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Diana Stevan

Diana Stevan likes to joke she’s a Jill of all trades as she’s worked as a family therapist, teacher, librarian, model, actress and sports reporter for CBC television. She’s the author of five novels and a novelette.

Her novels cross genres: A Cry from the Deep, a romantic mystery/adventure; The Rubber Fence, women’s fiction; and Lukia’s Family Saga series, historical/biographical fiction. Based on her Ukrainian grandmother's family’s life in Russia and in Canada, the series is a trilogy covering the years 1915-1943: Sunflowers Under Fire, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, and Paper Roses on Stony Mountain.

When Diana isn’t writing, she loves to garden, travel, and read. With their two daughters grown, she lives with her husband Robert on Vancouver Island and West Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

September 26, 2024November 20, 2023 by Diana Stevan

A masterful coming-of-age novel and a gripping investigation into the life of a mysterious author who disappeared without a trace, by the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to be awarded France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt.

Categories Fiction, Mystery Tags fiction, literary mystery

Betting on You by Lynn Painter

August 4, 2024November 2, 2023 by Diana Stevan

When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers.

Categories Fiction, Young Adult Tags YA

The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner

October 23, 2023October 23, 2023 by Diana Stevan

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey.

Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction Tags Domestic Life, Family Life, fiction, relationships

Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter by Laura Goodman Salverson

May 29, 2024September 11, 2023 by Diana Stevan

Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter remains both a Canadian classic and an important social history of the experiences of women and immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.

Categories Best Books of 2023, Book Awards, Memoirs, Non-Fiction Tags Best Books 2023, History, Iceland, Winnipeg

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachel Lippincott

September 26, 2024July 17, 2023 by Diana Stevan

From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic romantic comedy that’s What If It’s Us meets Bridgerton.

Categories Fiction Tags coming of age, fiction, LGBTQ2S+, romantic comedy, time travel

Hang the Moon By Jeannette Walls

July 3, 2023 by Diana Stevan

From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.

Categories Fiction, Historical Fiction Tags Jeanette Walls, prohibition

Good Morning Poems By George Bowering

May 29, 2024March 13, 2023 by Diana Stevan

Canadian literary legend George Bowering lays bare his process as reader and lover of poetry in this curated collection of poems to be read in the morning.

Categories Best Books of 2023, Book Awards, Poetry Tags Best Books 2023, collection, Poetry

In a Land Without Dogs, Cats Learn to Bark by Jonathan Garfinkel

February 13, 2023 by Diana Stevan

Spanning generations, continents, and cultures, In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark is an electric tale about a nation trying to emerge from the shadow of the Soviet Union to embrace Western democracy

Categories Fiction Tags Political Fiction, Soviet Union

The Lost English Girl by Julia Kelly

January 9, 2023 by Diana Stevan

The acclaimed author of the “sweeping and beautifully written novel” (Woman’s World) The Light Over London weaves an epic saga of love, motherhood, and betrayal set against World War II.

Categories Fiction, Historical Fiction Tags children, historical fiction, London, Operation Pied Piper, WWII

The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms

May 24, 2024November 18, 2022 by Diana Stevan

The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back.

Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Giller 2023 Tags character-driven, fiction, Giller Longlisted

Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens

September 10, 2022 by Diana Stevan

An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn’t know she exists.

Categories Fiction, Historical Fiction Tags historical fiction, literary fiction

Dog Park by Sofi Oksanen, translated by Owen F. Witesman

June 2, 2022March 7, 2022 by Diana Stevan

Dog Park is a keenly observed, dark, and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered on a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body.

Categories Fiction Tags Finland, Ukraine

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