Jessica Grant – Come, Thou Tortoise

“I don’t believe I’ve ever read anything quite like Jessica Grant’s Come, Thou Tortoise … Audrey’s Brilliant. She’s hilarious. I could read about her all day … [it] defies a simplistic categorization. It is a somewhat sprawling, but well structured comic novel with many serious messages and much marvellous insight. It’s extraordinary, original and simultaneously both deep and lightheartedly charming. Come, Thou Tortoise had me from Word One. ” – Diane Baker Mason

Jeanette Lynes – Factory Voices

“First-time novelist Jeanette Lynes, best known for her award-winning poetry, has a great talent for bringing idiosyncratic characters to life while capturing wartime atmosphere, vernacular and anxiety … [she] turns the story of a true-life Canadian heroine into an entertaining novel … It’ll make you laugh and cry; it’s a fictional slice of Canadian history.” – Carla Lucchetta

Lisa Moore - February

“A tragedy at sea, a miracle on paper … Lisa Moore’s luminous novel centres on the Ocean Ranger disaster, but it makes you laugh as much as it makes you cry … Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us feel what they feel, which is, I think, the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human.” – Caroline Adderson

Linden MacIntyre – The Bishop’s Man

Michael Crummey – Galore