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Wallflowers

By Eliza Robertson

The debut short-fiction collection by B.C. author Eliza Robertson is carefully composed – perhaps too much so. The collection’s 17 stories – including “My Sister Sang,” which was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Chez l’Arabe

By Mireille Silcoff

Though this collection of short stories is the first work of fiction from Montreal’s Mireille Silcoff, the author’s name may already be familiar to readers. Silcoff is a regular National Post columnist and has previously ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Leaving Tomorrow

By David Bergen

The eighth novel by Scotiabank Giller Prize winner David Bergen continues the Winnipeg writer’s exploration into the complicated lives of ordinary people. Bergen is a master at delving into the psychology of his characters, often ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Come Back

By Rudy Wiebe

Twenty-five years after his eldest son, Gabe, committed suicide, retired professor and recent widower Hal Wiens sees Gabe walking along Whyte Avenue in the snowy Edmonton spring. Following a fruitless chase, Hal returns home alone ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sons and Fathers

By Daniel Goodwin

The fraught nature of male friendships is the subject of Daniel Goodwin’s well-structured and hyper-realistic debut novel. Inverting the title of the Turgenev classic Fathers and Sons, Goodwin presents three men – Michael, Eli, and ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Walt

By Russell Wangersky

Russell Wangersky’s oeuvre includes a pair of story collections (2006’s The Hour of Bad Decisions and 2012’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted Whirl Away), a memoir about his experiences as a volunteer firefighter (2008’s Burning Down the ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels