Skin by Catherine Bush
The stories in Skin range from epistolary to experimental, some set in the past, some in the present, providing a showcase for Bush’s talents.
Fiction
Who By Water by Greg Rhyno
The book takes place three years after Who By Fire, and we see Dame adjusting to motherhood, balancing it with her work and with tending to her father, Dodge, the famous athlete and detective now coping with aphasia.
The Immortal Woman by Su Chang
The Immortal Woman is a densely packed novel focusing on generational trauma, loss of identity (self-inflicted and societally), and mental health…
Wild Life by Amanda Leduc
The modern fairy tale is something that Leduc excels at, and Wild Life is no exception here.
The Maker of Spells by Jenny O’Kell
O’Kell has woven an intriguing world, with alliances between powers, a seemingly delicate system of magic…
Barbara by Joni Murphy
One of the privileges of getting to review for The Miramichi Reader is the opportunity to read some really very fascinating books. Obviously, since I’m pointing this out, Barbara by Joni Murphy is one of them.
Blessed Nowhere by Catherine Black
Black observes with the cool detachment that objectivity requires; detached but not indifferent.
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
We Could Be Rats also tackles so much else that is relevant to this moment.
Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food
Devouring Tomorrow is an eclectic collection of imagined food futures, speculative and dystopian, by some established and creative Canadian writers, edited by Jeff Dupuis and A.G. Pasquella.
The Queen by Nick Cutter
The prologue brings the reader immediately into a situation of nightmares, filling a mind with fantastic scenarios one would want to immediately pinch themselves awake from.
An Unbalanced Force by Valerie Sherrard
A fast-paced adventure that asks the hard questions of the responsibilities of sons and teenagers.
The Dead Shall Inherit by Raye Anderson
Once Elspeth arrives on Sulla, she encounters a colourful cast of characters who have as many opinions as secrets.
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
There’s not much more you need to do to sell me on a book than to tell me it’s about figure skating.
