The Lola Quartet

The third novel from B.C.-born Emily St. John Mandel, about the way the panicked actions of one terrified young girl resonate a decade later, has aspects of family drama and literary noir. Anna Montgomery, a ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Motherless Child

By Marianne Langner Zeitlin

Motherless Child is the kind of novel that requires an early commitment from readers. Since the plot relies so heavily on dredging up the past, there’s a lot of set-up involved: seemingly disconnected details of ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Bellwether Revivals

By Benjamin Wood

This first novel by Benjamin Wood, former fiction editor of the journal Prism International, is accomplished, atmospheric, and suspenseful – once it builds up some steam, that is. Oscar is a lonely, unfulfilled, working-class personal-care ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Rest Is Silence

By Scott Fotheringham

The Rest Is Silence is a curious hybrid of a novel, a dual-track eco-fantasy with its narrative feet planted in two very different worlds. The main story deals with a young man who has gone ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

One Good Hustle

By Billie Livingston

In her third novel, Vancouver writer Billie Livingston vividly recreates the world of mid-1980s Burnaby, B.C. One Good Hustle follows Samantha (Sammie) Bell, the sharp-tongued 16-year-old daughter of a couple of con artists, through a ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Cloaca

By Andrew Hood

Zoologically speaking, the cloaca is the undifferentiated posterior orifice in birds, reptiles, and amphibians. It serves urinary, digestive, and reproductive functions carried out by specialized structures in other species. Thematically, The Cloaca is the perfect ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Come Back

By Sky Gilbert

The work of Sky Gilbert has long exemplified the concept of novel as autobiography. But in Come Back, the queer author and playwright’s sixth novel, this idea takes its most explicit form yet. In accessible ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gay Dwarves of America

By Anne Fleming

Traditional narrative strategies and formal experimentation, as well as fiction and autobiography, blend comfortably in Anne Fleming’s latest collection of short stories, the delightfully titled Gay Dwarves of America. Fleming, a University of British Columbia ... Read More »

June 25, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Above All Things

By Tanis Rideout

Seldom is a first novel as polished as Tanis Rideout’s Above All Things, about George Mallory’s final attempt, in 1924, to climb Mount Everest. Rideout blends fact and fiction in her narrative, creating insight into ... Read More »

June 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Everybody Has Everything

By Katrina Onstad

Six years after her successful debut novel, How Happy to Be, Toronto journalist Katrina Onstad returns with the highly anticipated follow-up. Professional couple Ana and James are child-free, though not for lack of trying. Years ... Read More »

June 11, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Lola Quartet

Motherless Child

The Bellwether Revivals

The Rest Is Silence

One Good Hustle

The Cloaca

Come Back

Gay Dwarves of America

★ Above All Things

Everybody Has Everything

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