Michael Occhionero’s ALT•4•1 is an existentialist, dystopian science fiction novel that ponders the fate of humanity under corporate hegemony.
By Natalia Yanchak
Fiction
Jane Woods’ second novel shows her talent in creating complex and flawed characters.
By Billie Gagné-LeBel
In Andrée A. Gratton's debut novella, a young woman develops an unhealthy obsession with a would-be-friend.
By Yara El-Soueidi
David Homel’s admirable and absorbing memoir charts the map of his life’s journey.
By Gina Roitman
The third instalment in H. Nigel Thomas’ planned quartet on the Caribbean Canadian immigrant experience shows the rare ability to telescope a whole culture into an intimately scaled frame, deploying a dispassionate eye, pin-sharp dialogue, and deft touches of humour.
By Ian McGillis
Aimee Wall's We, Jane is a novel about abortion and self-discovery that shows how complicated relationships between women can be.
By Yara El-Soueidi
Celebrated crime writer and two-time Governor General’s Literary Award winner Andrée A. Michaud's Mirror Lake is at once funny and sad, poetic and gritty, meaningful and absurd.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Inspired by her experiences as a Big Sisters mentor to a girl in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette originally published her bleak and solemn first novel Neighbourhood Watch in 2010 under the title Je voudrais qu’on m’efface.
By JB Staniforth
Keith Henderson's Mont Babel is a mix of intellectual speculation, sci-fi themes, and family drama.
By Natalia Yanchak
Sam’s disappearance is the still point around which Sophie Bienvenu’s affecting short novel unspools, with Mathieu’s life unwinding in all its love and heartbreak from page to page.
By Elise Moser
This new edition offers English readers access to a work that manages to be both intimately familiar and utterly strange.
By Danielle Barkley
The first novel by Ioana Georgescu to be translated into English, Daughter of Here spans decades and continents with a graceful ease. Anchored in time by the events of Tahrir Square in 2011, the narration moves fluidly through time, while being propelled toward this revolutionary moment
By Bronwyn Averett