century to the present, from George Orwell to Ian McEwan and, most recently, Alain de Botton, there has been a tradition of taking novelists to task for failing to represent the ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Westlake Soul

By Rio Youers

Rio Youers’ ambitious second novel is told from the perspective of Westlake Soul, a 23-year-old surfer who has been paralyzed after a brutal wipeout. He lives in a persistent vegetative state under the care of ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Daughters Who Walk this Path

By Yejide Kilanko

Ontario resident Yejide Kilanko’s first novel transports readers to her native Nigeria, telling a dark coming-of-age story that brings attention to the kind of violence many women suffer in silence. Daughters Who Walk this Path ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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By Will Ferguson

Over the last decade, Will Ferguson has made the seemingly effortless transition from successful humorist and travel writer to successful comic novelist. Generica, his 2001 satire of the self-help industry, was a surprise hit at ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Maidenhead

By Tamara Faith Berger

Not counting the 2005 film adaptation of her debut novel, Lie with Me, it’s been seven years since Tamara Faith Berger – lit-porn provocateur extraordinaire – last satiated readers, with her sophomore novel, The Way ... Read More »

April 2, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lake on the Mountain

By Jeffrey Round

Jeffrey Round’s sixth novel can’t quite decide what it wants to be. It is alternately a lyrical evocation of one of Ontario’s strangest phenomena, Prince Edward County’s elevated lake, which never runs dry despite lacking ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Next One to Fall

By Hilary Davidson

Following the death of her addict sister, Lily Moore is in Peru for a working holiday. Like her creator, Toronto-born author Hilary Davidson, Lily is a travel writer, and that background pays off in Davidson’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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