Yara El-Ghadban's fictional take on the life of Ariel Sharon is anything but a typical historical novel.
By Jeff Miller
Fiction
Montreal-based author Sylvain Neuvel talks about his historical sci-fi spy thriller, the first book in his new trilogy.
By Natalia Yanchak
With their fiction debut, Helen Chau Bradley spills their guts in ten intimate, queer stories.
By Billie Gagné-LeBel
Anna Dowdall's Montreal mystery is one of those guilty pleasures you sink into with abandon.
By Sharon Morrisey
The time machine effect in Nick Fonda’s new historical crime novel Murder on the Orford Mountain Railway is truly an impressive one.
By Sharon Morrisey
"The Sleep of Apples is a love song to my home city: Montreal,” writes Ami Sands Brodoff in her acknowledgements. And what a potent number she delivers in this emotionally charged collection of linked short fiction!
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Cree-Métis artist, writer, and poet Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau first published The Lover, the Lake in French, under the title L’amant du lac (Éditions Mémoire d’encrier, 2009).
By Linda Morra
Jocelyne Saucier’s newest novel is part mystery, part love letter to remote Canadian towns, and part meditation on writing and storytelling.
By Danielle Barkley
What happens after the dust has settled? How do you rebuild a life that’s been destroyed? These are the questions that author Marie-Renée Lavoie explores, with fierce humour and compassion, in the sequel to her best-selling novel, Autopsy of a Boring Wife.
By Megan Callahan
Marie-Claire Blais’ sprawling tour de force is a vast narrative addressing the most pressing social issues of our time.
By Alex Trnka
Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition is a beautiful and mystifying collection of stories that arrives at a time when it’s much needed.
By Nour Abi-Nakhoul
Richard King's Banking on Life definitely belongs in the long line of Montreal detective novels, with its polished writing and rapid-paced action, all taking place in the well-known nooks and crannies of today’s city.
By Sharon Morrisey