The Drowned Man

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

The Eliot Girls

By Krista Bridge

In her debut novel, Danuta Gleed Literary Award nominee Krista Bridge explores timeless and timely themes: adultery and psychological bullying among teen girls. The fictional George Eliot Academy in Toronto boasts a curriculum that blends ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Going Home Again

By Dennis Bock

Dennis Bock’s first two novels were about the fallout from war: the Second World War in 2001’s The Ash Garden, and the Spanish Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War in 2006’s The Communist’s Daughter. The ... Read More »

August 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Muse

By Mary Novik

In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier, A.S. Byatt, Sarah Dunant, and – more recently – Cathy Marie Buchanan, Mary Novik’s captivating second novel imagines the circumstances surrounding the creation of venerated works of art: in ... Read More »

August 8, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Search Angel

By Tish Cohen

What defines motherhood? Does it have to do simply with giving birth, or is it more closely connected to the matter of raising a child? In her fourth novel for adults, Tish Cohen tackles weighty ... Read More »

July 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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