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Filaria

By Brent Hayward

Filaria is a double debut: the first book to be published by the new macabre fiction imprint ChiZine Publications (an offshoot of the Chiaroscuro website run by Toronto author Brett Savory), as well as the ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shuck

By Daniel Allen Cox

Shuck, a startling debut novel by Montreal’s Daniel Allen Cox, charts one young man’s path from homeless street hustler to porn superstar to aspiring writer. The story’s a lot more hopeful than it sounds.     ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Inside Out Girl

By Tish Cohen

Based on the success of Town House, Torontonian Tish Cohen’s debut novel, you might expect her to stick to a similar formula for her follow-up, Inside Out Girl. Many of the same elements are here: ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Catch

By Louisa McCormack

Like all good chick-lit heroines, Minerva Gallant is brimming with pluck and drive. She’s successful and well liked at her job as a television producer. She’s the gal who’s confident enough to cut her friends’ ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nellie McClung

By Charlotte Gray

In the struggle to help Canadians learn more about their past, Penguin Canada has launched a series of mini-histories designed to reach out to the general reader. The Extraordinary Canadians series, edited by John Ralston ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Emily Carr

By Lewis DeSoto

In the struggle to help Canadians learn more about their past, Penguin Canada has launched a series of mini-histories designed to reach out to the general reader. The Extraordinary Canadians series, edited by John Ralston ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Repose

By Adam Getty

There is a line from Adam Getty’s Gerald Lampert Award-winning first poetry collection, Reconciliation, that encapsulates one of his larger thematic concerns: “There// is nothing human here but the usual/ grinding beneath the wheel.”     ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry