Ring, André Alexis (Coach House Books) 🍁 Return of the Trickster, Eden Robinson (Knopf Canada) 🍁įollowing Jared Martin – a shape-shifting, dimension-trotting teenager – as he faces off against his ogress aunt and her pack of organ-gobbling coywolves, this final instalment of the Trickster trilogy raises the stakes and emulates the oral tradition of one-upmanship that shaped the stories the Haisla and Heiltsuk author was raised on. Based on true events that happened in her in-laws’ Italian village during the Second World War, this novel tackles sacrifice, guilt and love. To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife. Our Darkest Night, Jennifer Robson (HarperCollins Canada) 🍁 If the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning All The Light We Cannot See was a sort of love letter to museums, this new novel, nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence, is most definitely a love letter to libraries – and this planet. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (Scribner) An astrobiologist attempts to control his nine-year-old son’s behavioural issues using an experimental neurofeedback technique that will make the boy’s brain activity mimic that of his late mother. Bewilderment, Richard Powers (Random House Canada)Ĭlimate catastrophe simmers under the surface of Powers’s Booker Prize-shortlisted follow-up to The Overstory. This suspenseful novel from the three-time winner of the Governor-General’s Award follows a man who flees his small Prairie town after committing an unspeakable act of violence on the eve of the Second World War. August Into Winter, Guy Vanderhaeghe (McClelland & Stewart) 🍁 The story of Astra Brine, born and raised on a remote British Columbia commune, is told through the eyes of 10 people who’ve had intense encounters and relationships with her, revealing the different sides of one woman over a lifetime. Astra, Cedar Bowers (McClelland & Stewart) 🍁

This story is shaped by Awad’s own experience of chronic pain – as well as Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well and Macbeth, and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.

All’s Well, Mona Awad (Hamish Hamilton) 🍁Ī stage accident ended theatre professor Miranda Fitch’s acting career and left her addicted to painkillers – but when she acquires the ability to transfer her pain to others, she gleefully does so on those who doubted her injury.

The novel, longlisted for the Booker, follows Rose’s little sister, Clara, and Liam, the thirtysomething man from the city who moves in next door after inheriting the property. In a small Northern Ontario town in the early 1970s, rebellious 16-year-old Rose vanishes after a fight with her mother. A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson (Knopf Canada) 🍁

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