The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, is a towering achievement.
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ANOMIA by Jade Wallace
After reviewing Jade Wallace’s poetry book Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There, I was hoping to see a sort of poetic influence reflected in this novel and it delivered. Wallace proves to be skilled in multiple genres and is a natural storyteller in all of them.
Yellow Barks Spider by Harman Burns
There’s palpable tension in the spare opening pages of Yellow Barks Spider, a debut novella by Vancouver-based Saskatchewan transplant Harman Burns. Even before the story begins, a dedication—“for ██████ wherever you are” —draws any curious eye. A technique Burns revisits later, redaction—with its there/not there visibility—prompts inevitable questions: what’s the masked name and the story behind …
A Way To Be Happy by Caroline Adderson
In her latest short story collection A Way To Be Happy, Caroline Adderson pursues the question of happiness – the fleeting, highly-theorized, and hotly pursued topic.
Finding Mr. Write by Kelley Armstrong
Finding Mr. Write is a rom-com written by someone who doesn’t write rom-coms. Kelley Armstrong writes fantasy, mystery, and horror. This is her first venture into the world of writing romantic comedy and I believe she has succeeded in not only writing an exceptional rom-com, but a fun one, too.
Too Close for Comfort (A Sgt. Windflower Mystery) by Mike Martin
A series of fires has lowered public confidence in the small Newfoundland town of Grand Bank where acting RCMP Inspector Winston Windflower is stationed. The most recent fire reveals the presence of a body in the kitchen—dead, not by smoke inhalation, but by multiple gunshot wounds. Thus the latest novel in the Mike Martin’s Sgt. …
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #38
Featuring Adelle Purdham, Sam Chaiton, Mandy Eve-Barnett, and Alice Fitzpatrick
A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s A Case of Matricide is a beautifully written noir novel.
Excerpt: The Dark King Swallows the World by Robert G Penner
Excerpted with permission from Radiant Press
The Treasure Hunter’s Club by Tom Ryan
A brilliant novel that ensured I would read anything Tom Ryan decides to write.
The Suspension Bridge by Anna Dowdall
Set in 1962 and 1963, this tale starts and ends on a bridge, literally and metaphorically.
Excerpt: The Suspension Bridge by Anna Dowdall
Excerpted with permission from Radiant Press Sister Harriet had doubts about what she was about to undertake, but the arrival of the fire department early the next day for a timely inspection—they were going to have a couple of overdue fire drills once the girls were back—seemed to her a propitious sign. Perpetua assembled a …
