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To the Forest
CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023
49th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023
When a family is forced to return to the mother’s childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ...
Sing, Nightingale
CBC BOOKS - CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023
Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revenge
When the curtain rises on Malmaison, it reveals a once-enchanting ...
The Second Substance
Squatters at a rural gas station try to find freedom and build something new on the ashes of our petrocivilization in this sensual novel.
A community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas station. ...
The Bear Woman
A writer’s obsession with the story of Marguerite de la Rocque leads her to question how women’s stories have been told, and how she will tell her own.
Blending autofiction and the essay, The Bear ...
The Agents
Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Squid Game, via The Office, in this boldly dystopian novel
The agents don’t know what they’re agents of, but they’re very busy agenting, which means watching endless data ...
And Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Away From Her meets Strangers on a Train in this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained Down
After And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is ...
Neighbourhood Watch
The lives of three families intersect in the hallways of an apartment block in a Montreal neighborhood.
Mélissa, Roxane, and Kevin have never had it easy. As their parents face their own struggles – ...
The Dark Library
Libraries are magical places. But what if they’re even more magical than we know?
In Cyrille Martinez’s library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. ...
Fauna
In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature?
A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic ...
Avant Desire
The definitive survey of an essential feminist poet.
In June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize been so richly deserved. ...