Fiction at a Glance

Ghost Pine: All Stories True

This collection of “true” accounts – many of which were originally published in the author’s long-running zine, ...

By Aparna Sanyal

Bird Eat Bird

On a sunny day in a park, with an eclectic and vocal crowd as witness, an unlikely event occurs: a pelican eats a ...

By Vanessa Bonneau

The World Above the Sky

Kent Stetson’s debut novel The World Above the Sky features Knights Templar fleeing threats from papal Rome ...

By Desirée Enderer

Such a Good Education

Such a Good Education is a work so fluid and compelling that it may be best consumed, like a fortifying ...

By Aparna Sanyal

Fences in Breathing

A nebulous writer named Anne is at the centre of this experimental novel about language and meaning. Taking refuge ...

By Aparna Sanyal

The Fixer-Upper

This slim volume chronicling a DYI disaster of epic proportions would be a great gift for a procrastinating ...

By Margaret Goldik

Daughter of Mine

The Montreal Review of Books receives many copies of self-published books as submissions for review. The ...

By Margaret Goldik

Wiser Than Humans

Originally written in Russian and published in Armenia in 1989, Wiser Than Humans is now being presented to ...

By Margaret Goldik

Century

Century is a re-issue of Smith's collection of six linked fictions, first published a quarter of a century ...

By Margaret Goldik

Marrying Hungary

Linda Leith's memoir is an honest look at the life of an outsider. Growing up in several countries, in a family ...

By Margaret Goldik