Acclaimed Atlantic Canadian authors and the books they can’t wait for 

Amy Spurway

Amy Spurway is a Dartmouth-based writer and author. Her award-winning debut novel, Crow, is published by Goose Lane Editions.

Keep by JennyHaysom
House of Anansi

I’m looking forward to reading Jenny Haysom’s Keep (Jenny is England-born and NS-raised) published by Anansi. I’m drawn to stories that explore our relationships with ourselves and each other, contemplate what we hold on to and why, and dig into the messiness of life that simply can’t be contained no matter how hard we try. Jenny Haysom’s Keep looks like it will be chock full of these very themes!

Shalan Joudrey

shalan joudry is a Mi’kmaw poet, storyteller, podcast producer, playwright, actor and singer. She is also an ecologist and cultural interpreter.

Bestselling author Amanda Peters’ debut short story collection
Waiting for the Long Night Moon .

Lesley Crewe

Lesley Crewe is the author of several novels, including Recipe for a Good Life, Spoon Stealer, Kin, Relative Happiness, and Death and Other Inconveniences, her newest national best seller.

She is Hope for Wildlife by Wanda Baxter, illustrated by Leah Boudreau
Nimbus Publishing

Hope Swinimer is an inspiration!  She loves wildlife and helps the helpless. An admirable Maritimer I respect. I’ve read the digital copy and can’t wait for the real thing to read to my granddaughter’s. I want to pass on my love of animals to them!

James Mullinger

James Mullinger is an award-winning British comedian and the co-founder of [Edit] Magazine. His book. Brit Happens: Living The Canadian Dream by James Mullinger, published by Goose Lane Editions, is a national bestseller.

Felt by Mark Blagrave
Cormorant Books

Blagrave is a uniquely skilled writer and his novels are as globally admired as they are moving and masterful. I am phenomenally excited about his latest novel Felt because it happens to be set in my favourite place in the world—Saint Andrews, New Brunswick. It is also bursting with themes that are very close to me – alzheimer’s, aging relatives, immigration, war and home. I have been told it might just be his masterpiece.

Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau is the Halifax-based author of eleven books.

We’re Not Rich by Sue Murtagh
Nimbus Publishing

The Atlantic books I’m looking forward to this fall are Sue Murtagh’s short story collection We’re Not Rich and Lori McKay’s Searching for Mayflowers. As well, I’m thrilled at the release of Susan LeBlanc’s amazing novel The Nowhere Places, which I was lucky enough to read and blurb. All these are Nimbus publications. No bias at all. So many great books!

Sharon Bala

Sharon Bala is the author of The Boat People.

Invisible Prisons by Lisa Moore
Knopf Canada

I’ve been eagerly anticipating Invisible Prisons for months. With every book, Lisa Moore seems to reinvent fiction so I’m especially eager to see how her visceral prose style melds with Jack Whalen’s courageous true story. Invisible Prisons is sure to be a work of non-fiction, activism and beauty.

Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore is theauthor of several bestselling novels. She has won the Commonwealth Fiction Prize, CBC’s Canada Reads, and the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award and received nominations for the Man Booker Prize, the Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

Vigil by Susie Taylor
Breakwater Books

Vigil by Susie Taylor is a collection of linked stories set in a drug-riddled Newfoundland outport where opportunities are thin on the ground and characters are hammered to the page. That’s the way Taylor writes—funny and wise, and the writing, exquisite.