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Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmor

September 4, 2023August 28, 2023

During the hottest summer on record, Bea’s dangerous new hobby puts everyone’s sense of security to the test.

Categories Fiction Tags contemporary fiction, Domestic Life, fiction

Thank You For Loving Me by Nicole Bea

July 31, 2023

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.

Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Nova Scotia, Sue Slade Reviews Tags art, contemporary fiction, death, Depression, dogs, fiction, friendship, Grief, healing, loss, nova scotia, Nova Scotia author

Two for the Road by Chantel Guertin

June 19, 2023

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.

Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Sue Slade Reviews Tags contemporary fiction, fiction, holidays, romance

Radioland by Matt Cahill

October 16, 2022October 15, 2022

In Matt Cahill’s novel, Radioland, something evil is stalking the streets of Toronto and people are dying in grisly fashion.

Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction Tags contemporary fiction

Lullaby: Revisiting Ru by Kim Thúy

November 8, 2021

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.

Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction Tags contemporary fiction

The Running Trees by Amber McMillan

August 12, 2021

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.

Categories Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Short Fiction Tags contemporary fiction, short stories

Dig by Terry Doyle

May 22, 2019

Terry Doyle’s collection of twelve short stories has been eagerly anticipated since he won the Percy Janes First Novel Award in 2017 for Union, an as-yet unpublished manuscript.

Categories Fiction, Newfoundland & Labrador, Short Fiction, Short Stories, Summer Reads Tags Breakwater Books, contemporary fiction, Newfoundland, short stories

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