May 2008
This is Louise Penny's third murder mystery featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, everybody's favourite Sûreté ...
May 2008
Michael Blair has written a meaty and accomplished novel in The Dells, his fourth mystery and his second in ...
May 2008
Days of Sand might be called a memoir. It does touch on major events from author Hélène Dorion's childhood, ...
May 2008
In The Postman's Round, a young mailman named Bilodo develops a fascination with Japanese-style poetry, an ...
May 2008
Villaverde's collection begins well, with an eponymous short story that immediately draws the reader in through ...
May 2008
Seemingly unrelated events are the backdrop to Mary Soderstrom's The Violets of Usambara: grocery shopping, ...
May 2008
Nicolas Dickner's fine debut novel is the improbable tale of three young people who find themselves in Montreal at ...
May 2008
Stopping over on a break from a recent drive through the Eastern Townships, I was curiously unable to find a ...
November 2007
In her new novel, the last in a trilogy set on an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Marie-Claire Blais poses a ...
November 2007
In Peter Dubé's collection of "fictions," the reader enters into a strange world of the author's creation, one ...
November 2007
The book's title may be worrisome at first glance: is this going to be a collection of "slacker" stories? The ...
November 2007
The Hole Show is Maya Merrick's second novel and is a toothsome trawl through Montreal vérité. There are ...