Ajar by Margo LaPierre
From the very first glance, the book captivates readers with its gorgeous, evocative cover, an image that feels like a visual invitation into the vivid and deeply intimate world within.
Sonia Saikaley
The African Samurai by Craig Shreve
Set in late 16th-century Africa, India, Portugal, and Japan, The African Samurai is a powerful historical novel based on the true story of Yasuke, Japan’s first foreign-born samurai and the only samurai of African descent.
Colonel Parkinson in Charge: A Wry Reflection on My Incurable Illness by François Gravel
A writer’s witty and surprisingly optimistic account of learning to live with Parkinson’s disease.
The Butcher of Park Ex and Other Semi-Truthful Tales by Andreas Kessaris
The Butcher of Park Ex is a humorous collection of personal stories inspired by the author’s life growing up in Montreal’s Park Extension neighbourhood, with Greek immigrant parents who never quite adapted to life in their new country.
You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-King
Love can be beautiful and disastrous at the same time. In Sheung-King’s debut novel You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked., he brilliantly evokes the complexities of an intense romantic relationship with the use of lyrical language and folk tales that draw the reader in.
Please Stand By by Carolyn Bennett
Carolyn Bennett’s debut novel Please Stand By is a fast-paced story about a woman trying to save the public television station in Edmonton where she freelances at. When a corporate man from Toronto is recruited to make changes to the Alberta Broadcasting System (ABS) and threatens the protagonist Suzanne Foley’s livelihood and those of her …
Look After Her by Hannah Brown
Upon the death of their art-loving parents, thirteen and fourteen year old Jewish sisters are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister’s forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna.
