The Bourgeois Empire

Jules, the protagonist of Toronto poet Evie Christie’s debut novel, is a successful lawyer with a wife and kids, but he’s also lonely, bored, and saddled with a porn addiction. To make matters worse, his ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

How Should a Person Be?

By Sheila Heti

Relationships between identity, creativity, and friendship are explored in a humorous and intelligent – if somewhat monochromatic – manner in Toronto-based Sheila Heti’s new novel. Heti, who previously produced a novel (2005’s Ticknor) and short ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Book Will Not Save Your Life

By Michelle Berry

As Michelle Berry’s fourth novel begins, the ambulance carrying 28-year-old, 700-pound Sylvia Swamp has been diverted to a veterinary hospital. Sylvia has suffered a coronary embolism and needs a CT scan, but the machine at ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Everything Was Good-Bye

By Gurjinder Basran

Gurjinder Basran has earned an early reputation as a writer of promise: she is a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio, an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award finalist, and a writer touted by the Vancouver ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mordecai: The Life & Times

By Charles Foran

Mordecai Richler was many things to many people: to devoted fans of his sprawling novels he was the larger than life St. Urbain Street scribe; to newspaper and magazine readers he was a scathing political ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Punishing Ugly Children

By Darryl Joel Berger

Darryl Joel Berger’s debut short story collection is filled with distinctive characters, many pining for luck amidst bad situations and mile-long losing streaks. Whether his characters get what they want is ultimately less important than ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bedtime Story

By Robert J. Wiersema

Christopher Knox has been struggling to complete his second novel for nearly a decade, and his family is falling apart. He’s moved into the garage and is able to connect with his son, David, only ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ape House

By Sara Gruen

Driven by a plot that defies convention, Sara Gruen’s Ape House is captivating. Her follow-up to the 2007 bestseller Water for Elephants is another story about animals, though its strikingly realized human characters turn out ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Night on the Town

By Caroline Merola

Young Pickles McPhee, a giant blue dinosaur from the country, yearns to experience the big city. She gets the perfect chance to do just that when she stows away in the back of a car ... Read More »

November 15, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

Eastern Passage

By Farley Mowat

Farley Mowat has courted a great deal of controversy over the years. Famously depicted as a Pinocchio-nosed liar on a 1996 Saturday Night magazine cover, Mowat has never been able to shake the accusation that ... Read More »

November 15, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Bedtime Story

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A Night on the Town

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