Random House Canada

Don Gillmor’s Mount Pleasant (2013)

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You can imagine Harry Salter, the main character in Don Gillmor's second novel, nodding along with Murray. Random House Canada, 2013 Murray is actually a character in an Alice Munro story, looking back at his much-changed life, but the story is familiar. "Does it deserve to be called

Don Gillmor’s Mount Pleasant (2013)Buried In Print2014-05-13T15:44:03-04:00

Linda Svendsen’s Sussex Drive (2012)

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“Number One, satire is not on. Critics love it, real people turn it off." That from the satirical novel Easy to Like*, which takes on Canadian media just as Linda Svendsen takes on Canadian politics in Sussex Drive. Of course, Edward Riche was satirizing the idea of satire

Linda Svendsen’s Sussex Drive (2012)Buried In Print2014-03-20T14:55:47-04:00

Jo Nesbø’s The Bat (1997; Trans. 2012)

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A cult figure. A "genuine anti-hero; an impossible character yet impossible not to like". Random House Canada, 2012Trans. Don Bartlett That's how the author's site describes Harry Hole, who is at the heart of Jo Nesbø's popular series. 'Hole' is pronounced Hoo-leh, by the way, although the Australians in

Jo Nesbø’s The Bat (1997; Trans. 2012)Buried In Print2014-03-20T14:47:08-04:00