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Really Dead

By J.E. Forman

Really Dead begins with Pam, a reality show production assistant, finding a severed foot on a Caribbean beach. The ankle shows a tattoo resembling one belonging to another PA, Kate Bond, who has disappeared from ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love at Last Sight

By Thea Bowering

Love at Last Sight goes against the grain of most story collections these days, the majority of which are quippy and concise plot-driven adventures in minimalism. Bowering’s debut collection, which embraces a rich maximalism, is ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

PostApoc

By Liz Worth

Liz Worth’s debut novel is grim, dark, and unflinching. As the sole survivor of a mass suicide pact, Ang is barely hanging on. Her close companions, all of whom were part of an underground music ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Independence

By Cecil Foster

Cecil Foster was 12 years old in 1966 when Barbados gained independence from Britain. Foster’s first novel in almost a dozen years delves into the formative period of the newly liberated nation, as seen through ... Read More »

February 10, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Helium

By Jaspreet Singh

Helium is a haunted novel. Virtually every page in this masterful tale by Toronto’s Jaspreet Singh (Chef) features a visitation from the dead or a trip to an otherworldly past. Literary figures as far apart ... Read More »

February 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Bear

By Claire Cameron

With the publication of such Modernist works as The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner honed a stream-of-consciousness technique that immersed readers in the thoughts and experiences of characters too ... Read More »

February 4, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels