This is the House that Luke Built by Violet Browne
This Is the House That Luke Built deftly explores existential questions about what it means to be alive.
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The Broken Places by Frances Peck
Frances Peck’s debut novel examines the unpredictable ways in which disaster can shake up lives and test personal resilience.
Strange Loops by Liz Harmer
With the plot twists of a thriller, lean prose crackling with intensity, and big ideas explored alongside the messy truth of human relationships, Strange Loops simultaneously shocks and thrills the reader, all while asking vital questions about faith, love, and desire.
The Good Women of Safe Harbour by Bobbi French
The Good Women of Safe Harbour will tug on your heartstrings until you hear the sound of the Newfoundland coast and fiddle music in the distance.
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.
The Last Unsuitable Man by Louise Carson
The Last Unsuitable Man is a slow-burn thriller filled with twists that no one–least of all the victim–could see coming.
Goddess by Deborah Hemming
An entrancing novel about a wellness retreat on a remote Greek island hosted by a celebrity guru who is more than meets the eye.
Love Will Out: A Newfoundland Story by David Michael
St. John’s was a visceral shock to them. In a hansom cab, on their way …
Rosa’s Very Own Personal Revolution by Eric Dupont, translated by Peter McCambridge
Eric Dupont seems to have his own distinct writing style. Like Songs for the Cold of …
Sleepers and Ties by Gail Kirkpatrick
Grieving Museum curator Margaret returns to her childhood home to leave behind her sister Shirley’s ashes and attend the final reading of her will. Unbeknownst to Margaret, Shirley has left her eight million dollars and a letter asking Margaret to return to its former glory an abandoned railway line–a fanciful notion, everyone tells her, with no real legal binding.
This Unlikely Soil: Stories by Andrea Routley
This Unlikely Soil, the sophomore collection from Lambda Literary Award finalist Andrea Routley, is a quintet of linked novellas exploring the failures of kindness and connection among a rural west-coast community of queer women.
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.
River, Diverted by Jamie Tennant
Filled with pop culture references and a deep love of monster movies, River, Diverted is both a light-hearted and subtly serious read that will captivate readers.
Excerpt: See You Later Maybe Never by Lenore Rowntree
Intelligent and funny, timeless and tragic, See You Later Maybe Never gets to the heart of what it means to be seen as old in a strange new world.
Sombrio by Rhonda Waterfall
Vulnerable and hallucinatory, Rhonda Waterfall writes an alarming and vivid West Coast novel. Set in the rainforest on the outer coast of Vancouver Island, Sombrio takes us into the dark heart of lost childhoods.