Fiction

The Cruellest Month

This is Louise Penny's third murder mystery featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, everybody's favourite Sûreté ...

By Elspeth Redmond

The Dells

Michael Blair has written a meaty and accomplished novel in The Dells, his fourth mystery and his second in ...

By Elspeth Redmond

Days of Sand

Days of Sand might be called a memoir. It does touch on major events from author Hélène Dorion's childhood, ...

By Anne Chudobiak

The Postman’s Round

In The Postman's Round, a young mailman named Bilodo develops a fascination with Japanese-style poetry, an ...

By Anne Chudobiak

Dance of the Suitors

Villaverde's collection begins well, with an eponymous short story that immediately draws the reader in through ...

By Adriana Palanca

The Violets of Usambara

Seemingly unrelated events are the backdrop to Mary Soderstrom's The Violets of Usambara: grocery shopping, ...

By Danielle LaFrance

Nikolski

Nicolas Dickner's fine debut novel is the improbable tale of three young people who find themselves in Montreal at ...

By Saleema Nawaz

Seven Openings of the Head

Stopping over on a break from a recent drive through the Eastern Townships, I was curiously unable to find a ...

By Robert Kotyk

At the Bottom of the Sky

In Peter Dubé's collection of "fictions," the reader enters into a strange world of the author's creation, one ...

By Jeffrey Mackie

A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine

The book's title may be worrisome at first glance: is this going to be a collection of "slacker" stories? The ...

By Jeffrey Mackie

The Hole Show

The Hole Show is Maya Merrick's second novel and is a toothsome trawl through Montreal vérité. There are ...

By Neil Scotten