My Name Is a Knife

Alix Hawley’s My Name Is a Knife is the sequel to her acclaimed 2015 novel All True Not a Lie in It, which won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank ... Read More »

July 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Trickster Drift

By Eden Robinson

The new novel by B.C. author Eden Robinson is the second in a planned trilogy and the follow-up to Son of a Trickster, which landed on last year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist. Son of a ... Read More »

July 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Original Prin

By Randy Boyagoda

Any western novel that takes as its main character an academic named “Prin” will necessarily endure associations – intended or otherwise – with an earlier campus novel about an eponymous protagonist whose name chimes directly. ... Read More »

July 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

By Darrel J. McLeod

In his debut memoir, writer Darrel J. McLeod uses the imagery and tenets of Cree storytelling to make sense of a harrowing childhood. McLeod has written a powerful, unflinching work of non-fiction, one that isn’t ... Read More »

July 19, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Left

By Theanna Bischoff

The third novel by Theanna Bischoff – whose debut, Cleavage, was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean) – is a literary/thriller hybrid that takes place in ... Read More »

July 19, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Honeybee

By Isabelle Arsenault (ill.); Kirsten Hall

Environmentalism has long held a place in literature for children. It has been over 40 years since Dr. Seuss’s Lorax first spoke for the trees. New York–based writer Kirsten Hall (The Gold Leaf) carries on ... Read More »

July 19, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Refuge

By Merilyn Simonds

“My son is dead,” 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum says halfway through Merilyn Simonds’s artful and allusive new novel. It is a declaration, not a lamentation, one called forth by the unexpected and unwelcome appearance in her ... Read More »

July 16, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ruinous Sweep

By Tim Wynne-Jones

Was there a fight? A murder? An accident? As Donovan lies in a hospital bed, his girlfriend, Beatrice, tries to piece together what has happened to him. The Ruinous Sweep is a story with parallel ... Read More »

July 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Bonjour Girl

By Isabelle Laflèche

Isabelle Laflèche’s YA novel Bonjour Girl tells the story of Clementine Liu, newly arrived from Paris to New York City to begin her sophomore year at the elite Parsons School of Design. The novel embraces ... Read More »

July 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ French Exit

By Patrick deWitt

Do not be fooled by how disarmingly funny Patrick deWitt’s latest novel is. Though you will likely find yourself laughing out loud on numerous occasions while reading French Exit (assuming you enjoyed the author’s previous ... Read More »

July 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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