What happened to Mme Ménard, and where is her cat? Who started the fire that engulfed the townhouses, and whose body was found in the ashes?
By Sharon Morrisey
Fiction
Carmela Circelli’s debut novel is a psychological, philosophical, and often poetic page-turner thrumming with musical mentions.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Clara Dupuis-Morency's novel is a complex weaving of narrative and thematic layers.
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Sarah Gilbert considers the consequences of gentrification, and how the places we inhabit shape our relationships.
By Ariella Kharasch
Sean Michaels' new novel is about collaboration and exchange – big tech with the arts, author with reader.
By Emily Mernin
Scott Randall's debut highlights the absurdities of the human condition through a day in fifth grader Darby Tamm's life.
By Nadia Trudel
Eva Crocker's latest novel explores moving to Montreal from a small city as a queer person in search of more.
By Alex Trnka
Casey Bell's book takes heavy themes and wraps them up in fantastical settings, neatly tangling them together through delicate, beautiful prose.
By Roxane Hudon
Luke Francis Beirne's novel is a romance and espionage thriller set against the layered geopolitical context of Ireland in the 1970s.
By Sharon Morrisey
Wayne Ng's novel teaches us that family certainly provides us with the fuel for our own growth, although this sometimes means being far from their reach.
By Phoebe Yì Lǐng
Caroline Dawson digs up and grieves such disowned fragments of self in her gripping autobiographical novel.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Marie-Claire Blais' novel embodies the joy and slipperiness of existence – it reminds us that life is a continuous yet rhythmic flow.
By Emma Dollery