The Secret Keeper by Genevieve Graham
Airplanes, Morse code, spy school, family tragedy, sisterhood, and true love — this book really does have it all.
Historical Fiction
The Black Crescent by Jane Johnson
The Black Crescent is the story of an unassuming man at a turbulent time in Morocco’s history.
Flicker by Lori Hahnel
Flicker by award-winning author Lori Hahnel is part of the University of Calgary Press’s Brave & Brilliant Series, 2023.
The House Filler by Tong Ge
Golden Phoenix’s voice is strong. It feels that she is right there, sitting with the reader, telling her story.
The Adversary by Michael Crummey
The Adversary by Michael Crummey is a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption.
Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook
Beginning in the year 1851, Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook is a meticulously researched work of historical fiction that brings into focus the Franklin Expedition, forbidden love, and some of the more garish aspects of Victorian England.
Home is the Lands and Rivers: A Girl Called Echo Omnibus by Katherena Vermette
This special omnibus edition of Katherena Vermette’s best-selling series features an all-new foreword by Chantal Fiola, a historical timeline, and an essay about Métis being and belonging by Brenda Macdougall.
The Jazz Club Spy by Roberta Rich
A riveting historical thriller about a Jewish cigarette girl in 1930s New York who finds the soldier who burned down her Russian village years earlier only to be swept up in a political conspiracy on the eve of World War II.
Siege of Your Heart: Review of Winter of Siege by Jan Degrass
As the officer turns to leave, I want to run after him—to give up my secret. But if my earlier words created so much consternation, then what would he say if I tell him the truth?
That Tanya can speak. I know this because I have heard her. When I visited her, she brought her lips close to my ear and said just two words: “Find Mama.”
A Real Somebody by Deryn Collier
From author Deryn Collier comes a smart, charming postwar historical novel based on the true story of an aspiring writer who dares to dream big.
Landscapes by Christine Lai
“One of the most beautifully chilling novels I’ve read this year was Landscapes by Christine Lai.”
Ruby Takes Chicago by Diann Floyd Boehm
Ruby Takes Chicago, is the sequel to Rise! A Girl’s Struggle for More. It’s now the 1920s, and a young Ruby Dinsmore leaves her hometown of Oilton, Oklahoma, and heads for Chicago to make her dreams come true.
The Marvels of Youth by Tim Bowling
Tim Bowling is the author of twenty-two works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. He is the recipient of numerous honours, including two Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund Awards, five Alberta Literary Awards, a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, two Writers’ Trust of Canada nominations, two Governor General’s Literary Award nominations and a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of his entire body of work.
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue by Christine Higdon
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is immersed in the complex political and social realities of the 1920s and, not-so ironically, of the 2020s: love, sex, desire, police corruption, abortion, addiction, and women wanting more.
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.
