post WWII The Miramichi Reader

Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner

July 2, 2022June 13, 2022 by Claire Bennet

Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world in Bloomsbury Girls.

Foxhunt by Luke Francis Beirne

April 11, 2022 by James M. Fisher

Foxhunt is an atmospheric exploration of passivity, loyalty, and literature in times of political upheaval. Firmly entrenched in the literary milieu of the era, it carries the reader through shell-shocked streets with suspense and intrigue.

Dancing with Chairs in the Music House by Caro Soles

July 6, 2021May 10, 2021 by Alison Manley

Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of 519 Jarvis Street in Toronto, a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house owned by a reclusive pianist, she learns a lot more.

The Little Fox of Mayerville by Éric Mathieu, Translated by Peter McCambridge

June 18, 2020August 20, 2019 by James M. Fisher

Éric Mathieu's The Little Fox of Mayerville (translated by Peter McCambridge) represents a bit of a departure from recent QC Fiction offerings such as Prague and In the End They Told Them all to Get Lost, which while being ingenious works of fiction, may not have been to everyone's taste like the Giller-nominated Songs for the Cold of Heart.