The story has many layers, including George’s depressed and injured father, a lovely friendship with an elderly man and a sweet brother with an adorable Victorian disposition
by : Laurie Burns
Fiction
The stories, real or imagined, are steeped in authenticity
PIAU: Journey to the Promised Land is not a book about victimization, rather it is an empowering book that explores decades of co-existence between the French, Acadians, British and Mi’kmaq
John Metcalf has sought out stories with “sparkling language [and] glorious rhetoric;” for the most part he’s succeeded
The Things Owen Wrote brings the country, its history, culture and people vividly to life
Anne has no desire to kill the dragon queen – the goal of her quest
Pop Quiz features a likeable protagonist who learns some valuable life lessons while also displaying tenacity and heart
Skeet Love tells the story of Shane, a conspiracy theorist and aspiring rapper; Nina, his girlfriend; and Brit, the couple’s lover. Craig Francis Power’s third novel is a drug and sex-fuelled critique of the world we think we know. Warning: this excerpt contains its fair share of profanity.
All authors have, in the words of Stewart, “been shaped in some part by Prince Edward Island,” and were given great leeway in defining “horror” on their own terms
In Uncertain Weights and Measures, Tatiana is a compelling protagonist, incisive in her analysis of the world around her, determined, even as a girl, to escape the conventional domestic dependency of the women she sees around her
Bala is ahead by a century in the cricket score of politically powerful contemporary fiction
Huebert experiments with how the loudest part of our interiority–the part that sounds like words and voice–is a crust on the yawning and often disturbing bog of memory
