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Torp

By Michael Mirolla

In his new novel, writer and publisher Michael Mirolla uses the 1970 FLQ crisis as the backdrop for a story about two young people caught up in a relationship they cannot control – one of ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death Valley

By Susan Perly

Susan Perly’s first novel since 2001’s Love Street, Death Valley is a postmodern escapade through America’s nuclear playground. The setting is 2006, in the midst of George W. Bush’s divisive war on terror. The novel ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hamburger

By Daniel Perry

The stories in Daniel Perry’s debut collection are arranged in three sections – Coarse, Medium, and Fine – corresponding to three textures of hamburger meat. This provides an obvious link to the book’s title (which ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Perfect World

By Ian Colford

Halifax writer Ian Colford is very good at crafting scenes of violence. His previous novel, The Crimes of Hector Tomás, contains a sequence in which the central character is strapped to a metal bedframe and ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Smoke

By Dan Vyleta

Contemporary novels heralded as “Dickensian” are usually so only superficially: they’re just long books with multiple plots and a sprinkling of grotesque or quirky characters. Only rarely do they capture the other qualities that earned ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels