The Mosaic

In her first YA novel, Archibald Lampman Award–winning poet Nina Berkhout builds on the promise of her adult fiction debut, The Gallery of Lost Species, trimming away the extraneous language in that novel to deliver ... Read More »

August 30, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

I Never Talk About It

By Véronique Côté and Steve Gagnon; Peter McCambridge et al. (trans.)

Spare a thought for the country’s translators. In a nation that is nominally multicultural and officially bilingual, the diligent wordsmiths who devote themselves to rendering foreign-language texts into the dominant English are rarely afforded the ... Read More »

August 29, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Memoir & Biography

We All Love the Beautiful Girls

By Joanne Proulx

How far must someone be pushed before resorting to violence? This is the question that hangs over Joanne Proulx’s sophomore novel, a book that ricochets between the brutally violent and endearingly tender. Michael and Mia, ... Read More »

August 28, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

House of Ash

By Hope Cook

No matter the era, life as a teenager is fraught with peril. Take Curtis and Mila, the protagonists of House of Ash, the powerful new YA fantasy from Edmonton writer Hope Cook. Curtis, in the ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Caterpillars Can’t Swim

By Liane Shaw

Liane Shaw, a former special-education resource teacher, has never shied away from tough topics. Her previous novels have tackled foster care (Fostergirls), physical and emotional limitations (The Color of Silence), and autism spectrum disorder (Don’t ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Appraisal

By Anna Porter

The plot of The Appraisal finds Helena Marsh, an art expert skilled at disguises and unusually adept at killing, trying to authenticate a Titian painting for an elderly art collector named Géza Márton, whose family ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Marrow Thieves

By Cherie Dimaline

In the latest YA novel by Métis writer and editor Cherie Dimaline, the world has been ravaged by global warming. Cities have crumbled from the coastlines, “breaking off like crust,” and hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Only Café

By Linden MacIntyre

It doesn’t take much to spot the connections between Linden MacIntyre’s intriguing – if somewhat untidy – fifth novel and the author’s own eventful life. A good chunk of the story takes place in the ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Cage

By Kevin Hardcastle

Kevin Hardcastle’s debut novel demonstrates that the violent depredations dramatized in the fiction of Cormac McCarthy are not confined to the Texas–Mexico border: rural Canada works just fine as a locale. In the Cage finds ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Melville

By Jean Giono; Paul Eprile (trans.)

A deeply peculiar homage to an American author by a French author writing a narrative that unfolds largely in the liminal landscape of England, Jean Giono’s Melville is a work of identification and projection, infatuation ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Mosaic

I Never Talk About It

We All Love the Beautiful Girls

House of Ash

Caterpillars Can’t Swim

The Appraisal

★ The Marrow Thieves

The Only Café

In the Cage

Melville

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