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Staff Faves: Erasing Memory
Every now and then a novel comes along that simultaneously fulfills the familiar demands of the mystery genre, while adding just enough new flavour to make the experience of reading both comfortable...
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Staff Faves: The Book of Fame
I signed on with the Lloyd Jones fan club after reading his breath-stealing novel Mister Pip. I’ve waded in his writing ever since, more or less to the same level of enjoyment. Until I read The Book of...
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Staff Faves: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
I heard about this book from colleagues long before it was published. They talked about the power of the story and how well it was written. This book has now struck a chord with readers across North...
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Staff Faves: In One Person
I’ll admit it: I’m a huge John Irving fan (you might have previously read my “Staff Fave” for A Son of the Circus). And I was thrilled to be one of the first internal readers of his newest novel, In...
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Staff Faves: Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar
Imagine: You have wronged someone (it does not matter who or why) and have neither the time, words, nor inclination to apologize for yourself. Enter, four bright but drifting friends, plagued by...
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Staff Faves: Cloud Atlas
History. Adventure. Science fiction. Suspense. Musical composition. Comet-shaped birthmarks. Rebellion. Nuclear power. Vanity publishing. David Mitchell masterfully weaves together a novel that defies...
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Staff Faves: The Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd
I do love a good historical mystery – ones that give me insight into a time and place gone by. I especially like the early novels of David Liss, particularily A Conspiracy of Paper, and Lynn...
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Staff Faves: Defending Jacob
I love a good thriller. Always have. But I’ll admit that I’m a bit picky. I don’t love all of them, and if I’ve read it before, I don’t want to read it again. When I think of what makes a good...
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Staff Faves: Antigonick
As a voracious reader and English Lit student I spent my first few years of university harbouring a secret indifference to classical literature. Enter Anne Carson and Autobiography of Red, the book...
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Staff Faves: A Game of Thrones
I’m always hesitant to recommend a fantasy novel, because the fantasy genre is typically polarizing; either you can’t get enough of it, or you think it’s all Tolkein-derivative drivel. And I have to...
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