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THE BEST OF CANADIAN FICTION
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ASCENSION
Steven Galloway In an unforgettable
opening scene, 66-year-old Salvo Ursari, an undisputed master of
the high wire, attempts the most difficult feat of his career: to
walk a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center
– and he fails. 2.
THE
FIEND IN HUMAN John MacLachlan Gray
This Dickensian tale features a debt-ridden and drug-addicted tabloid
journalist searching for the identity of a serial murderer, a fiend
in human form, whom he has named Chokee Bill. The novel is set in
Victorian London but shows that in many ways, especially when it
comes to sex and sensationalism, we haven’t changed at all.
3. FIDELITY
Michael Redhill This collection
of stories by the author of Martin Sloane looks boldly at the transgressions
of desire that seduce, and sometimes break, body and soul. 4.
BLACK
BIRD Michel Basilières
One of this year’s New Faces of Fiction, Michel Basilières
holds a fun mirror up to a defining moment in Canadian history and
reveals, among other things, a family having a very bad year. 5.
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SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI Gil Courtemanche Translated
by Patricia Claxton Gil Courtemanche, another New Face of Fiction,
confronts the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in 1994, with a story
of love and humanity at its limits. Previously published to critical
acclaim in Quebec, this prize-winning novel is now available to
English-language readers. 6.
THE
SKATING POND Deborah Joy Corey
When family tragedy strikes, 15-year-old Elizabeth is left to raise
herself. She becomes embroiled in an affair of such ferocity and
ardor that she remains haunted by her much older and sometimes cruel
lover, even after he has left her. 7.
THE
DELICATE STORM Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt, author of the bestselling and prize-winning Forty Words
for Sorrow, delivers a second thrilling mystery featuring Detective
John Cardinal . 8.
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SLEEPING BOY Barbara J. Stewart
When a high society murder-suicide leaves a young boy in a coma,
the lives of two women are turned upside-down by a series of ethical
paradoxes culminating in offers that only one of them can refuse
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DWELLING Susie Moloney Dreadful
things happen at 362 Belisle. The Dwelling is gripping, compelling
and unsettling – exactly what you want in a psychological
thriller, but not in a house.
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