★ Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul

On a June morning in 1985, Hector Penniac, a 17-year-old boy from the local Micmac reserve, is killed beneath an errant load of pulp wood in the hold of the Dutch cargo ship Lutheran. It ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tide Road

By Valerie Compton

Tide Road is Valerie Compton’s first novel, but she has been writing short fiction for 20 years and has been shortlisted twice for the CBC Literary Awards. Her writing is confident, complex, and mature. Her ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew

By Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross’s 2010 story collection, Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, enjoyed an enthusiastic critical reception and won the ReLit Award for short fiction. The Toronto author follows this success with a first novel: a slim ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ By Love Possessed

By Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison’s first book of short stories provides a fine example of the poet and memoirist’s brand of simple storytelling mixed with Jamaican patois. The stories feature characters possessed as much by the spectre of ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Something About the Animal

By Cathy Stonehouse

Cathy Stonehouse’s debut collection contains one heartbreaking situation after another: sexual abuse, mental illness, loneliness, and death pervade the book. However, Stonehouse’s spare prose reveals the hidden layers of her vulnerable characters with great precision, ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Dogs at the Perimeter

By Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien’s 2006 debut novel, Certainty, about a Vancouver radio producer haunted by events in her Asian expat parents’ pasts, garnered high praise and marked her as a writer to watch. Her follow-up does not ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Anticipated Results

By Dennis E. Bolen

Vancouver writer Dennis E. Bolen’s seventh work of fiction, a collection of linked stories, shows a writer at the top of his game. The stories are so closely linked they read like a novel, making ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Monoceros

By Suzette Mayr

With relentless intensity, the opening of Suzette Mayr’s fourth novel traces the joys and despairs of 17-year-old Patrick Furey in the final days before his suicide. Although he dies in the first chapter, Furey remains ... Read More »

May 24, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Pretty

By Greg Kearney

A fraudulent Celtic seer instructs a moody artist considering gender transition to act upon the desire by age 36 – or risk being decapitated. This is a fairly typical storyline in Greg Kearney’s second collection, ... Read More »

May 16, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

By Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre was destined to become a revolutionary. Born a week after the death of Che Guevara, Aguirre grew up in a household obsessed with social upheaval: her mother and stepfather were part of the ... Read More »

May 13, 2011 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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