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Every House Is Haunted

By Ian Rogers

Short-story collections give fantasy and horror writers an opportunity to indulge imaginative premises. In his first collection, Ian Rogers displays his original vision via characters such as a professor who discovers a forest of perpetual ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Sussex Drive

By Linda Svendsen

The story of how Terry Fallis became an award-winning author is the stuff of frustrated writers’ wet dreams. After numerous rejections from publishers, he self-published his first novel, The Best Laid Plans, and was promptly ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Up and Down

By Terry Fallis

The story of how Terry Fallis became an award-winning author is the stuff of frustrated writers’ wet dreams. After numerous rejections from publishers, he self-published his first novel, The Best Laid Plans, and was promptly ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood and Salt

By Barbara Sapergia

The life-affirming power of storytelling is central to Barbara Sapergia’s fourth novel, a revealing saga based on historical events involving the internment of Ukrainian-Canadian immigrants during the First World War. The year is 1914 and, ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Harem

By Safia Fazlul

Farina is the deeply cynical and unhappy daughter of Bangladeshi parents. Living in a Muslim ghetto in a large Canadian city, she eschews university and instead gets a full-time deli job to fund her independence. ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Cosmo

By Spencer Gordon

The word “spiritual” appears in each of the first three stories in Spencer Gordon’s debut collection, an appropriate marker for a book that traffics so resolutely in the existential malaise of our pop-culture-saturated world. Gordon’s ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Painted Girls

By Cathy Marie Buchanan

Reminiscent of Tracy Chevalier’s novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, Cathy Marie Buchanan’s second novel tells the fascinating story of the young 19th-century Parisian ballerina who posed for Edgar Degas’ famous sculpture Little Dancer, Aged ... Read More »

December 17, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels