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Fiction: Novels

Open Secret

By Deryn Collier

With her second novel, Deryn Collier returns to the fictional B.C. town of Kootenay Landing and to the character of former Canadian Forces commander Bern Fortin, who now works as the town coroner. Collier continues ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bee Summers

By Melanie Dugan

This coming-of-age novel by Melanie Dugan follows 11-year-old Melissa, abandoned by her mother and left in the care of her father, an emotionally distant handyman and beekeeper who has little choice but to take her ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Grist

By Linda Little

Like Nova Scotia author Linda Little’s previous novels, Strong Hollow and Scotch River (awarded top prize at the 2007 Atlantic Book Awards), her third outing is set in the Maritimes region she knows and obviously ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No Relation

By Terry Fallis

Terry Fallis constructs each of his comedic novels in a similar manner. The hero is invariably an underappreciated male spin-meister employed in politics, advertising, or public relations. The spin-meister – Fallis is one himself, when ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Lobster Kings

By Alexi Zentner

The multi-generational tragedies and mythical creatures that pervaded Alexi Zentner’s lauded first novel, Touch, move from the woods of the West Coast to the waters of the East Coast in his follow-up, about a legendary ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Emberton

By Peter Norman

With his debut novel, Toronto poet Peter Norman – whose first collection, At the Gates of the Theme Park, was shortlisted for the 2011 Trillium Book Award for poetry – delivers a solid, if flawed, ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

New Tab

By Guillaume Morissette

Guillaume Morissette’s first novel recounts a year in the life of 26-year-old video-game designer and part-time creative-writing student Thomas, who attempts to navigate the ambiguous social waters of Montreal circa 2010. Told in stark prose ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels