The City’s Gates

The City’s Gates introduces itself as a puzzle, with an “Apologia” letting us know that the book we are about to read is an “archaeology” consisting of documents found in the rubble of a building ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mount Royal

By Basil Papademos

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Montreal, 1989. For Johnny, a drug merchant and bisexual prostitute, the metropolis represents “one of the last big Western cities where you can ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Five Little Bitches

By Teresa McWhirter

When members of Wet Leather, the fictional band in Teresa McWhirter’s third novel for adults, are asked if they’re feminists, they answer, “Duh.” The only problem is it’s hard to believe them. The back cover ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Signs and Wonders

By Alix Ohlin

It’s always a good sign when a book that opens with an attempted suicide still manages to elicit a surprised chuckle from the reader by page eight. Such is the complex, delightful nature of Alix ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gethsemane Hall

By David Annandale

With Gethsemane Hall, Winnipeg writer David Annandale has created that rarest of books: a genuinely chilling horror novel. And a fresh take on the hoary old haunted house novel, no less. Following the death of ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Thirst

By Shree Ghatage

Fans of Shree Ghatage’s first novel, Brahma’s Dream, will appreciate her follow-up, which features the return of Vasanti, the aunt of the earlier novel’s 13-year-old protagonist. Thirst reveals the true circumstances behind the supposed death ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Valery the Great

By Elaine McCluskey

In her second collection of short stories, Elaine McCluskey has concocted a ragtag chorus of sometimes funny, often sad characters. The title story, about a child who has been exiled to the circus by the ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney

By Julie Devaney

Part memoir, part manifesto, Julie Devaney’s profoundly honest new book should be required reading for anyone who may ever have to visit a hospital – which means, in effect, everyone. The book details Devaney’s painful ... Read More »

August 13, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Blondes

By Emily Schultz

Unleash rabid blonde killers in an apocalyptic New York City, then add a pregnant woman trying to make her way outside city limits to inform her married lover he’s the father. The result is an ... Read More »

August 7, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stony River

By Tricia Dower

American small-town life in the 1950s wasn’t actually like Leave It to Beaver. In her ambitious first novel, Tricia Dower reveals the darker side of an era we tend to idealize. In the novel’s titular ... Read More »

August 2, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The City’s Gates

Mount Royal

Five Little Bitches

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Thirst

Valery the Great

★ My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney

The Blondes

Stony River

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