Books

Freak, Jennifer Hillier’s followup to her debut novel, Creep, is being released on August 7th, and we couldn’t resist taking a peek at it with this excerpt.

Alex, Lora and I discuss what a revelation Rachel Joyce’s debut novel is. This unassuming story has immense emotional weight without being melodramatic, and left us in tears at the end – something we weren’t quite expecting when we began reading it.

World Fantasy Award-winner Graham Joyce spins a dark, enchanted narrative in his latest book, set in the English countryside.

Mystery author Elizabeth George, whose most famed characters are the aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley and his rough-edged sidekick Barbara Havers, interestingly strays out of her genre for her top reads for summer vacation time.

Paula McLain won near universal acclaim for her novel The Paris Wife, written from the perspective of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson, about their marriage and time in tumultuous 1920s Europe. McLain shares with Chatelaine her thoughts on perfect summer reads.