Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene by Jaspreet Singh
In his playful yet deeply serious third novel Jaspreet Singh links a fossil fraud in India, an ice core archive in Canada, and a climate change laboratory in Germany.
Contemporary Fiction
Welcome to the Weird America by A.G. Pasquella
A.G. Pasquella’s Welcome to the Weird America brings together three of his brilliant, fabulist novellas, each of which is filled with strange language and extraordinary surprises. Plus, an interview with the author.
The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms
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.
The Ice Widow by Anne M. Smith-Nochasak
The Ice Widow is a different kind of love story, yet one more common than we may know.
Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann
By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
King of Hope by Kim Conklin
King of Hope brings Southern Ontario Gothic with an environmental twist, through the lens of a small town that’s been facing radical environmental uncertainty for generations.
Radioland by Matt Cahill
In Matt Cahill’s novel, Radioland, something evil is stalking the streets of Toronto and people are dying in grisly fashion.
Excerpt: Hold on please, Emily by Doris Siu
An excerpt from Doris Siu’s novel, Hold On Please, Emily.
Noisemaker by Andy Tolson
Part ghost story, part fictionalized memoir, Noisemaker is a love letter to when thrashing guitars, pounding drums, and the three minute pop song ruled the world.
A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand
A story of identity, connection and forgiveness, A Convergence of Solitudes shares the lives of two families across Partition of India, Operation Babylift in Vietnam, and two referendums in Quebec.
The Sisters Sputnik: A Novel, by Terri Favro
Ingenious, smoothly written, and funny, at times bitingly so, Terri Favro’s The Sisters Sputnik is well worth a read.
Matters of Time: An Outliers Anthology
Five years after their initial meeting at a Lindsay coffee shop, a writing group known as The Outliers has released an anthology of their work, Matters of Time. This mixed-genre collection draws on an array of fantastically complex characters, drops them in strange and unusual places, and gives them free rein to explore Time.
The Swells by Will Aitken
In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
To See Out the Night by David Clerson
Visceral, surprising, and surreal, these twelve stories from David Clerson move from the charged darkness of the woods to the urban underground, while characters set a course to see out the night.
One Who Has Been Here Before by Becca Babcock
Contemporary Atlantic gothic fiction inspired by Nova Scotia’s notorious Goler clan.