Africville

New York City writer Jeffrey Colvin’s debut novel is a multi-generational tale based on the eponymous Black community north of Halifax, which was settled by Jamaican prisoners the British expelled in 1788. These exiles were ... Read More »

January 13, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Symphony No. 3

By Chris Eaton

The latest from New Brunswick novelist and musician Chris Eaton is a mythopoeic biography of Camille Saint-Saëns as relayed by the Romantic composer’s fictional twin, a figure we quickly come to regard not as a ... Read More »

January 6, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Lost Sister

By Andrea Gunraj

Andrea Gunraj’s much-awaited sophomore novel is a haunting, consistently entrancing read. It tells the tale of two pairs of sisters: Alisha and Diana, growing up in the Jane and Finch area of Toronto, and Paula ... Read More »

December 19, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Difference

By Marina Endicott

What constitutes a home? In her latest novel, Marina Endicott explores this fundamental question. For 12-year-old Kay, the closest thing to a home is the Morning Light, a sailing ship. But it’s 1912, and the ... Read More »

December 16, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

By Hazel Jane Plante

The debut novel from Hazel Jane Plante is not easily categorizable. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) is an unapologetically original amalgamation of many disparate elements: a rough draft of an encyclopedia cataloguing a fictional television ... Read More »

December 2, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Blue Bear Woman

By Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau; Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli (trans.)

There is a sense of calm as Victoria, a middle-aged, mixed-race Cree woman, sets off on a road trip to James Bay with her settler husband, Daniel. It is a calm derived from satiety and ... Read More »

November 25, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Desirable Sister

By Taslim Burkowicz

What happens when sibling rivalry is based on the colour of one’s skin? This is the premise of Surrey, B.C., author Taslim Burkowicz’s second novel, a story of two sisters, Gia and Serena Pirji, whose ... Read More »

November 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Exile Blues

By Douglas Gary Freeman

Douglas Gary Freeman’s Exile Blues incorporates historical events and settings to create an engaging and multi-faceted narrative of survival and strength. We travel with the main character, Preston “Prez” Downs Jr., through his childhood to ... Read More »

October 31, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Red Chesterfield

By Wayne Arthurson

An abandoned sofa and a grisly find set the action in motion in the latest work from Edmonton author Wayne Arthurson. In a sharp deconstruction of the conventions of the mystery genre, Arthurson uses prose ... Read More »

October 31, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Against the Wind

By Jim Tilley

Imagine the comedic possibilities if Oscar Wilde had penned a play about a foursome involving two women both romantically involved with the same two men. Such a play would have been a laugh a minute. ... Read More »

October 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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