Throwback: Horses All Over Hell by Ryan Blacketter
From the first story, I was captivated by the complex drama of the Shane family and their lives in rural Idaho during the early 90s.
contemporary fiction
Death and Other Inconveniences by Lesley Crewe
Margo and Dick were together for ten years, and she had no idea she would be facing widowhood at the “tender age of sixty-two”.
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit by Nadine Sander-Green
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit is a story centered around Millicent, a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse after graduating from college, where she focused more on poetry than journalism. Yet off to journalism she goes, to work at the Golden Nugget, a failing daily newspaper with three staff.
Dear Elsa by Marco Fraticelli
Two kids in grade 5 are paired as part of a pen pal program between schools in Toronto, Ontario and Boston, Massachusetts respectively.
Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmor
During the hottest summer on record, Bea’s dangerous new hobby puts everyone’s sense of security to the test.
Thank You For Loving Me by Nicole Bea
One year ago, Maggie Montgomery’s life crashed down around her. Her hope for a future and family died with her husband, lost at sea in a shipwreck.
Two for the Road by Chantel Guertin
A tender, funny and wise new novel about a romance bookshop owner who embarks on the adventure–or misadventure–of a lifetime in search of her own happily ever after.
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.
Lullaby: Revisiting Ru by Kim Thúy
Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow–of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters.
The Running Trees by Amber McMillan
A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations — through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation — to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.
