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By Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper’s unabashedly commercial tendencies, already on display in novels such as The Killing Circle and The Guardians, stretch into new territory in The Demonologist, a thrilling, slapdash, and at times even melancholy mix of ... Read More »

March 4, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Kenneth Bonert

Kenneth Bonert’s ambitious debut novel arrives as this year’s only addition to Random House of Canada’s New Face of Fiction series, following a long list of career-launching titles that includes Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your ... Read More »

February 25, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Dayle Campbell Gaetz

What is it about girls and horses? Of all the animal-human relationships that appear in literature for young readers, this one is rivaled in its frequency perhaps only by boys and canines. B.C. author Dayle ... Read More »

February 21, 2013

By Ashley Little

Ashley Little’s debut young adult novel features a teenage protagonist dealing with a series of extraordinary, debilitating losses: of her twin sisters in a car accident, of her parents to depression, and, perhaps most traumatizing ... Read More »

February 21, 2013