Malarky
10 best books like Malarky (Anakana Schofield): I Am a Truck, Bang Crunch, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night, The World, The Death Of Donna Whalen, The Dilettantes, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother, A Matter of Life and Death Or Something, Sitting Practice, Sixty: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?
| Author | Michelle Winters |
| ISBN | 1926743784 |
A tender but lively debut novel about a man, a woman, and their Chevrolet dealer.
Agathe and Rejean Lapointe are about to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary when Rejean's beloved Chevy Silverado is found abandoned at the side of the road - with no trace of Rejean. Agathe handles...
| Author | Neil Smith |
| ISBN | 0307386104 |
In Neil Smith’s nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome,...
A blackly comic and heart-rending odyssey by the inimitable author of Down to the Dirt
Scrappy tough guy and three-time loser Johnny Keough is going a little stir-crazy awaiting trial for an alleged assault charge involving his girlfriend, Madonna, and a teapot. Facing three to five years...
| Author | Bill Gaston |
| ISBN | 0670065838 |
Weaving together five heartbreaking stories, Bill Gaston transforms the cruelty of life into something not only beautiful but heartwarming. A recently divorced, early retiree accidentally burns down his house on the day he pays off the mortgage, only to discover that for the first time in his life...
The Death Of Donna Whalen
When Donna Whalen is stabbed thirty-one times in her home on Empire Avenue in St. John’s, her friends, family, and neighbours believe the culprit to be her abusive boyfriend, Sheldon Troke. But the evidence is circumstantial, the testimonies tainted by personal bias and attempts at deception....
| Author | Michael Hingston |
| ISBN | 1554811821 |
The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a news section run the only way self-taught journalists know how—sloppily.
Alex and Tracy are two of The Peak's editors, staring down graduation...
Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
| Author | Priscila Uppal |
| ISBN | 1771022744 |
FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
In 1977, Priscila Uppal's father drank contaminated water in Antigua and within 48 hours was a quadriplegic. Priscila was two years old. Five years later, her mother, Theresa, drained the family's bank accounts and disappeared...
A Matter of Life and Death Or Something
| Author | Ben Stephenson |
| ISBN | 1926812719 |
Short-listed for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.
The big-hearted story of a ten-year-old boy, a notebook and the meaning of the universe.
Even though he's only ten years old, Arthur Williams knows lots of things for sure. He knows all about trilobites, and...
| Author | Caroline Adderson |
| ISBN | 1590305582 |
It only takes a moment for your life to be changed forever—as the characters of this darkly comic novel discover early on. The fateful moment for the newlyweds Ross and Iliana comes with the freak automobile accident that leaves Iliana paralyzed, Ross grief-stricken, and both of them struggling...
| Author | Ian Brown |
| ISBN | 0307362876 |
From the author of the award-winning The Boy in the Moon comes a wickedly honest and brutally funny account of the year in which Ian Brown truly realized that the man in the mirror was actually...sixty.
Sixty is a report from the front, a dispatch from the Maginot Line that divides the middle-aged...
| Author | Steven Price |
| ISBN | 0887627374 |
Acclaimed Canadian poet Steven Price has conjured a stunning debut novel that explores what we ask from each other, and how much we are prepared to give.
Set in the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Into That Darkness opens at the moment when a massive earthquake hits the entire west coast...
| Author | D.W. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0670065749 |
Set in the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, Once You Break a Knuckle tells stories of good people doing bad things: two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy’s death; a heartbroken young man refuses to warn his best friend about an approaching car; sons challenge...
| Author | Lynn Coady |
| ISBN | 1770893083 |
Winner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe's Top 10 Books of 2013.
With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable...
| Author | Tamas Dobozy |
| ISBN | 1771022043 |
Winner of the 2012 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction
In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World War. By February, the siege was over,...
| Author | Billie Livingston |
| ISBN | 0307359883 |
From award-winning writer Billie Livingston, an unsparing novel of loyalty and survival that is fierce, sharp and funny even when it's breaking your heart.
The child of two con artists, 16-year-old Sammie Bell always prided herself on knowing the score. But now she finds herself backed...
| Author | Constance Beresford-Howe |
| ISBN | 0771093306 |
First published in 1973, The Book of Eve has become a classic. When Eva Carroll walks out on her husband of 40 years, it is an unplanned, completely spontaneous gesture. Yet Eva feels neither guilt nor remorse. Instead, she feels rejuvenated and blissfully free. As she builds a new life for herself in...
| Author | Alexander MacLeod |
| ISBN | 1897231946 |
This was the day after Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfield’s ear. You remember that. It was a moment in history – not like Kennedy or the planes flying into the World Trade Center – not up at that level. This was something much lower, more like Ben Johnson, back when his eyes were that thick, yellow...
| Author | Don Gillmor |
| ISBN | 0307360725 |
In middle age, debt has become the most significant relationship in Harry Salter's life. He was born to wealthy parents in leafy and privileged Rosedale, at a time when the city was still defined by its WASP elite. But nothing in life has turned out the way Harry was led to expect. He's unsure of his place...
| Author | Donna Morrissey |
| ISBN | 0670066052 |
For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her younger self leads her back through a past devastated by lies and secrets. The story opens in Halifax in 2009, travels back to the French Shore of Newfoundland during the mid-thirties and the heyday...
| Author | Johanna Skibsrud |
| ISBN | 0393073750 |
In the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author Johanna Skibsrud’s new book, nine loosely connected and hypnotic stories introduce an unforgettable cast of characters. A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that the man is someone...
| Author | Joan Thomas |
| ISBN | 0771083920 |
A stunning character-driven novel about the human desire to do the right thing, and the even stronger desire to love and to be seen for who we truly are. Deeply felt, sharply observed, and utterly contemporary.
Liz, Aiden, and Sylvie are an urban, urbane, progressive family: Aiden's a therapist...
| Author | Carrie Snyder |
| ISBN | 1770890025 |
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book
Juliet Friesen is ten years old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height of Nicaragua's post-revolutionary war, and the peace-activist Friesens have come to...
| Author | Connie Gault |
| ISBN | 0771036558 |
A spellbinding and highly original novel that gives a new name to the Prairie Novel by one of the most exciting new literary voices in Canada. For readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Hay, and Marina Endicott.
In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala...
| Author | Lynn Crosbie |
| ISBN | 1770890033 |
From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are at once...
| Author | L.R. Wright |
| ISBN | 0770421229 |
In this, L.R. Wright's first mystery novel, we are introduced to RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg; and so begins the highly-acclaimed series featuring Karl and librarian Cassandra Mitchell.
At eighty, George Wilcox hardly expected to crown his life by committing a murder. It had happened...
