★ The Luminaries

It’s easy to toss around words like “potential” and “promising” when a young author forges the kind of impression made by Eleanor Catton with her 2009 debut, The Rehearsal, a formally tricky but assured novel ... Read More »

September 9, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Orenda

By Joseph Boyden

Now that The Orenda has arrived, it’s hard not to think of Joseph Boyden’s first two novels (Three Day Road and its Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning follow-up, Through Black Spruce) as preludes to this magnificent literary ... Read More »

September 6, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Minister Without Portfolio

By Michael Winter

Henry Hayward is the eponymous official in Michael Winter’s latest novel, a brooding portrait of rural Newfoundland that, like the weather on the Rock, can turn menacing in a hurry. Henry, freshly heartbroken from a ... Read More »

September 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

MaddAddam

By Margaret Atwood

With MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood’s imposing speculative-fiction trilogy – spanning a decade that has seen at least a few of her predictions from Oryx & Crake and The Year of the Flood prove eerily prescient – ... Read More »

August 27, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Tap on the Window

By Linwood Barclay

Linwood Barclay’s 13th novel begins with one person dangling another over the river near Niagara Falls. Both are unidentified; who they are, and how they wound up in this situation, are only two of the ... Read More »

August 19, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved

By Joey Comeau

Horror is a tricky genre. Too often, authors working in this mode resort to shocks and unexpected twists for their scares. Truly effective horror, by contrast, is unsettling. It has a human element that relies ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Drowned Man

By David Whellams

One thing often overlooked in contemporary crime fiction is just how tedious police investigations actually are: real crimes are generally solved only after weeks or months of drudgery and boredom, not in the high-stakes, ticking-clock ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ballistics

By D.W. Wilson; D.W. Wilson

D.W. Wilson’s first book, 2011’s Once You Break a Knuckle, was a collection of brutal tales about guilt-ridden, impulsive fathers and sons with a taste for cheap beer and tendency toward messy violence, mostly set ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Restoration Artist

By Lewis DeSoto

Idealized and melancholic pastoral landscapes devoid of people. These are the paintings that Leo Millar, the protagonist of author Lewis DeSoto’s The Restoration Artist has made a good living from. Only after losing his beloved ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Emancipation Day

By Wayne Grady

Wayne Grady – former magazine writer and editor, author of 14 non-fiction titles, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning translator, and editor of numerous anthologies of both fiction and non-fiction – is not exactly new to the ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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