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By Audrey Thomas

Four productive decades and 17 books of fiction have secured Audrey Thomas a place in our canon, duly confirmed in 2003 by a George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2008 by her investiture into ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Strip

By Andrew Binks

The toned body of John Rottam pirouettes through Andrew Binks’s second novel. The young dancer traverses the country, migrating from ballet to burlesque, while navigating gay romantic life at the advent of the AIDS crisis. ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A

By André Alexis

Novelist and playwright André Alexis caused a considerable stir in 2010 with an essay in his collection Beauty & Sadness that tore the skin off Canadian book reviewing and the state of literary culture in ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Troop

By Nick Cutter

Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Craig Davidson couldn’t have come up with a less inspired pseudonym than Nick Cutter for this pure-genre outing, but that’s the only knock against an otherwise outstanding tale of terror, full ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels