★ Chez l’Arabe

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

The First Principles of Dreaming

By Beth Goobie

The members of Mary-Eve Hamilton’s family, participants in the Waiting for the Rapture End Times Tabernacle, take religious extremism to a whole new level. Mary-Eve’s mother is a famed prophet who regularly has visions and ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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

The Indifference League

By Richard Scarsbrook

On a July long weekend, eight teenagers, heady on alcohol and impending freedom, mockingly bestow nicknames upon each other, such as the Drifter, Miss Demeanour, SuperBarbie, and Psycho Superstar. They sarcastically decide to identify themselves ... 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

The Afterlife of Stars

By Joseph Kertes

In The Afterlife of Stars, Joseph Kertes, dean of Toronto’s Humber College School for Writers, introduces us to nine-year-old narrator Robert Beck. It’s Oct. 24, 1956, and the Hungarian Revolution is under way. In one ... 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

★ Between Clay and Dust

By Musharraf Ali Farooqi

As far as intimate epics – that beloved but apt oxymoron of reviewese – go, Between Clay and Dust is intimate enough to pass for a whisper in the middle of pillow talk between two ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

By Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter is the author of the international best-selling novel Annabel, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Orange Prize for ... Read More »

September 4, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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