To the Spring, by Night

By Seyhmus Dagtekin; Donald Winkler, trans.

Seyhmus Dagtekin, a Kurdish poet and writer born in Turkey but living in Paris, gently unfolds a story that reads like a cross between a memoir and a sacred text. Told in the first person ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Woman Upstairs

By Claire Messud

Don’t be fooled by the opening chapters of Claire Messud’s new novel, in which Nora Eldridge blazes forth with furious intensity, her words spitting and sparking off the page as she describes who she is, ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Demonologist

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

The Lion Seeker

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

Nicolai’s Daughters

By Stella Leventoyannis Harvey

Stella Leventoyannis Harvey, a founding member of the Whistler Writers Group, discovered inspiration for her first novel while visiting a monument to the Nazi massacre of 696 Greek men and boys in the Achaean region ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love and the Mess We’re In

By Stephen Marche

Toronto author Stephen Marche’s yen for formal experimentation and elaborate wordplay are on florid display in his new novel. Behind the book’s typographical flourishes lies a compact consideration of love lost and found that might ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Thunder Road

By Chadwick Ginther

The debut novel from Winnipeg writer and bookseller (and frequent Q&Q reviewer) Chadwick Ginther starts with a bang – literally. A cataclysmic explosion at a facility in the Alberta oil sands leaves hundreds dead and ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Crimes of Hector Tomás

By Ian Colford

As a novelist, Ian Colford is a great short-story writer. The author of the 2008 story collection Evidence, which was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and won the Margaret and John Savage First Book ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The House on Sugarbush Road

By Meira Cook

Winnipeg poet Méira Cook’s debut novel focuses on South Africa’s volatile post-apartheid climate through the stories of two fatefully intertwined families: the wealthy but failing Du Plessis clan, represented by Dr. Benjamin Du Plessis, and ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Imperfections

By Bradley Somer

As they say in the fashion world, if you’ve got it, flaunt it. In this sharp, ribald, and surprisingly moving debut novel, Bradley Somer shows he has it and definitely flaunts it. Imperfections is a ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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To the Spring, by Night

The Woman Upstairs

The Demonologist

The Lion Seeker

Nicolai’s Daughters

Love and the Mess We’re In

Thunder Road

The Crimes of Hector Tomás

★ The House on Sugarbush Road

★ Imperfections

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