Magnified World

Toronto writer (and Q&Q reviewer) Grace O’Connell tackles serious subjects in her debut novel. Carol Pierce, who has been profoundly troubled for a long time, commits suicide by walking into the Don River with her ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Love Monster

By Missy Marston

In her debut novel, Ottawa author and poet Missy Marston is both fearless and quirky in her approach to some of the more difficult aspects of being human. Thirty-five-year-old Margaret H. Atwood sees no humour ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Against God

By Patrick Senécal; Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli, trans.

The first English-language translation of a work by best-selling Quebec author Patrick Senécal, Against God is a thrilling, unrelenting novella. Right from the get-go, a terrible accident throws our nameless protagonist into a state of ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tinsmith

By Tim Bowling

After finishing The Tinsmith, readers may be forgiven for concluding there’s no need for religions to construct versions of hell to keep the flock in line. That’s because Tim Bowling’s fourth novel grinds them through ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupré

By Sarah Kathryn York

First-time novelist Sarah Kathryn York chose an unusual format for her book about Edouard Beaupré, also known as the Willow Bunch Giant, a Canadian from a small community in Southern Saskatchewan who succumbed to tuberculosis ... Read More »

April 23, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Headmaster’s Wager

By Vincent Lam

Vincent Lam made a literary splash when his first work of fiction, the story collection Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Following his short biography of Tommy Douglas, Lam turns to ... Read More »

April 18, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Deadly Accusations

By Debra Purdy Kong

Debra Purdy Kong’s second Casey Holland mystery begins with two rather prosaic situations. Kids are regularly brawling on Vancouver’s Mainland Public Transit buses, and someone is hurling stones at bus windows. Casey, considered MPT’s best ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Carpenter

By Matt Lennox

From the early 20th century to the present, from George Orwell to Ian McEwan and, most recently, Alain de Botton, there has been a tradition of taking novelists to task for failing to represent the ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Westlake Soul

By Rio Youers

Rio Youers’ ambitious second novel is told from the perspective of Westlake Soul, a 23-year-old surfer who has been paralyzed after a brutal wipeout. He lives in a persistent vegetative state under the care of ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Daughters Who Walk this Path

By Yejide Kilanko

Ontario resident Yejide Kilanko’s first novel transports readers to her native Nigeria, telling a dark coming-of-age story that brings attention to the kind of violence many women suffer in silence. Daughters Who Walk this Path ... Read More »

April 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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