Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
We follow Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man who he never knew and a white British mother, forever an outsider in his conservative village, who receives a scholarship to a local boarding school.
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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.
We Are Already Ghosts by Kit Dobson
There is a lyricism to Kit Dobson’s prose in We Are Already Ghosts, a way of revealing detail that is at once both elegant and calculated in its precision, distinguishing the novel by its tempered restraint.
Held by Anne Michaels
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault.
The Future by Catherine Leroux
Unlike some dystopian books, The Future is suffused with a sense of optimism despite the sometimes-dark components . . .
Everything Affects Everyone by Shawna Lemay
Everything Affects Everyone, is a novel about listening, about how women speak to one another, and about the power of the question.
Full Fadom Five by David C.C. Bourgeois
In Full Fadom Five the past is always present, and the characters always at the mercy of their legacies: those they carry forward, and those they try to leave behind.
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn’t know she exists.
Francie’s Got a Gun by Carrie Snyder
In Francie’s Got a Gun, award-winning writer Carrie Snyder assembles a chorus of unforgettable characters who are both well-intentioned and flawed.
Almost Visible by Michelle Sinclair
Michelle Sinclair’s first novel, Almost Visible, begins with an ending. Bárbara, in a prison cell in an undisclosed location, gives birth to the daughter she will never see again. In the pathos of this opening, we realize that this will be a story of realities, not easy solutions.
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination.
What Is Written on the Tongue by Anne Lazurko
Anne Lazurko’s “What is Written on the Tongue” is a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization.
Bystander by Mike Steeves
Unattached and in his mid-thirties, Peter Simons works in client services for a multi-national corporation and is regularly dispatched to far-flung exotic locations, staying in luxury hotels for lengthy periods. His latest assignment has kept him away from home for nine months, and, as Mike Steeves’ unsettling novel Bystander opens, Peter has returned to his shabby apartment with a mix of relief and bemusement.
The Music Game by Stéphanie Clermont
An ode to friendship and the ties that bind us together, Stéfanie Clermont’s award-winning The Music Game confronts the violence of the modern world and pays homage to those who work in the hope and faith that it can still be made a better place.
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.
