Helen Humphreys | The Lost Garden | Though The Lost Garden, the third novel by Kingston-based writer Helen Humphreys, is set in England in 1941, it takes place far from the bombs
Carol Guess | Switch | Carol Guess’s lyrical and accomplished second novel, set in small-town Indiana, is poised on the tension between the surface cheeriness of the waitres
Dionne Brand | In Another Place, Not Here | Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a
Judith Alguire | Iced | Women hockey players finally go pro in a league of their own! Iced is a fast-paced action romance with all the highs and lows of sports for profit. Al
Ann-Marie Macdonald | The Way the Crow Flies | To create a colourfully realised narrative seen through only youthful eyes is not an easy task, as the glut of badly written novels in this vein attes
Emma Donoghue | Hood | Pen and Cara meet in a convent school and become friends and then lovers, in a romance that is far from simple. Years later, when Cara dies in an acci
Fiona Cooper | Not the Swiss Family Robinson | ‘Monica Robinson, raised in the `middle of nowhere’, discovers early on that the American Dream isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Even Pop, who likes
Patricia Nell Warren | Wild Man | Antonio, a handsome and disillusioned bullfighter, secretly longs to release the wild bulls back to primordial freedom. Juan, a lusty, gentle peasant
Joanna Briscoe | Sleep With Me | Richard and Lelia’s child is conceived in a moment of giggling chaos as they dress for a Christmas party. They arrive rudely late and still glowing, a